EP0740913B1 - Dispositif de conditionnement et d'application d'un produit de maquillage - Google Patents

Dispositif de conditionnement et d'application d'un produit de maquillage Download PDF

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EP0740913B1
EP0740913B1 EP96400946A EP96400946A EP0740913B1 EP 0740913 B1 EP0740913 B1 EP 0740913B1 EP 96400946 A EP96400946 A EP 96400946A EP 96400946 A EP96400946 A EP 96400946A EP 0740913 B1 EP0740913 B1 EP 0740913B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D34/00—Containers or accessories specially adapted for handling liquid toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. perfumes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D40/00—Casings or accessories specially adapted for storing or handling solid or pasty toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. shaving soaps or lipsticks
    • A45D40/26—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball
    • A45D40/262—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball using a brush or the like
    • A45D40/265—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball using a brush or the like connected to the cap of the container
    • A45D40/267—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball using a brush or the like connected to the cap of the container comprising a wiper

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  • the present invention relates to the field of accessories for make-up and, more specifically, a conditioning device and applying a makeup product such as mascara.
  • a section narrowing is formed in the body for wringing the applicator element when the applicator is removed.
  • the makeup product is present in the body under the form of an elongated block with a blind or through axial recess into which the application element enters. Because of this obviously, the amount of mascara in the body is low relative to the interior volume of the latter. Part not negligible of it is also unusable because the mascara has tend to stick to the side walls or the bottom of the body and cannot be collected by the applicator.
  • a device comprising a rigid tubular body open at one end, suitable for contain in an interior space the makeup product, and a applicator capable of being housed in said body, this applicator comprising a rod provided at one end with an applicator element of make-up product and attached to its other end with a gripping element constituting at the same time a cap capable of close the opening of the body in which the element is engaged of application, a narrowing of section being further formed in said body for wringing the application element during removal of the applicator.
  • This application device comprises a flexible, elastically deformable pocket delimiting said space inside and able to contract gradually as you go measure of the decrease in the amount of product contained in the poached.
  • the section narrowing is constituted by a valve which tightly insulates the inside of the pocket after removing the applicator.
  • Such a device presents the risk of damaging the element application, either by passing the valve, or by crushing by the pocket walls when the pocket has contracted after the departure of a certain quantity of product.
  • Application DE-A-2 558 833 describes a device comprising a bottle and wringing tube extending almost the entire height of said bottle for wringing out the application element.
  • a decompression vent is provided in the upper part of said tube.
  • the tube has a seal at its lower end seal to tighten the rod.
  • This device does not allow the wringer tube to be used for scrape the stem of the applicator when it leaves said bottle, because the vent decompression would then cease to be operational.
  • the fact that the wringer extends over substantially the entire height of the bottle with a seal at its end makes the device relatively expensive.
  • the object of the present invention is to propose a new packaging and application device remedying aforementioned drawbacks.
  • This device is of the type comprising a rigid tubular body open at one end, capable of containing in an interior space the makeup product, and an applicator capable of being housed in said body, this applicator comprising a rod provided at one end with a element for applying makeup product and integral with its other end of a gripping element constituting at the same time a cap capable of closing the opening of the body in which is engaged the application element, a narrowing section being further formed in said body for wringing the element application when removing the applicator, the packaging and application comprising a movable wall at least partially delimiting said interior space and capable to move in response to a change in pressure in said space caused by removal of the applicator.
  • said movable wall is subjected externally at atmospheric pressure at least when using the device.
  • said space interior communicates with the exterior through said narrowing in section after removal of the application element.
  • said wall mobile is able to move when the applicator retracts to avoid the appearance of an overpressure in said space interior.
  • said movable wall is constituted by a flexible pocket.
  • a space is provided between the external surface of the flexible pouch and the internal surface of the rigid body for allow an expansion of the pocket during the re-entry of the applicator.
  • said movable wall consists of a piston mounted with a possibility of sliding in said body.
  • said movable wall consists of a deformable bottom attached to the end of the body rigid located opposite the insertion opening of the applicator.
  • the packaging and application device 1 in accordance with a first embodiment of the invention, shown in the Figures 1 to 3, comprises an elongated tubular body 2 open to a end 3 and made of a rigid material.
  • This body 2 receives internally an elongated and flexible tubular pocket 4, intended for contain the makeup product.
  • Pocket 4 is closed to a axial end and it is fixed at its other axial end, open, on a nozzle 5 internally traversed along the axis longitudinal of the body 2 by an internal channel 6.
  • the end piece 5 is provided externally on its periphery with a flange 7 forming radially projecting outwards and to be fixed on the edge end 3 of body 2.
  • the packaging and application device 1 comprises an applicator 8 comprising an application element 9 to be introduced by one end 10 in the body 2, and extended at the other end by a rod 11 secured to a threaded cap 12 serving both gripping part and plug to close the body 2.
  • This cap 12 is screwed onto a thread 13 formed on the nozzle 5 and comes in axial abutment at the end of this screwing against the flange 7.
  • the application element is then housed in the pocket 4 and the rod 11 crosses the inner channel 6.
  • the section of the latter gradually narrows in approximation of the body 2. It becomes minimal at the free end an annular lip 14 defining a narrowing of section 15 used to spin the application element 9.
  • the diameter of this section narrowing 15 is also suitable for achieving a scraping of the rod 11 when the makeup product is fluid.
  • An orifice 16 whose role will be explained below is formed in the bottom of the body 2, opposite the end 3. This orifice 16 is advantageously closed for storage, before use of the device 1, by a removable cover 17, for example a plastic tablet.
  • the flexible pocket 4 constitutes a movable wall defining inside the body a space 18 containing the makeup product (not shown for the sake of clarity of the drawing) and whose volume may vary in response to pressure variation caused by the removing the applicator 8.
  • Pocket 4 is capable deform as shown in Figure 3 with crushing its side walls to compensate for the depression caused by the displacement of the rod 11 and of the applicator element 9, so that the latter's crossing of the narrowing of section 15 occurs without emission of suction noise or projection or accumulation of makeup product at the end of the element 9, unlike the devices of the prior art.
  • the deformation of the pocket 4 makes it accessible to the application element 9 9 the makeup product which has remained glued to the side walls.
  • the amount of product that can be taken up by the application element 9 is thus increased by compared to the devices of the prior art.
  • the rigid body 2 can be produced by assembling two half-shells 2 a , 2 b , as illustrated in FIG. 4, or by fitting a bottom 2 c into a rigid tube 2 d open at its two axial ends, as shown in Figure 5.
  • the body is assembled after mounting in one of the half-shells of the flexible bag 4 with the nozzle 5.
  • an annular free space 19 is provided between the external surface of the pocket 4 4 and the internal surface of the body 2 to allow the pocket 4 to expand inside the body 2 when the applicator is retracted, as illustrated in FIG. 6.
  • This deformation of the pocket 4 makes it possible to avoid the appearance of an overpressure in the interior space 18, which would be capable of projecting product onto the rod 11 after the cross-section by the application element of the narrowing of the section used for wringing out. the application element.
  • the flexible pocket 4 can be made of a material plastic chosen so that it returns to its original shape after starting from the application element 9.
  • the flexible pocket 4 can be made of complex or metallized materials such as a set polyester-aluminum-polyethylene, or polyester-ceramic-polyethylene, or polyester-aluminum powder-polyurethane-polyethylene.
  • the end piece 5 can be formed by molding with the pocket 4.
  • Figures 7 to 10 show four examples of pocket creation.
  • the pocket 4 is produced by a injection molding technique, dipping technique or electrostatic deposition technique. Pocket 4 on its free edge an annular bead projecting radially towards the outside and intended to be interposed axially between the edge end 3 of body 2 and end piece 5 when assembling the device 1.
  • the pocket, referenced 4 a , and the end piece, referenced 5 a constitute a single piece.
  • the narrow section 15 is formed by an inward fold of the wall connecting the bag 4a and the tip 5a. The latter is produced by an injection molding technique and the pocket 4 a by a blow molding technique. The narrow section 15 is formed by blow molding with the bag 4a.
  • the pocket, referenced 4b , and the end piece, referenced 5b also constitute a single piece.
  • the bag 4 b is produced by an extrusion technique and the nozzle 5 b is produced by an injection molding technique.
  • the bottom 21 of the pocket 4b is closed by welding.
  • the section narrowing 15 is formed by the free end of an annular lip 22.
  • the pocket, referenced 4 c is produced by winding a plastic sheet and welding at 23 the longitudinal edges of the latter.
  • the bottom 24 is produced by welding.
  • the end piece is identical to that, referenced 5, previously described with reference to Figures 1 to 3.
  • the end edge of the pocket 4 c rests against the flange 7 and it is welded to the base of the annular lip 14 of the '' tip 5.
  • the flexible pocket may have a cross section circular, elliptical or other. It is possible to perform on this folds to increase and / or orient its deformability.
  • FIGS. 11 and 12 in cross section, two pockets having a section overall rectangular with one of the folds 28 respectively located on the long sides of the section and on the other, longitudinal folds 29 respectively located on the short sides of the section.
  • the bottom of the bag is fixed to the rigid body 2, which promotes deformation towards the inside the side walls 25 of the bag 4 d when removing the applicator 8.
  • the bottom of the bag 4 d is fixed in the example described by cooperation of shapes between an appendage 26, extending the bottom of the pocket 4 d in the direction opposite to the end piece 5, and an annular rib 27 radially projecting inwards on the internal surface of the body 2.
  • an armature 31 intended to limit the magnitude of the inward deformation of the side walls of the pocket, to avoid crushing of the applicator element 9 by the latter when the applicator 8 is removed.
  • This frame 31 is in the example described a spiral frame with spaced turns, fixed at an axial end to the nozzle 5.
  • the pocket referenced 4 e
  • the pocket can deform axially along the longitudinal axis of the body 2 through the formation of a bellows 32 near its bottom.
  • the bellows 32 deploys (to take the shape indicated in broken lines) and compensates for the overpressure by increasing the internal volume from the pocket.
  • the bellows 32 folds back on itself to reduce the interior volume of the pocket and compensate for the depression caused by the withdrawal of the applicator.
  • All the exemplary embodiments which have just been described have the orifice 16 formed in the body 2, to make communicate with the outside the space between the surface internal body and the external surface of the pocket, in order to permanently maintain at atmospheric pressure.
  • This orifice 16, located in the bottom wall of the body 2 is advantageously closed during storage by the cover 17 as previously explained.
  • the body 2 then constitutes with the pocket a double barrier sealing, favorable for long-term preservation of the product of makeup in the pocket.
  • a flexible seal 33 is attached to the end edge 3 of the rigid body, referenced 2 e , and a vent 34 is formed in the annular gap located between the periphery of the seal 33 and the external surface of the pocket, referenced 4 f .
  • This vent 34 communicates with the outside the space between the outer surface of the pocket and the inner surface of the rigid body 2 e .
  • the cap 12 is applied to the seal 33 and isolates the vent 34 from the outside.
  • the seal 33 fits on the rigid body 2 e as shown in Figure 16. It is pierced at its center 35 for the passage of the pocket 4 f .
  • a thread 36 is formed on the pocket 4 f outside of the rigid body 2 e for the screwing of the cap 12.
  • the section narrowing 15 is formed at the free end of an annular lip 37 integral with a sleeve 38 added in the opening of the pocket 4 f .
  • This sleeve has at one axial end a flange 39 which is applied to the edge of the pocket 4 f .
  • FIG. 17 the flexible bag is eliminated and the elongated rigid body, referenced 2 f , is provided, at its axial end opposite the opening for introducing the applicator, a deformable bottom comprising a bellows 40.
  • the latter is fixed at an axial end 41 on the body 2 f and it is closed at the other axial end by a base 42.
  • a partition 43 advantageously isolates during storage the space 44 inside the bellows 40 from the inside 45 of the rigid body containing the makeup product.
  • This partition 43 is constituted in the example described by an aluminum membrane.
  • the base 42 is provided with a point 46 housed inside the bellows 40 during storage, directed towards the partition 43, and capable of fracturing the latter during the first use of the device. To do this, the base 42 is brought closer by the user to the rigid body 2 f until perforation of the partition 43 by the point 46.
  • the body 2 f has a neck 47 externally threaded for screwing the cap 12.
  • a sleeve 48 is fixed in the neck 47. It is provided at one axial end with a flange 48 applying to the edge of the neck 47 and at the other end with an annular lip 49 curved inward and whose edge free defines the narrowing of section 15.
  • the withdrawal of the applicator 8 causes a retraction of the bellows 40 which makes it possible to maintain the atmospheric pressure in the space 45.
  • the return of the applicator causes an expansion longitudinal of the bellows 40 which reduces or cancels the overpressure in the space 45.
  • a piston 50 mounted with a possibility of sliding inside the rigid body 2.
  • This piston 50 then delimits two spaces of volumes variables inside the body 2, one referenced 51 communicating with the outside through hole 16 and the other, referenced 52, containing the makeup product and receiving the applicator 8.
  • a depression or an overpressure in space 52 caused by withdrawal or the introduction of the applicator 8 causes a displacement of the piston 50 along the longitudinal axis of the body 2, respectively towards the right and left in Figure 18, which restores almost instantly, by modifying the volume of space 52, the atmospheric pressure in the latter.
  • the invention makes it possible to avoid the emission of noise of suction when removing the applicator, remedies the problem accumulation of makeup product at the end of the element application and increases the amount of product recoverable by the applicator with respect to known devices.

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