EP1284111B1 - Lipstick holder - Google Patents

Abstract

A lipstick container has an outer case (10). The case has a slide-lift with a finger operated button projecting through a vertical slit (11) in the container front face. The button moves a flexible plastic strip to raise and lower the lipstick.

Description

The invention relates to a utility container for a cosmetic pencil, such as a lip balm, with a sleeve-shaped container housing open at one end, which has in its wall a slot extending in the axial direction, through which a slide switch is guided to the outside, with a within the container housing slidably arranged train and pressure tape is connected, which has at one end a socket for receiving the cosmetic stick and the other end serves to seal the container housing, and arranged in the container housing means by which the tension and compression band within the container housing in a Loop is deflected by 180 °.

Utility containers for cosmetic sticks consisting of the actual container and a mechanical device for conveying the cosmetic stick out of the container for use are known in various embodiments and mechanisms. Emphasis is placed on safe storage of the cosmetic pen when not in use, ease of use for the use of the cosmetic pen and a simple and cost-effective production and assembly of the individual components.

Thus, in the German Utility Model G 87 07 117.7 a lipstick is described with a arranged in a housing with cap make-up, in which the make-up pencil for use by means of a threaded rod can be moved out of the housing upwards. To the case To be able to use several times with new make-up pencils, the make-up pin holder is releasably connected to the housing.

From DE 197 03 140 A1 discloses a cosmetic pencil device is known, with a base attached to a cosmetic pencil, wherein the base has a central guide with an internal thread and a sleeve with a rotatably mounted pin with external thread, with the internal thread of the guide the socket cooperates to axially displace the cosmetic pencil within the sleeve.

A disadvantage of such Schraubvorrichtungen for moving the pin from the sleeve is the need to use both hands to this shift.

In order to carry out the displacement with one hand, use containers are known in which the pin or the pin socket is connected to an outwardly guided sliding switch, which can be moved to its displacement with the thumb of one hand, while the remaining fingers this Hand the container housing fixed.

Such a lipstick is known from DE 43 42 238 C1. The lipstick consists of a pin housing, a sliding mechanism for extending and retracting the pin and a cap for covering the insertion or insertion opening on the pin receiving housing. Cap and pin-receiving housing are pivotally connected to each other, wherein the cap in a pivotal position covers the insertion or insertion opening and in the other pivotal position releases this opening. The cap is designed as a holding part to which the lipstick is gripped.

Furthermore, German Offenlegungsschrift DT 2 261 892 discloses a use container for cosmetic pens in which a socket receiving the pin is attached to a flexible band which is guided in a guide device in an outer sleeve consisting of two housing halves and has a grip part. which can be gripped through a slot in the outer sleeve from the outside of the sleeve forth. The free, not connected to the socket end of the flexible band forms the closure part, so that the width of the band must correspond to the inner diameter of the sleeve. The flexible band is deflected at the bottom of the sleeve in a loop by 180 °, so that during the downward movement of the handle part of the cosmetic pen is guided upwards.

A disadvantage of this known utility container is its two-part design of the outer sleeve. When installing the use container, u. a. the two housing halves of the sleeve are brought together and the flexible band must be introduced into the guides, faults often occur when the flexible band is not exactly fitted into the guides.

From FR 663 721 A a one-piece Schminkstiftbehälter is known with a rectangular cross-section, in the container housing with upper application opening a rectangular tube with rounded bottom surface having on both sides a sliding guide, which also surrounds the rounded bottom surface, is housed as a guide body for a resilient steel strip , In this tube, a cup for receiving the make-up pin is slidably disposed and connected to one end of a resilient steel strip, which is guided by the sliding guide with a screw. At the other end of the steel strip is a through a slot of the container outwardly guided slide, which is connected to the outside of the housing via a hinge with a hinged lid to the closure of the make-up pen container. The lid is arranged and designed so that it can be used as a handle key to move the steel strip and thus the make-up pin folded down.

Finally, US Pat. No. 5,984,551 A discloses a make-up pencil container with a container housing containing an upper application opening into which a tube with a circular cross-section is introduced as a guide body for a tension and compression band. This guide body is provided at its lower end with an arcuate sliding guide The tension and compression band has at one end a socket for receiving the make-up pin and is connected at the opposite end via a hinge with a larger tab, which serves to seal the guide body on the upper opening - This while overlapping laterally - can be pushed. In contrast to FR 663 721 and the lower end of the container housing is open and has such a large opening that can be inserted from below into the container housing for mounting the guide body and the tension and compression band. After installation, this opening is closed by a lid.

Based on this known prior art, it is an object of the invention to provide a utility container for cosmetic pens, which can be operated with one hand and is so simple that a cost-effective production and safe installation results and the consumption of the cosmetic pen in a simple manner refillable.

The stated object is achieved with the characterizing features of claim 1.

The assembly of the construction elements to the ready-to-use container is quick and easy to carry out, since the tension and pressure band not in Guide elements must be adjusted. In general, the cosmetic stick is introduced into the socket only after the assembly has taken place, the delivery of the empty use container for filling with the cosmetic pencil usually taking place in a center position of the sliding button in the slot. Since the tension and pressure band below the socket between the guide body and centrally disposed on the inner wall of the container housing side webs is slidably guided over its entire length, there is no risk that the pull and pressure band when inserting the cosmetic pen in the socket can buckle due to the pressing pressure. In addition to this sliding the other parts of the tension and compression band are guided, namely the hollow cylindrical socket within the cup-shaped guide body and the remaining part of the tension and compression band with sliding and locking part after its deflection around the lower end of the guide body between the guide body and the inner wall of the container housing.

The introduction of the cosmetic pen in the version of the tension and pressure band can be done with advantage but also before the assembly of the construction elements.

The deflection of the tension and pressure band around the lower end of the guide body is advantageously supported by bottom webs, which are arranged in the bottom of the container housing and whose contour are adapted to the lower end of the guide body, so that the tension and compression band between the bottom webs and the lower End of the guide body is guided by both sides.

All guides of the tension and compression band come about only by the insertion of the guide body - with the tension and compression band - in the container housing, so that an exact fitting of the tension and compression band in example already existing guide is no longer required.

By the deflection of the tension and compression band in a loop around 180 ° around the lower end of the guide body causes the socket with the cosmetic pen moves inversely to the displacement of the sliding switch. By shifting the sliding button down so the cosmetic pen is pushed upwards out of the utility container and vice versa.

The tension and compression band is formed so long beyond the slide switch that its front tongue-shaped end can close the opening of the container housing in the displacement of the sliding switch upwards. For this purpose, a lateral slot is formed below an annular collar of the guide body, then passes through the tongue-shaped end of the tension and pressure band.

So that the tension and compression band can fulfill its intended tasks, it is made of a flexible material, preferably of a flexible material Made of plastic. The other construction elements, the container housing and the guide body, however, should be made of a stronger material, with a correspondingly suitable plastic can also be used here.

Further advantages, details and features of the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to an exemplary embodiment shown in schematic drawing figures.

Fig. 1

ein Behältergehäuse in perspektivischer Darstellung,

Fig. 2

ein Zug- und Druckband in perspektivischer Darstellung,

Fig. 3

ein Führungskörper in perspektivischer Darstellung,

Fig. 4

einen Gebrauchsbehälter in einer Seitenansicht,

Fig. 5

den Gebrauchsbehälter der Fig. 4 in einer Vorderansicht,

Fig. 6

den Gebrauchsbehälter der Fig. 4 in einer geschnittenen Seitenansicht, geschlossen,

Fig. 7

den Gebrauchsbehälter der Fig. 4 in geschnittener Seitenansicht und geöffnetem Zustand.

Show it:

Fig. 1

a container housing in perspective view,

Fig. 2

a tension and compression band in perspective,

Fig. 3

a guide body in perspective,

Fig. 4

a utility container in a side view,

Fig. 5

4 the utility container of FIG. 4 in a front view,

Fig. 6

4 in a sectional side view, closed,

Fig. 7

the utility container of Fig. 4 in a sectional side view and the open state.

In Figures 1, 2 and 3 are the perspective view of the individual construction elements, from which an exemplary container for use cosmetic pencil is put together, shown.

The container housing 10 shown in Figure 1 has at about 180 ° of its circumference a cylindrical outer surface 17, which is opposite to a substantially flat outer surface 18. In the flat outer surface 18 is a slot 11 which begins above the bottom 15 and leads to the open upper end face 14 of the container housing 10. The open end face 14 is inclined towards the axis of the container housing 10 for better handling of the cosmetic pen passing through this end face 14.

Within the container housing 10 webs 12, 13 are arranged to stabilize the container housing (webs 12) and to guide the tension and compression band 20 (side bars 13).

The tension and compression band 20 is shown in FIG. It is made in one piece from a flexible material and has at one end a socket 21 for receiving the cosmetic pencil (2, Fig. 7) and a tongue-shaped closure of the other end 23 for closing the container housing 10. Below the tongue-shaped end 23 is located a sliding switch 22 which is connected to the tension and compression band 20 via a nose (the nose is not shown), which is inserted into the slot 11 of the container housing 10, so that when inserted in the container housing 10 tensile and compressive strip 20 by this the remaining outside of the container housing 10 slide switch 22 can be moved. In Fig. 2, the tension and compression band 20 is shown as it is disposed in the assembled state within the container housing 10. The tension and compression band 20 is one Loop bent by 180 °, the slide switch 22 is in its lowest position and the socket 21 in its uppermost position. Within the reverse bend 24 is then in the assembled state, the lower end 34 of the guide body 30 which is inserted together with the tension and compression band 20 in the container housing 10.

The guide body 30 is shown in FIG. It consists of a front flat outer surface 35 with cup-shaped side surfaces 36 and a curved lower end 34. At the upper end of the guide body 30 is an annular collar 31 is arranged with a diameter of the cosmetic stick corresponding to slightly larger opening 37, in the assembled state is seated on the open end face 14 of the container housing 10 and thus reduces the opening thereof. In the area of the flat outer surface 35 is located below the annular collar 31, a slot 33 through which the tongue-shaped end 23 of the tension and compression band 20 can pass to close the opening 37 of the annular collar 31.

In FIGS. 4 to 7, the three construction elements 10, 20, 30 of FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 are joined together to form a ready-to-use container 1 for a cosmetic pencil 2. The collar 31 is usually fixed after assembly with the container housing 10, d. H. permanently connected by welding, gluing or jamming.

In FIGS. 4 and 5, in a side view (FIG. 4) and a front view (FIG. 5), the use container 1 is shown in the closed state. The sliding switch 22 is in its upper position, whereby the opening 37 of the annular collar 31 of the guide body 30 is closed by the tongue-shaped end 23 of the tension and compression band 20.

In Figure 6, which shows this closed state in a sectional side view, is the cosmetic pen 2 with the socket 21 at the lower end of the container housing 10. The guided around the lower end 34 of the guide body 30 tensile and compressive strip 20 is with the push button 22 pushed so far that their tongue-shaped end 23, the opening 37 of the annular body 31 closes. The tension and compression belt 20 is guided in this position below between the lower end 34 of the guide body 30 and the bottom webs 16 of the container housing 10 and in the region of the flat surface 18 of the container housing 10 between this surface 18 and the flat outer surface 35 of the guide body 30.

FIG. 7 shows the ready-to-use state of the use container 1. The sliding switch 22 is now moved in its lowest position, whereby the socket 21 is pushed to the very top and the cosmetic pen from the utility container out. In this position, the tension and pressure band within the container housing 10 between there centrally on the inner wall arranged side webs 13 and the side edges 32 of the guide body 30 is now additionally performed.

These tension and pressure belt leading from both sides means (bottom webs 16 - lower end 34 of the guide body 30, flat surfaces 18-35, side webs 13 - side edges 32) are only by the insertion of the guide body 30 with the tension and compression band 20 in the container housing 10 to channel-shaped guides, so that a "threading" of the tensile and compressive strip 20 as in known devices is not required.

The illustrated embodiment of a use container for a cosmetic pen represents only one possible application of the invention. With regard to the outer shape and the dimensions to be provided are quite Variations possible, but the features of claim 1, in particular with regard to the one-piece design elements and their ease of mounting in any case to obtain.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

use containers

2

pen

10

container housing

11

slot

12

web

13

side web

14

face

15

ground

16

bottom ribs

17

cylindrical outer surface

18

flat outer surface

20

Tension and compression band

21

version

22

slide button

23

tongue-shaped end

30

guide body

31

collar

32

side edges

33

slot

34

lower end

35

flat outer surface

36

cupped side surfaces

37

opening

Claims (4)

1. Use container (1) for a cosmetic stick (2), for example a lip salve stick, with a sleeve-shaped container housing (10), which is open at one end face (14) and which has in its wall (18) a slot (11), which extends in axial direction and through which a slide button (22) is led outwardly, the button being connected with a tension and compression strap (20) which is displaceably arranged within the container housing (10) and which has at one end a grip (21) for reception of the cosmetic stick (2), and with a guide body (30), which is arranged in the container housing (10) and by which the tension and compression strap (20) is deflected within the container housing (10) in a loop through 180°, wherein the slot (11) extending in the wall (18) of the container housing (10) is led up to the opening (14) thereof at the end face, so that the tension and compression strap (20) can be pushed together with the guide body (30) from above into the container housing (10) and the guide body (30) is of shell-shaped construction with a collar (31), which is matched to the cross-section of the container housing (10) and through the opening (37) of which the cosmetic stick (2) can be pushed out for application, characterised in that

   a) the use container (1) consists of three unitary constructional elements, namely firstly the container housing (10), secondly the tension and compression strap (20) with slide button (22) and grip (21) and thirdly the guide body (30),

   b) the collar (31) is annular and

   c) the guide body (30) is formed below the annular collar (31) with a lateral slot (33) which enables passage through and closure of the annular collar (31) and thus closure of the use container (1) by the tongue-shaped end (23), which is opposite the grip (21), of the tension and compression strap (20).
2. Use container (1) according to claim 1, characterised in that the tension and compression strap (20) is slidably guided between the inner wall of the container housing (10) and the guide body (30) and after its deflection around the lower end (34) of the guide body (30) is guided between the guide body (30) and lateral webs (13), which are arranged centrally at the inner wall of the container housing (10), and the grip (21) of the tension and compression strap (20) at the inner side of the guide body (30) of shell-shaped construction.
3. Use container (1) according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that base webs (16) shaped to be adapted to the contour of the lower end (34) of the guide body (30) are arranged in the base (15) of the container housing (10) and assist deflection of the tension and compression strap (20) around the lower end (34) of the guide body (30) below the tension and compression strap (20).
4. Use container (1) according to one or more of the preceding claims 1 to 3, characterised in that the tension and compression strap (20) together with its slide button (22) and its grip (21) is made of a flexible material, preferably of a flexible plastics material.

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