EP1454561B1 - Applicateur et dispositif de conditionnement et d'application comportant un tel applicateur - Google Patents

Applicateur et dispositif de conditionnement et d'application comportant un tel applicateur Download PDF

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EP1454561B1
EP1454561B1 EP04290577A EP04290577A EP1454561B1 EP 1454561 B1 EP1454561 B1 EP 1454561B1 EP 04290577 A EP04290577 A EP 04290577A EP 04290577 A EP04290577 A EP 04290577A EP 1454561 B1 EP1454561 B1 EP 1454561B1
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Jean-Louis Gueret
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10D—STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10D3/00—Details of, or accessories for, stringed musical instruments, e.g. slide-bars
    • G10D3/14—Tuning devices, e.g. pegs, pins, friction discs or worm gears
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B9/00—Arrangements of the bristles in the brush body
    • A46B9/02—Position or arrangement of bristles in relation to surface of the brush body, e.g. inclined, in rows, in groups
    • A46B9/021—Position or arrangement of bristles in relation to surface of the brush body, e.g. inclined, in rows, in groups arranged like in cosmetics brushes, e.g. mascara, nail polish, eye shadow
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46D—MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES
    • A46D1/00—Bristles; Selection of materials for bristles
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10G—REPRESENTATION OF MUSIC; RECORDING MUSIC IN NOTATION FORM; ACCESSORIES FOR MUSIC OR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. SUPPORTS
    • G10G7/00—Other auxiliary devices or accessories, e.g. conductors' batons or separate holders for resin or strings
    • G10G7/02—Tuning forks or like devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B2200/00—Brushes characterized by their functions, uses or applications
    • A46B2200/10—For human or animal care
    • A46B2200/1046—Brush used for applying cosmetics
    • A46B2200/1053—Cosmetics applicator specifically for mascara
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B2200/00—Brushes characterized by their functions, uses or applications
    • A46B2200/10—For human or animal care
    • A46B2200/1046—Brush used for applying cosmetics
    • A46B2200/1053—Cosmetics applicator specifically for mascara
    • A46B2200/106—Cosmetics applicator specifically for mascara including comb like element

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  • the present invention relates to applicators for cosmetic products, including care products, and more particularly applicators intended for applying a product to keratinous fibers, in particular eyelashes or eyebrows.
  • Conventional brushes used for makeup eyelashes or eyebrows comprise a metal core consisting of two twisted strands and bristles that are caught between the twists strands. Such brushes are not suitable for passage in a microwave oven to change properties of the product, prior to application, for example. In addition, vis-à-vis certain compositions, the bristles are too soft to properly smooth the product on the eyelashes.
  • combs for makeup eyelashes or eyebrows by molding plastic material.
  • plastic material makes the combs suitable for passage in a microwave oven.
  • the comb can be made with stiffer teeth than brush bristles, which allows different formulas to be used. Nevertheless, the lack of flexibility of the teeth can cause a lack of comfort to the application.
  • the invention aims to provide a new applicator for the application of a cosmetic product, especially on keratinous fibers, in particular eyelashes or eyebrows.
  • the invention also makes it possible to produce a simple and comfortable applicator to be used, making it possible to obtain a good spread of the product on the fibers to be treated, a substantial elongation and a bending of the fibers.
  • An application element made according to the invention still makes it possible to use, where appropriate, a microwave oven for heating the product to be applied while having the advantages of a mascara brush, particularly in terms of comfort. to the application.
  • the applicator has attached bristles, i.e. separately manufactured bristles, upstream of the applicator manufacturing process, and then implanted on the applicator, during the manufacture of the carrier or after fabrication of the last.
  • the first row of bristles may have a number of bristles which is substantially equal to the total of the hairs of the second and third rows.
  • the second and third rows of bristles may or may not include substantially the same number of bristles.
  • the first row of bristles preferably extends outside the support, but alternatively the first row of bristles may not open out of the support.
  • the second and third rows of bristles may each comprise a succession of tufts leaving the support by respective separate orifices.
  • the first row may comprise a substantially continuous layer of bristles or a succession of tufts leaving the support by separate orifices.
  • a tuft of bristles may be constituted for example from 2 to 200 bristles, preferably from 4 to 100 bristles, and more particularly from 5 to 50 bristles.
  • the division of the pile bundle to form the second and third rows can take place inside the support or outside of it.
  • the second and third rows of bristles may extend on the same side of the support relative to a geometric separation surface containing the axis longitudinal of the support, in particular a surface perpendicular to a median plane, and the first row of the opposite side.
  • the bristles may be held on the support other than by overmolding the material of the support on the bristles. These can be maintained on the support, for example by local melting of material.
  • the bristles may be made of a material identical to or different from the material forming the support.
  • the support can be made with various shapes and in particular with at least one row of teeth.
  • the teeth may be made of the same material as the support or alternatively in another material, for example by bi-injection molding of material.
  • the teeth may in particular be made of a softer material than that of the part of the support carrying the bristles.
  • the largest dimension of the support, in a plane perpendicular to its longitudinal axis, is for example less than or equal to 5 mm.
  • the tufts of bristles of the second row may be disposed substantially at the same level as the tufts of bristles of the third row, along the longitudinal axis of the bristles. support.
  • the tufts of second row bristles may be axially offset from the tufts of third row bristles.
  • the applicator may then comprise a succession of tufts of bristles extending alternately in two divergent directions.
  • the applicator may comprise tufts of bristles originating from the division of the bundle of bristles that open through openings located respectively on two opposite faces of the support or, alternatively, on one and the same face, the openings being for example aligned or arranged in staggered rows. .
  • these teeth may for example be arranged in at least one row extending between two rows of bristles, in particular between the second and third rows.
  • the longitudinal axis of the support may be rectilinear or, in a variant, curvilinear, in particular substantially in the form of a portion of an arc adapted to the radius of implantation of the eyelashes on the eyelids.
  • the apparent length of the bristles of at least one row may vary along the longitudinal axis of the support and in particular vary continuously through a single extremum, for example a maximum or a minimum, or periodically vary so that the envelope surface defined by the free ends of the bristles has corrugations along the longitudinal axis of the support, when the latter is observed from the side.
  • the applicator may include orifices through which the bristles leave the support which have axes which are perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the support.
  • the orifices may have axles directed obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the support, for example alternately towards its distal end and towards its proximal end, so that the bristles cross when the support is viewed from the side.
  • the support material may be a rigid, semi-rigid or elastomeric plastics material.
  • the invention further relates to a packaging device and application comprising an applicator having at least one of the embodiment of the features defined above.
  • This device may comprise a container containing the product to be applied and a wiper member for dewatering the applicator element at its outlet from the container.
  • the applicator element may be attached to one end of a rod whose other end is integral with a gripping member which also constitutes a cap for closing the container.
  • the packaging and application device 1 shown in FIG. figure 1 comprises a container 2 containing a product P to be applied to the eyelashes or eyebrows, for example mascara, and an applicator 3 comprising a rod 4 provided at its lower end with an applicator element 5 and at the opposite end of a gripping member 6 also serving to close the container 2.
  • the latter comprises a neck 7 which is externally threaded, so as to allow the gripping member 6 to be screwed on.
  • the product P can be used to color the eyelashes and / or to lengthen and / or curl them.
  • the product P can still have a treating effect.
  • a wiper member 8 is fixed inside the neck 7 to dewater the rod 4 and the application element 5 at their outlet from the container.
  • This wiper member 8 comprises for example a flexible lip 9 defining a circular orifice whose diameter corresponds substantially to that of the rod 4.
  • wiping members comprising a block of foam and / or defining one or more slots, flocked or not.
  • the rod 4 is rectilinear but it could be curved without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • rod 4 is shown as being fixed relative to the gripping member 6, but it could be movable relative to the latter, for example by means of an articulated connection, in particular a ball joint.
  • the applicator element 5 comprises a plastic support 15, elongate along a longitudinal axis X which is, in the example considered, rectilinear and coincident with the longitudinal axis of the rod 4.
  • the support 15 carries a bundle of bristles 20 which, in the example described, emerges from one side of the support 15 in the form of a first row 50 and which splits into two parts emerging from the support 15 on the opposite side under the second and third form rows 30 and 40.
  • the support 15 is overmolded on the bundle 20 of bristles but alternatively the support 15 could be made separately, then the bristles placed in it and assembled to the support 15 by local melting of material, for example.
  • the rows 30 and 40 open through openings respectively on two opposite faces 31 and 41 of the support 15. figure 2 that the rows 30 and 40 are located on the same side of a geometric separation surface S containing the X axis and the first row 10 of the opposite side.
  • Each of the rows 30 or 40 of bristles may extend out of the support 15 by a single opening, elongate oblong shape parallel to the axis X or, as is the case in the example, by a succession of respective openings 32 and 42 each allowing the output of a tuft of bristles.
  • the number of bristles of each row 30 or 40 corresponds in this example to half the number of bristles in row 50, but the application element could be made differently without departing from the scope of the present invention and the one of the rows 30 and 40 could include substantially more hair than the other row, the division of the hair bundle being performed in a ratio other than 50/50.
  • the bristles of the first row 50 have a non-zero height but it is not beyond the scope of the present invention when the bristles of the row 50 have a substantially zero height, as shown in FIG. figure 3 , the bristles of this row 50 being for example shaved after the molding of the support 15. The bristles of the first row 50 may still not lead out of the support.
  • the support 15 can be made with a shape different from that shown in FIGS. Figures 1 and 2 and in particular with at least one row of teeth 60 extending between the rows 30 and 40 of bristles, as illustrated in FIGS. figures 4 and 5 .
  • the support 15 can be made with a tip 16 at one end, intended to be inserted into the rod 4.
  • the application element can be made, whatever its shape and whatever the implantation of the bristles, in one piece by molding material with the rod 4.
  • the division of the bundle of bristles 20 can take place inside the support as is the case on the Figures 2, 3 and 5 , or outside the support 15, in particular near its outer surface, as illustrated in FIG. figure 6 .
  • figure 7 differs from that of the figure 6 in that the height of the bristles of the first row 50 is substantially zero.
  • the support may have, in cross section, various forms other than that shown in FIGS. Figures 2 and 3 , and in particular a substantially circular section, for example.
  • the rows 30 and 40 may extend along divergent Y and Z planes, which may be parallel to the longitudinal axis X, when the latter is rectilinear.
  • the Y and Z planes can, as we see on the figure 2 , be symmetrical with respect to a median plane M of symmetry for the support 15.
  • the axis X can be contained in this median plane M.
  • the planes Y and Z may not be arranged symmetrically with respect to the median plane M for the support 15, as has been illustrated in FIG. figure 9 .
  • the angle ⁇ between the planes Y and Z can be between, for example, 3 and 90 °, for example being close to 40 °.
  • the application element 5 comprises three rows 30, 40 and 50 of bristles, but it is not beyond the scope of the present invention when the application element comprises more than three rows of bristles, for example four rows of bristles.
  • an applicator element which comprises two bundles 20 and 20 'of bristles which divide so as to form two rows 30 and 40 for the bundle 20 and two rows 30' and 40 'for the bundle 20'.
  • the rows 30 and 30 ' can be joined together within the same table, as can the rows 40 and 40', as illustrated.
  • the support 15 may optionally be made with a row of teeth 60.
  • the bristles of the rows 30, 40 and 50 may be grouped into tufts or extend in substantially continuous layers.
  • each tuft 33 or 43 of one of the rows 30 or 40 may be situated substantially at the same level, along the X axis, as a tuft of the tuft.
  • another row that is to say without any offset along the X axis, as can be seen on the figure 4 .
  • the tufts 33 and 43 can also be shifted along the X axis, as illustrated in FIG. figure 11 .
  • the support 15 has not been shown.
  • the bristles of the rows 30 and 40 may extend in the form of substantially continuous plies along the X axis.
  • the tufts 33 and 43 may still, where appropriate, lead to substantially aligned orifices 32 and 42, as illustrated in FIG. figure 13 , the axes of these orifices being for example perpendicular to the axis X.
  • the bristles of rows 30 and 40 may extend substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis X.
  • the tufts of bristles 33 and 43 and the axes of the corresponding orifices 32 and 42 may be respectively inclined towards the proximal end of the applicator element 5 and towards its distal end, so that when the applicator element is observed from the side, the tufts of hair 33 and 43 intersect.
  • the envelope surface defined by the free ends of the bristles of the application element 5 can be given various shapes, depending in particular on the zone to be treated and the effect that it is desired to obtain.
  • the bristles of the applicator element 5 can be machined so that the ends of the bristles of the row 50 extend along a concave line L towards the outside when the applicator element is observed from side, as illustrated on the figure 15 .
  • the curvature of the line L may for example correspond substantially to that of the eyelid.
  • the support 15 may be made with a longitudinal axis X that is non-rectilinear, for example curvilinear, as illustrated in FIG. figure 17 , the bristles of the rows 30 and 40 leaving for example a concave or convex face of the application element 5.
  • the support 15 When the support 15 is made with teeth, they can alternate along the X axis with tufts of bristles 33 and 43, as shown in FIG. figure 18 .
  • the support may be in particular polyethylene, polypropylene or an elastomer.
  • Hair with various cross sections can be used.
  • bristles having in cross-section one of the shapes represented in FIGS. Figures 19 to 36 schematically, for example a circular shape with a flat, as illustrated on the figure 19 , flattened as illustrated on the figure 20 , star-shaped, for example in the shape of a cross, as illustrated in figure 21 or three branches as shown on the figure 22 , U-shaped as shown on the figure 23 , of H as shown in figure 24 , of T as illustrated in figure 25 , from V as shown in figure 26 .
  • the hairs can be hollowed out, with a shape for example circular, as shown in FIG. figure 27 , or prismatic, especially square, as represented in figure 28 .
  • the hairs can form branches, for example in the form of a snowflake, as illustrated in FIG. figure 29 .
  • the bristles may have a prismatic section, for example triangular, as illustrated in FIG. figure 30 , square as shown in figure 31 , hexagonal as shown in figure 32 , or an oblong shape, especially lenticular as shown in FIG. figure 33 or hourglass-shaped as shown in the figure 34 .
  • bristles having at least one capillary groove 65 as illustrated in FIG. figure 36 .
  • the hairs used can be treated or not.
  • the bristles may in particular undergo a treatment intended to form at their end a ball 66 as illustrated in FIG. figure 37 or forks 67 as shown in the figure 38 .
  • Flocked hairs can be used as illustrated in figure 39 or else bristles made by extrusion of a plastic material having a charge of particles 68, for example to confer a microrelief on the surface of the pile, as illustrated in FIG. figure 40 or imparting to them magnetic, bacteriostatic, slip-enhancing or other properties.
  • the bristles may still be wavy hairs as illustrated in figure 41 or have undergone a heat treatment to give them a curved shape, as shown in figure 42 .
  • the bristles of an application element 5 may not all be of the same kind and length.
  • bristles whose cross section fits in a circle of diameter between about 6/100 th of mm and about 30/100 th of mm, and preferably between 8/100 th of mm and 20/100 th of mm.
  • the apparent length of the bristles may be between about 0.5 mm and about 20 mm, and preferably between 1 mm and 10 mm.

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