Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
  • B44D—PAINTING OR ARTISTIC DRAWING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PRESERVING PAINTINGS; SURFACE TREATMENT TO OBTAIN SPECIAL ARTISTIC SURFACE EFFECTS OR FINISHES
  • B44D3/00—Accessories or implements for use in connection with painting or artistic drawing, not otherwise provided for; Methods or devices for colour determination, selection, or synthesis, e.g. use of colour tables
  • B44D3/04—Paint boxes
• • 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
  • A45D33/00—Containers or accessories specially adapted for handling powdery toiletry or cosmetic substances
  • A45D33/006—Vanity boxes or cases, compacts, i.e. containing a powder receptacle and a puff or applicator
• • 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
  • A45D33/00—Containers or accessories specially adapted for handling powdery toiletry or cosmetic substances
  • A45D33/006—Vanity boxes or cases, compacts, i.e. containing a powder receptacle and a puff or applicator
  • A45D33/008—Vanity boxes or cases, compacts, i.e. containing a powder receptacle and a puff or applicator comprising a mirror
• • 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
  • A45D40/22—Casings characterised by a hinged cover
• • 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
  • A45D40/24—Casings for two or more cosmetics

Definitions

• the present invention relates to an improved housing especially for makeup product.
• a housing of the type comprising a body in which is housed a support for carrying a container.
• the body comprises at least one container forming a cup containing the makeup product.
• the makeup product may be taken in particular by means of a brush accessory.
• This brush is generally stored in a recess in the support, next to the bucket, so that in the case body, the bucket arrangement spaces and brush storage, are juxtaposed.
• the dimensions of the depression and the brush are limited by the size of the bucket. These dimensions are even smaller than the number of buckets carried by the support is high.
• the invention aims in particular to provide a housing of the aforementioned type may contain one or more accessories of dimensions as large as possible to optimize their ergonomics.
• the subject of the invention is a housing of the aforementioned type, characterized in that the support separates, in the housing body, a space intended for the arrangement of the container from a space intended for the storage of at least an accessory, the arrangement space covering, at least partially, the storage space, and in that the support comprises at least one orifice intended to be at least partially covered by the container, this orifice forming an access for a means of separating the container from the support.
• the dimensions of the accessory are independent of the number and dimensions of the cups contained in the housing.
• the dimensions of the accessory can be as large as allow those of the housing body containing this accessory.
• the invention makes it possible to separate an empty bucket from the support on which it is fixed, even if this bucket is glued and / or difficult to grasp.
• the access ports for separating means form means facilitating the separation of the buckets from the support, which are masked by the buckets which cover them and which are invisible from outside the housing.
• the means of the invention facilitating the separation of the buckets from the support does not detract from the aesthetics of the case.
• the storage space communicates with the separation means access port; the separation means access port is flush with a face of the support bearing support for the container;
• the support comprises several separation means access orifices.
• the storage space has a plurality of compartments each communicating with a corresponding user access port and each forming a storage space of a corresponding accessory; the compartments are delimited by partitions integral with the support;
• the support comprises a plate, generally plate-shaped, carried by a base, each access port of separation means being formed in the plate, the partitions being integral with the base and substantially perpendicular to the plate;
• the support comprises a platen, generally plate-shaped, each separating means access opening being formed in the plate, the support forming a drawer slidably mounted in the body between a recessed position in the body and a projecting position in which a user can use her finger as a means of separating the container from the support;
• the body comprises at least one access port of a user to the storage space;
• the body comprises a shutter for closing the user access orifice, this drawer being intended to be connected, preferably by means of releasable means, to one end of a corresponding accessory, so that the accessory carries the drawer;
• the housing comprises a hinged flap on the body for closing the user access port
• the storage space is provided with a storage drawer, wherein the accessories are intended to be housed, slidably mounted in the body between a retracted position in the body and a projecting position of access to the accessories;
• the accessory is intended for the use of a container's contents;
• the container is a cup containing a makeup product;
• the accessory is a brush or make-up pencil;
• the housing comprises a cover, articulated on the body, provided with a mirror and lighting means of the mirror preferably comprising a light guide extending, at least partially, along the contour of the mirror.
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a housing according to a first embodiment of embodiment of the invention, this housing being in an open configuration;
• FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of the housing shown in Figure 1;
• Figure 3 is a partially exploded perspective view of the housing shown in the preceding figures
• Figure 4 is a perspective view of an end of an accessory that can be stored in the housing shown in the previous figures
• FIG. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of the support housed in the body of the housing shown in the preceding figures;
• FIG. 6 is a perspective view, with a tear, of a housing according to a second embodiment of the invention, the housing being in an open configuration
• Figure 7 is a top view of a housing according to a third embodiment of the invention, the cover of this housing being open;
• FIGS. 8 and 9 are side views of the housing of Figure 7, in two configurations of use, respectively.
• FIGS. 1 to 5 show a case for makeup products according to a first embodiment of the invention, designated by the general reference 10.
• the casing 10 forming a makeup cabinet, comprises a body 12 on which is hinged a cover 14.
• the body 12 has a generally elongate shape delimited by a bottom 12F, two longitudinal edges 12L and two transverse edges 12T.
• the lid 14 is articulated on a longitudinal edge 12L of the body so as to be pivotable about a geometric axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal edges 12L
• the longitudinal dimension of the housing 10 can reach or exceed 14 cm.
• the transverse dimension of the housing 10 can reach or exceed 5.5 cm.
• the housing 10 is intended to contain a plurality of containers, only some of which are shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. These containers form buckets 16A, 16B, 16C each containing a makeup product.
• the buckets 16A to 16C each have a parallelepipedal general shape.
• the volumes of the buckets 16A to 16C may be different. However, it will generally be preferred that the heights of the buckets 16A to 16C be identical.
• the buckets 16A to 16C are carried by a support 18 housed in the body 12. More particularly, the buckets 16A to 16C are housed in a depression 19 of the support 18. The contour of the depression 19, substantially rectangular, is delimited by edges of the support 18 intended to participate in the longitudinal and transverse positioning of the buckets 16A to 16C on the support 18.
• the support 18 comprises a plate 20, in the general form of perforated plate, carried by a base 22.
• the contour of the depression 19 is delimited by the plate 20 and the base 22.
• the bottom of the depression 19 is delimited by the plate 20 of generally rectangular shape.
• the buckets 16A to 16C are carried by the plate 20 and removably fixed to this plate 20, for example by means of adhesive means arranged between the buckets 16A to 16C and the plate 20 or means of wedging the buckets 16A to 16C between them.
• depression 19 may contain various arrangements of buckets depending on the dimensions of these buckets.
• the plate 20 comprises several orifices 24 covered, at least partially, by the bottom of the cups 16A to 16C.
• the orifices 24 each form an access for a tool for separating the buckets 16A to 16C from the plate 20.
• the box deserves to be preserved, it is possible to replace the empty bucket 16A to 16C with new full buckets.
• the orifices 24 each have a generally rectangular shape and are aligned in several rows substantially parallel to the longitudinal 12L and transverse edges 12T of the body.
• the orifices 24 are flush with the face 20F of the plate forming a bearing face for the buckets 16A to 16C.
• the support 18 separates, in the housing body 12, a space G of the arrangement of the buckets 16A to 16C (see FIG. 1) of a storage space R extending between the bottom 12F of the body and the plate 20 of the support (see Figure 3).
• the base 22 forms a spacing spacer of the plate 20 relative to the bottom 12F of the body.
• the layout space G covers, at least partially, the storage space R.
• This space R is intended for the storage of at least one accessory intended, preferably, for the use of the contents of the cups.
• the space R is intended for the storage of three accessories forming makeup brushes P1, P2, P3.
• at least one of the accessories could form a makeup pencil.
• the accessories P1 to P3 can be changed so as to have the accessories best suited to the use of the contents of the buckets.
• the storage space R communicates with the orifices 24 formed in the plate.
• the storage space R comprises several compartments each forming a storage space of a corresponding accessory P1 to P3.
• the storage space R comprises three compartments C1, C2, C3.
• the compartments C1 to C3 are delimited by partitions 22A, 22B, 22C, 22D secured to the base 22.
• These partitions 22A to 22D extend substantially parallel to the longitudinal edges 12L of the body and substantially perpendicular to the plate 20.
• each accessory P1 to P3 are independent of the number and dimensions of the cups 16A to 16C contained in the arrangement space G.
• the dimensions of an accessory P1 to P3 can be as large as those of the compartment allow. C1 to C3 containing this accessory.
• the length of the accessories P1 to P3 can reach or exceed 12 cm. This relatively large length allows good handling of accessories P1 to P3.
• the compartments C1 to C3 each communicate with a corresponding user access port 26A, 26B, 26C formed in a transverse edge 12T of the housing body.
• Each orifice 26A to 26C forms an access for a user to a corresponding compartment C1 to C3.
• two user access ports 26A, 26C are formed in a first transverse edge 12T and a user access port 26B is formed in the second transverse edge 12T.
• each brush P1 to P3 comprises a handle provided with a distal end bearing bristles and a proximal end, opposite the previous one, carrying a drawer T1, T2, T3.
• This drawer T1 to T3 is intended to close the user access port 26A to 26C communicating with the compartment C1, C2, C3 in which is housed the accessory P1 to P3.
• the drawer T1 to T3 is connected to the proximal end of the handle of the brush P1 to P3 by releasable connecting means 27, for example screw type or bayonet. These releasable means 27 allow the brush change P1 to P3.
• these drawers T1 to T3 each comprise a recess 28 capable of receiving the nail of a user's finger (see FIG. 4). .
• the drawers T1 to T3 each also comprises two recesses 30, 32 facilitating their gripping between the thumb and the index of a user.
• the cover 14 is provided with a mirror 34 and electrical means 36 lighting this mirror.
• the lighting means 36 comprise a light guide 38 connected to a conventional light source powered by a not shown electric battery.
• the light guide 38 extends, at least partially, along the contour of the mirror 34.
• the mirror 34 having a generally rectangular shape, the light guide extends along three edges delimiting this mirror.
• FIGS. 1 to 3 also show a switch 40 for controlling the switching on and off of the lighting means 36.
• one of the accessories P1 to P3 can be extracted from their corresponding storage compartment C1 to C3 according to the type of cup 16A to 16C. that we want to use.
• a user access port 26A is released to 26C by extracting one of the accessories P1 to P3 from the corresponding C1 to C3 compartment.
• a conventional tool L is introduced through the released user port 26A to 26C and a tool access port 24 covered by the bucket 16A to 16C to be replaced, such as is shown in Figure 5.
• a tool access port 24 covered by the bucket 16A to 16C to be replaced such as is shown in Figure 5.
• the tool access orifices 24, communicating with the compartments C1 to C3, form means, facilitating the separation of the buckets 16A to 16C from the support 18, which are masked by the buckets which cover them and are invisible from the outside of the case.
• the means of the invention facilitating the separation of the buckets 16A to 16C with the support 18 do not affect the aesthetics of the housing.
• the access by a user to the compartments C1 to C3 and thus to the storage space R is via a common orifice 41 formed in the body 12.
• L User access port 41 is closable by means of a flap 42 articulated on the body 12 around a geometric axis substantially orthogonal to the axis of articulation of the cover 14 on the body 12.
• the flap 42 is movable between a closed position of masking compartments C1 to C3 and accessories they contain, and an open position as shown in Figure 6, allowing access through the hole 41 to the compartments C1 to C3 and accessories P1 to P3.
• FIG. 7 to 9 there is shown a case for makeup products according to a third embodiment of the invention.
• elements similar to those of the preceding figures are designated by identical references.
• the support 18, comprising the plate 20 forms a slidably mounted slide in the body 12 substantially parallel to the bearing face 20F of the plate.
• the support 18 is movable between a position embedded in the body 12 as shown in Figure 8 and a projecting position as shown in Figure 9. In this protruding position of the support 18, a user can replace an empty bucket 16A to 16C by exerting pressure with his finger DG, through an access port 24 of the plate 20, on the empty bucket.
• the storage space R is provided with a storage drawer T4 in which the accessories are housed. P1 to P3.
• This drawer T4 is slidably mounted in the body 12 substantially parallel to the bearing face 20F of the plate.
• the storage drawer T4 is movable between a retracted position in the body 12 as shown in Figure 9 and a projecting position for access to the accessories P1 to P3 as shown in Figures 7 and 8.
• the housing 10 according to the third embodiment of the invention may comprise a single drawer among the support 18 forming a drawer and the storage drawer T4.
• the housing 10 can be equipped with various buckets and accessories, the latter can be changed in particular according to the habits and tastes of users.

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