EP2471410B1 - Applikatoreinrichtung, insbesondere für einen Mascaraapplikator - Google Patents

Applikatoreinrichtung, insbesondere für einen Mascaraapplikator Download PDF

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EP2471410B1
EP2471410B1 EP11193035.0A EP11193035A EP2471410B1 EP 2471410 B1 EP2471410 B1 EP 2471410B1 EP 11193035 A EP11193035 A EP 11193035A EP 2471410 B1 EP2471410 B1 EP 2471410B1
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    • 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
    • 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
    • A46B9/025—Position or arrangement of bristles in relation to surface of the brush body, e.g. inclined, in rows, in groups the bristles or the tufts being arranged in an angled position relative to each other
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B9/00—Arrangements of the bristles in the brush body
    • A46B9/06—Arrangement of mixed bristles or tufts of bristles, e.g. wire, fibre, rubber
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46D—MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES
    • A46D1/00—Bristles; Selection of materials for bristles
    • A46D1/02—Bristles details
    • A46D1/0253—Bristles having a shape which is not a straight line, e.g. curved, "S", hook, loop

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  • the invention relates to an applicator device according to the preamble of claim 1, an applicator comprising the applicator device and an application unit comprising the applicator device.
  • a cosmetic applicator which has bristles that can have a corrugation.
  • This document relates to both nail varnish applicators, such as nail polish brush as well as on cosmetic applicators, such as mascara applicators. It is also known to produce these bristles together with a core of the applicator by way of injection molding. The aim of such an applicator is specified to make possible cosmetic products with different viscosities in a satisfactory manner orderable.
  • a combing apparatus for applying eyelashes makeup having curved bristles.
  • These curved bristles are arranged in the form of a single row on the core of the applicator or in the form of exactly two provided opposite rows of bristles or rotationally symmetric bristles.
  • US 2002/020424 A1 discloses a Mascaraapplikator whose bristles have a change of curvature.
  • the object of the invention is to provide an applicator device which is suitable for forming a cosmetic applicator, in particular for applying mascara.
  • special for applying mascara is suitable.
  • the mass storage capacity for cosmetic composition should be improved and, despite a stripping process usually carried out when removing the cosmetic applicator from a mascara container, sufficient mascara mass should still remain on the applicator.
  • the mascara mass should be distributed as evenly as possible on the applicator.
  • the applicator device should be suitable for ensuring the widest possible all-round wetting of eyelashes with mascara and a curling effect by a clamping action of the eyelashes between applicators of the applicator device.
  • a further object of the invention is, in particular in a particular embodiment, to provide the all-round wetting of eyelashes with mascara composition in a particularly effective manner.
  • a further object of the invention is to produce the applicator according to the invention in a particularly inexpensive and highly reproducible manner in which high accuracy is ensured with regard to the bristle arrangement and the bristle shape.
  • Not least object of the invention is to provide an aesthetically pleasing in the unwetted state applicator, which has in some ways a spectacular appearance and a striking design.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide different application characteristics, e.g. To provide different degrees of separation or bundling effect and different pronounced separation and combing behavior of the applicator relative to the eyelashes available.
  • an applicator device in particular for a mascara applicator, which has a core from which application organs radiate radially away.
  • the applicator device is produced by means of a primary molding process, integrally formed as a plastic part and characterized in that at least partially the application organs in longitudinal extent along a longitudinal axis of the core are arranged in rows and have a central axis, the central axis of the application organs at least one corrugation with a curvature change and the central axis of a job organ is completely in a plane or spans a plane.
  • a primary molding process in the context of the invention is to be understood the making of a solid body of a shapeless material.
  • primary forming processes are all production processes in which a solid body is produced from an informal material. According to the invention, this includes all production methods from the field of plastic injection molding and in particular also a production method in the form of a 3D printing method in which an applicator device is produced by means of 3D printers from a shapeless mass. In particular, it does not relate to the primary molding process to manufacture an applicator device in the form of a built, i. composite Applikator issued with a wire core and held by this prefabricated bristles. Furthermore, according to the invention, a brush production method is also not to be understood as a primary molding method in which prefabricated bristles are subsequently used in a prefabricated core.
  • the primary molding processes according to the invention are one-, two- or multi-component injection molding processes, in particular Also to understand using various plastic raw materials.
  • Applicator devices produced in this manner can be joined together using conventional assembly methods with additional components, for example an applicator rod or the like.
  • an applicator device according to the invention in which, for example, the core is hollow and on a support mandrel, which is made of a different material, attachable, glued or otherwise mountable.
  • the applicator device may be subdivided into at least two regions along its longitudinal direction, the regions differing either with respect to the geometries of the core of the applicator device or with respect to the applicator elements, be it in terms of their spatial form or arrangement or otherwise.
  • the applicator device comprises a first region with applicators or with a core of a first type and a second region with applicators or a core of a second type.
  • the central axes of application elements of a row are arranged in a common plane, wherein optionally the plane is arranged parallel to a longitudinal axis of the applicator device, in particular contains the longitudinal axis.
  • Such an arrangement of corrugated application organs relative to the core of the applicator facilitates, in particular in the production process of the plastic injection molding, removal from the mold substantially.
  • the radially arranged application elements are distributed in such a manner as to be circumferential in that each center axes of application elements of two of the rows of opposing rows lie in a common plane.
  • a particularly uniform mass storage and order behavior is achieved if the corrugation of the central axes of the application organs of all corrugated application organs identical, i. with respect to an amplitude, a wavelength, an orientation and / or the curvature elution identical, is formed.
  • the entirepanelbesatz the applicator or at least one of the areas of the applicator is constructed of identical application elements, which in particular guarantees a uniform distribution of mass storage and application properties over the area having such application elements. This is especially true when the corrugated application organs are all identical.
  • the core is tapered and formed in this case, the bristle of the first and second area, in particular the geometric space shape of the application organs, be identical, since the conical design of the Applicator is ensured to the free end by a taper of the core.
  • conical design of the applicator to the distal end of the core in an end region of the applicator, e.g. in a second area identical to the first area, e.g. is cylindrical or continued, wherein in the second region anquestorganbesatz of a second type is present, which has no corrugation and in which decreases the radial longitudinal extension of the application organs away from the core to the distal end of the applicator.
  • the application organs in the second region may be, for example, conical bristles, discs, disc sections, teeth or the like.
  • a particularly high storage capacity with regard to the mascara mass adhering to the applicator is achieved if the application members of a first row are offset in the longitudinal direction of the applicator with respect to applicator members of adjacent rows. Particularly uniformly, this property can be formed distributed over the surface of the core, if they are arranged offset in such a way that the application elements of one row are arranged approximately centrally between the free gaps of second applicators another, adjacent row.
  • the applicator device can be designed such that the application organs of the first region have a corrugation and the application organs of the second region are not corrugated, but simply curved.
  • the application organs are made of a different, in particular softer plastic than the core.
  • This embodiment can be produced well in particular in the two-component injection molding process.
  • Preferred geometric dimensions of the applicator elements are characterized in that tangents are corrugated at central axes
  • Order organs in the foot of the applicator member include an angle ⁇ to the longitudinal axis of the applicator, in particular, an angular range of 30 ° ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ 90 °, in particular 50 ° ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ 70 ° has proven.
  • the order organs from the foot of the application organs towards the free end of the application organs are tapered, in particular tapered.
  • a relatively stifféesselementfuß Scheme can be achieved, which bends slightly during stripping and thus reservoir volume for mascara mass is provided sufficiently.
  • applicators of the second type may be tapered bristles, teeth, discs, washers or disc segments or grooves.
  • convex portions of the curved applicators of adjacent rows touch each other in a side view or at most have a spacing smaller than a diameter of an eyelash to be applied with mascara.
  • a clamping effect by although spaced, but in a side view almost touching order organs achieved and thus the eyelash is taken on both sides by order organs, so that a nearly complete 360 ° -Wennetzung can take place.
  • Such a clamping effect causes by clamping gripping and clamping slipping along the application organs on the eyelashes also a desired curling effect, ie a bending forms of the eyelashes when applying the mascara mass.
  • applicator elements are provided with convexly facing curved applicator sections, it is advisable to arrange the applicators of adjacent rows in the longitudinal direction of the applicator closer together than the applicators of adjacent rows, which face each other with their concavely curved sections. In this way, it is achieved that in each case two applicator elements of adjacent rows form a corresponding applicator element pair, which has convexly curved, mutually facing sections for improved wetting of the eyelashes with mascara.
  • the corresponding applicator member pairs are preferably arranged in rows in the circumferential direction around the core of the applicator, an imaginary center plane between the applicator members respectively forming the respective applicator members preferably being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the applicator.
  • free ends of the applicator members forming an applicator member then expediently point in different directions with respect to the longitudinal axis of the applicator.
  • This can for example be designed such that a free end of a first application member Towards the distal end, whereas the second free end of the second applicator member to the handle of the applicator, ie to a proximal end of the applicator has.
  • an applicator in particular a cosmetic applicator having an applicator device according to the invention.
  • the invention includes an applicator unit, in particular a cosmetic unit, which has an applicator device according to the invention.
  • Such cosmetic units usually have a container for cosmetics, in particular for mascara mass, and a handle, which is on the one hand with the applicator in conjunction and on the other usually serves as a screw cap for the container.
  • a handle which is on the one hand with the applicator in conjunction and on the other usually serves as a screw cap for the container.
  • FIG. 1 A first embodiment of an applicator device 1 according to the invention is shown in FIG FIG. 1 shown.
  • the applicator device 1 has a core 2 and a proximal end 3 and a distal end 4.
  • the proximal end 3 is formed in a conventional manner for arranging the applicator device 1 on an applicator handle (not shown).
  • a handling unit such as a screw cap of a cosmetic unit (not shown).
  • the distal end 4 is a free end.
  • the core 2 as well as the applicator 1 as a whole has a longitudinal axis L, which at least in the embodiment according to FIG. 1 is the axis of symmetry of the applicator device.
  • the applicator device 1 has a first region B 1 with applicators 5 of a first type and a second region B 2 with applicators 6 of a second type.
  • the application members 5 of the first type are formed as corrugated bristles 5, which are explained in more detail below.
  • the commission organs 6 of the second type are exemplified as substantially conically from the core 2 radially outgoing bristles formed.
  • the applicator 1 is integrally formed by means of a primary molding process, for example as an injection molded part or as a 3D printing part of the same plastic or in a two- or multi-component process of two or more different plastics, preferably the core 2 of a harder plastic and the Application organs 5, 6 are formed of a softer plastic.
  • the core 2 is designed to be cylindrical throughout in the areas B 1 and B 2 in order to make the applicator device 1 conically tapering towards the distal end 4, the application members 6 are made shorter and shorter at the free end, so that a cladding surface spanned by the application members 6 tapered conically towards the distal end 4.
  • the application organs 6 are formed as straight bristles.
  • the core 2 may also have other geometric spatial forms.
  • the core 2 may also have a crowned, i. concave convex outward spatial form or a constricted, for example, concave inwardly extending spatial form.
  • the core 2 can also be designed to be cylindrically stepped in sections, for example, along its longitudinal extent.
  • the application organs 5 are in the embodiment according to the FIG. 1 such that all free bristle ends 8 point in the direction of the distal end 4.
  • the application organs 5 and the application organs, 6 are each in rows R 1 , R 2 , R 3 ... R n along a longitudinal direction 100, which is aligned parallel to the longitudinal axis L, arranged. Seen in the circumferential direction U, the application organs 5 and 6 are also arranged in rows R I , R II , R II ... R xx .
  • the application organs 5, 6 essentially radiate radially from the core 2.
  • two longitudinal directions 100 of adjacent bristles have a longitudinal spacing d between the bristle feet, wherein the distance d is in each case formed as an intersection point of a center axis M of an application member described below through an outer side of the core 2.
  • the distance d is defined between longitudinally 100 two such puncture points.
  • the application organs 5, 6 of two adjacent rows R 1 , and R 2 are offset by the distance 1 ⁇ 2 d, arranged in the longitudinal direction 100.
  • Each of the applicator elements (bristles) 5 leaves the outside of the core 2 and is inclined at an angle ⁇ to the free end 4.
  • the angle ⁇ is in the FIGS. 1 ff. Pledged for reasons of simplification relative to the longitudinal axis L.
  • the free ends 8 The bristles 5 are inclined at an angle ⁇ against the outer side of the core 2 and against the longitudinal axis L and also have - as already described - towards the free end 4.
  • An axial length in the longitudinal direction 100 of the region B1 with an application organ set of application elements 5 of the first type is more than half the total length of the regions B1 and B2, which have a bristle facing.
  • the axial longitudinal extent l 1 of the region B 1 is 50% to 70% of the total length of the applicator device 1, which has bristle stocking.
  • the area B 2 extends over an axial longitudinal extent l 2 , which is correspondingly smaller.
  • the bristles 5 are corrugated, i. they have a central axis M which has the curvature 0 in at least one point or in a region and this point is an inflection point or the region is a turning region up to which there is a curvature in a first direction and from which a curvature in a second direction , Under curvature in the context of the invention is also to be understood that around a turning point a piece of straight course of the central axis M may be present (turning area). Such a bristle course would then have the curvature 0. It is essential that at a wavy bristle 5 according to the invention along the center axis M at least once the direction of curvature of the central axis M changes.
  • the bristles 5 are formed so wavy that the central axis M of a bristle 5 spans a plane, or lies in a plane. This means that each bristle 5 is two-dimensionally wavy, that is, the corrugation is arranged in a plane.
  • This plane E which is the sectional plane AA in the following FIG. 2, preferably runs exactly However, this plane E (sectional plane AA) can also be aligned substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis L, wherein under substantially parallel to the invention an angular deflection of the plane E by an angle ⁇ of up to +/- 10 ° to the longitudinal axis can take place.
  • the center axes M can at least partially extend beyond the plane E (AA) and thus to a lesser extent effect a three-dimensionally curved formation of the application organs 5, if and as far as this is possible in terms of manufacturing technology.
  • the invention is thus expressly not limited only to two-dimensionally curved applicators 5 in one plane, but also includes three-dimensionally curved corrugated applicators 5 within the limits of manufacturability.
  • the manufacturing limits are in this case in particular produced by the injection molding process, with which the applicator devices are preferred as far as the tool design of the injection molding tool is concerned.
  • the applicators 5 as well as the applicators 6 preferably have a greater thickness in the region of the bristle foot 7 and taper towards the bristle end 8.
  • the application organs 5, 6, in particular the application organs 5, may have a cross-section that is circular in any cross-section perpendicular to the central axis M, oval or else triangular or polygonal. Also conceivable is a polygonal cross-section with grooves, grooves or the like along the course of an applicator member 5, 6 in the outer region.
  • the free bristle end 8 of a bristle 5 is inclined at an angle ⁇ to the longitudinal axis L.
  • the application member 5 has the central axis M, which is formed by the two-dimensional focal points of cuts through the bristle 5 along its longitudinal course from the bristle foot 7 to the bristle end 8 out.
  • the central axis M has a turning point W, in the vicinity of which the curvature of the central axis M changes.
  • a tangent T through the inflection point W intersects the longitudinal axis L at an angle ⁇ .
  • values of 30 ° to 90 °, in particular values of 50 ° to 70 ° have been found to be positive.
  • the angle ⁇ is preferably smaller than the angle ⁇ or equal and is in the range between 10 ° and 90 °, in particular between 40 ° and 70 °.
  • the course of the central axis M away from the bristle foot 7 can also run at least piecewise, so that e.g. over a distance s which, for example, goes off the bristle foot 7 a bit, the curvature 0 is present, i. the central axis M forms a straight piece.
  • an applicator 5 according to the applicator according to the invention has a point of inflection W, so that along the course, for example from Bristle 7 to the inflection point W a curvature with a first sign is present and from the inflection point W through to the bristle end 8 a curvature with opposite Sign exists.
  • the central axis M of the applicator member 5 in the region between the bristle 7 and the inflection point W is less curved than in the region between the inflection point W. and the free bristle end 8.
  • the curvature may be constant in the areas between the bristle foot 7 and the inflection point W and / or in the region between the inflection point W and the free bristle end 8 or may change continuously, possibly also suddenly.
  • the change of the curvature from a first sign to the opposite sign is continuous, ie without bending radius jumps.
  • FIG. 2a a further embodiment of an applicator member of the applicator device according to the invention is shown.
  • the free end 8 of the job organ according to FIG. 2a designed to the core 2 indicative and forms the applicator member 5 through a gap S 1 .
  • an eyelet, an eyelet-like loop 200 is formed, which may optionally serve as a mascara reservoir further away from the core 2.
  • the gap S 1 at least individual eyelashes can enter into the loop 200 when applying mascara mass, for which then a particularly good all-round wetting result can be achieved.
  • the size of the gap S 1 which may be preferably a few 10-th to a few millimeters, for example 0.1 mm to 2 mm, in particular 0.1 mm to 1.0 mm, can also be ensured if appropriate, eyelash bundles enter the loop 200. In this case, a special bundling effect can be achieved.
  • FIG. 2b shows a further embodiment of an application member of the applicator device according to the invention.
  • the tangent T through the point of inflection W encloses an angle ⁇ 'with the longitudinal axis L, wherein the angle ⁇ ' may be in the range between 0 ° and 90 °, in particular between 25 ° and 75 °.
  • the angle ⁇ ' the angle ⁇ FIG. 1 and is in contrast arranged in mirror image.
  • Suitable and preferred values for the angle ⁇ ' are in the range between 10 ° and 90 °, in particular between 40 ° and 70 °.
  • the applicator 1 according to FIG. 3 represents a further embodiment and differs from the embodiment according to FIG. 1 in that the core 2 in the region 2 to the distal end 4 is tapered conically.
  • the core 3 in the region B 1 is cylindrical.
  • Thelaunchorganbesatz the applicator 1 according to Figure 3 is consistently of the type 1, so that all order organs corrugated bristles 5, which preferably have identical geometrical spatial form with each other. Characterized that the core tapers conically in the area B 2 , the applicator 1 can be formed conically tapered as a whole to the free end 4, although the application organs 5, ie the corrugated bristles 5 all have the same spatial shape. That related to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 to the bristle geometry said applies to according to this embodiment. Likewise the length and distance indications of the rows R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R I , R II , R III as well as the lengths l 1 , l 2 as well as d and s.
  • FIGS. 4, 4a A further embodiment of the applicator device 1 according to the invention FIGS. 4, 4a , in which FIG. 4a the applicator device according to FIG. 4 in a longitudinal sectional view shows.
  • the core 2 is continuously formed cylindrical up to the free end 4. So that a conical tapering of the envelope is ensured towards the free end 4, the corrugated application organs 5 are conically cut to the free end 4 and thus shortened along its longitudinal axis M. Such shortening may take place following an injection molding process by cutting or grinding. However, it can also be provided that the shortened outlet of the applicator elements 5 toward the free end 4 in the injection molding tool, i. already provided in the master mold.
  • FIGS. 5 and 5a A further embodiment of the applicator device according to the invention is shown in FIGS. 5 and 5a ,
  • This applicator device is based on a basic arrangement of the application organs 5 according to the FIGS. 4 and 4a out.
  • the order organs 5 are formed shortened towards the free end 4. It comes along over the entire length of the bristle l 1 + l 2 cylindrical core used.
  • the order organs 5 adjacent rows R 1 , R 2 , R 3 are each arranged rotated by 180 ° to each other, so that the order organs 5 a row R 1 leave an upper side of the core 2 in the direction of the free end 4 and also their bristle ends 8 to towards the free end 4.
  • Application organs 5 of an adjacent row R 2 are arranged exactly the other way around and leave the upper side of the core 2 in FIG Direction to the proximal end 3 out. Their free bristle ends 8 also point towards the proximal end 3.
  • reservoir volumes V R are formed in the region of a core 2.
  • the reservoir volumes V R are essentially surrounded by convexly curved bristle sections B A1 of adjacent bristles 5 facing away from each other, these areas B A1 and B A2 belonging to bristles of adjacent rows R 1 , R 2 , R 3 .
  • Concave areas B A3 and B 4 B of adjacent bristles 5 which are curved towards one another are situated outside the respective turning points W or turning areas and thus form a side view according to FIGS. 5, 5a a funnel-shaped, tweezer-like eyelash catching and / or bundling device.
  • a good 360 ° round wetting is achieved for the eyelashes, so that a good transfer of mascara to the eyelashes or eyelash bundles takes place.
  • the bristles of adjacent rows R 1 and R 2 are preferably of identical construction and are arranged on the core 2 only offset by 180 ° with respect to the longitudinal direction 100.
  • the geometric spatial shape of the order organs of adjacent rows R 1 , and R 2 form differently.
  • such an applicator device 1 in turn has a cylindrical core 2 in the region B 1 and a conically tapered core 2 in the region B 2 to the free end 4.
  • the stocking of areas B 1 and B 2 with order organs corresponds to that of the example described above FIGS. 5, 5a , So there are each order organs 5 adjacent rows R 1 and R 2 in the opposite direction Bezgl.
  • FIG. 7a Another embodiment of the applicator device 1 according to the invention combines in the area B 1 the bristle facing according to the embodiments 5 and / or 6 with the bristle facing in the area B 2 of the embodiment according to FIG. 1 ,
  • the free ends 4 in contrast to the illustrated and described embodiments, on the free end face have a bristle trim / a trim with applicators organs.
  • Such applicators can of course also have the above-described corrugation essential to the invention.
  • Thistheorganbesatz on the face of the distal end 4 can of course be accomplished with already known order organs other geometric space forms.
  • regions B 1 and B 2 can be present in the longitudinal direction, which have different application organ trimmings.
  • a row I of corrugated application organs 5 exist, whereas an adjacent row II, for example, consists of a serrated or otherwise comb-like web.
  • order organs may be present in the series II, the conical, pointed-skeletal or form cylindrical bristles. These order organs can also be validated among each other.
  • an applicator device has at least one applicator element 5 with a corrugation, as set forth in claim 1.
  • the stocking of the other applicator devices can be filled with order members of another type.
  • order organs are known from the prior art in many ways. Representative of this are cylindrical, conical bristles, discs, disc segments, grooves or the like.
  • these application organs are also preferably connected as integral as possible with the core 2, so that the applicator device 1 by means of a primary molding process, in particular, e.g. can be produced by means of a plastic injection molding process (also 2- or multi-component method) as well as by means of a three-dimensional printing process.
  • an applicator device which is characterized in that the application organs 5 from the foot 7 of the application organs 5 taper towards the free end 4 of the application organs 5, in particular tapered are formed.
  • corresponding order organ pairs are arranged in the circumferential direction U around the core 2 of the applicator 1 in rows R I , R II , R I-II , wherein an imaginary center plane between the respective corresponding order organ pairs forming application organs. 5 preferably perpendicular to the longitudinal axis L of the applicator 1 stands.

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