Classifications

• • 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
  • A45D34/04—Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball
  • A45D34/042—Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball using a brush or the like
  • A45D34/045—Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball using a brush or the like connected to the cap of the container
• • 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
  • A45D34/04—Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball
  • A45D34/042—Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball using a brush or the like
  • A45D34/045—Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball using a brush or the like connected to the cap of the container
  • A45D34/046—Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball using a brush or the like connected to the cap of the container comprising a wiper

Definitions

• the invention relates to an applicator tip for a cosmetic product, an applicator and an associated applicator assembly.
• Applicator assemblies for a cosmetic product are known, in particular for a cosmetic product intended to be applied to the lips of a user.
• Said applicator assemblies comprise a container containing the cosmetic product and an applicator adapted to be removably attached to the container.
• the container generally comprises a body, the body comprising walls defining a reservoir in which the cosmetic product is contained, and a neck defining an opening through which the cosmetic product can be extracted.
• the applicator generally comprises a plug adapted to be attached to the neck, a rod extending from the plug and an applicator tip attached to a free end of the rod.
• the rod and the applicator tip extend inside the tank.
• the applicator is immersed in the cosmetic product contained in the reservoir.
• the known applicator tips generally have a spatula-shaped zone intended to come into contact with the lips to be made up, in particular to load them into a cosmetic product. Their flexibility is appreciated. However, said spatula-shaped zone usually allows only a local application of cosmetic product, especially on a single lip at a time.
• the present invention aims to provide an applicator tip for makeup, in a single application, the two lips of a user while maintaining a comfortable use during makeup.
• the invention relates to an applicator tip for a cosmetic product, said applicator tip comprising a fixing portion to a support rod and an application portion of said product, said application portion having at least two opposite rounded applicator faces hinged to said fixation portion and extending to a distal end of the applicator, along a main direction of longitudinal extension, said main direction.
• said rounded faces have a radius of curvature less than 6 mm
• said fixing portion comprising a sleeve, said application portion being connected to said sleeve by a flexible part, called a restriction, so that said application portion is rotatable relative to said sleeve according to at least two axes of an orthonormal coordinate system, said restriction having a rounded, substantially concave shape, especially when viewed in a plane transverse to said main direction, said rounded shape having a radius curvature less than 6mm.
• the applicator tip of the invention comprises an application part with two rounded applicator faces, said two rounded faces conferring a curved shape to the application part.
• Said application portion therefore has an extended application surface that allows application of cosmetic product to the two lips of a user, particularly from the first passage of the applicator.
• Their articulation also makes it possible to preserve the sensations of application encountered with the spatula of the state of the art.
• said application portion has a spherical shape
• said application portion has a substantially conical shape
• said restriction has a section, in particular transverse to the main direction, of substantially cylindrical shape whose diameter is at least equal to 1.5 mm,
• said diameter of said restriction is between 1.5mm and 3mm
• the sleeve has a principal direction of longitudinal extension merged with a main direction of the applicator tip, the sleeve, the restriction and the application part are molded parts,
• the sleeve, the restriction and the application part are mutually derived from material
• the restriction comprises an elastomeric material
• said elastomeric material has a hardness greater than or equal to approximately 60 Shore A
• said elastomeric material has a hardness of between about 60 Shore A and about 90 Shore A, the limits of this range being included,
• said elastomeric material is a copolymer, especially a polystyrene-b-poly (ethylene-butylene) -b-polystyrene (SEBS),
• said application portion is smooth and / or flocked
• the flocking of said application portion comprises cotton
• said applicator tip is a solid piece.
• the invention also relates to an applicator comprising an applicator tip as described above.
• an applicator comprising an applicator tip as described above.
• said rod of substantially cylindrical shape, has a diameter D, said application portion has a diameter d,
• the rod comprises a main direction of longitudinal extension coincides with said main direction of the applicator.
• the invention also relates to an applicator assembly for a cosmetic product, comprising a container comprising a body forming a reservoir intended to contain the cosmetic product, and an applicator as described above, adapted to be fixed on the container, so that the applicator tip is housed inside the tank.
• the container further comprises a neck defining an opening through which the cosmetic product can be extracted, and a wiper fixed inside said neck;
• the applicator assembly further comprises a plug adapted to be fixed on the neck, said rod extending from the plug,
• the wiper comprises a wiping orifice configured to scrape the excess cosmetic product on the applicator
• the diameter of the wiper orifice is substantially the same as that of the rod of the applicator.
• the invention further relates to said applicator assembly whose reservoir is filled with cosmetic product, said product being in particular intended for the makeup of the lips of a user.
• FIG. 1 is a front view of a first exemplary embodiment of an applicator tip according to the invention
• FIG. 2 is a view from above of FIG. 1,
• FIG. 3 is a view in longitudinal section of an exemplary embodiment of an applicator assembly according to the invention.
• FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the applicator assembly of FIG. 3;
• Figure 5 is a front view of a second embodiment of an applicator tip according to the invention.
• Figures 1 and 5 illustrate a first and a second example of applicator tip 10 for cosmetic product according to the invention.
• Said applicator tip 10 extends in a main direction of longitudinal extension, said main direction and marked X in the figures.
• said applicator tip 10 has a proximal end 13 and a distal end 16 opposite to said proximal end 13 along said main direction X.
• Said applicator tip 10 has an application portion 20, 20 '.
• Application part is understood to mean a portion of the applicator tip that is able to retain cosmetic product when it is brought into contact with, and then to restore it.
• Said application portion 20, 20 has at least two opposite applicator faces F1, F2.
• applicator face means a surface devoid of protuberances such as the protuberances of the mascara brushes used for the application of the product.
• FIG. 1 illustrates the curvature of said two faces F1, F2 of said first example in a plane containing the main direction X
• FIG. 2 illustrates the curvature of said two faces F1, F2 in a plane transverse to said main direction X (FIG. 2 is seen from above of FIG. 1).
• FIG. 5 illustrates, it, the curvature of the two faces F1, F2 of the second embodiment in a plane containing the main direction X.
• said rounded faces F1, F2 have a radius of curvature R1, R2, measured in a plane containing said main direction X and / or in a plane transverse to said main direction X, which is less than 6mm.
• Said radii of curvature R1, R2 will advantageously be equal to form a spherical application part 20, 20 ', in particular in the context of the first exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2.
• the application portion 20 ' is partially spherical. Indeed, said radii of curvature R1, R2 are advantageously equal, and not zero, over at least a portion of the height of said application portion 20 '.
• the diameter of said application portion 20, 20 ' will be, for example, of the order of 8mm.
• the application portion 20 forms a single sphere.
• said application portion 20 ' will have a substantially conical shape.
• Said substantially conical shape will advantageously comprise a spherical portion, as mentioned above.
• Said substantially conical shape may also advantageously be frustoconical.
• the distal end 16 of said shape 20 will advantageously have a rounded shape, in particular at its distal end 16, so as not to form a point.
• said frustoconical portion will have a diameter of the order of 8 mm and an angle ⁇ formed between said two applicator faces F1, F2, measured in a plane containing said main direction X, between 40 ° and 60 °, for example of the order of 50 °.
• said two radii of curvature R1, R2 may also be different, while remaining less than 6mm, to form an application portion 20, 20 'having an asymmetry of revolution.
• said application part 20, 20 has the advantage of being curved, at least partially, and of having a large application surface, on at least two faces. This is how the user will be able to make up his two lips in a single applicator tip passage 10.
• said applicator tip 10 comprises a fixing part which is here in the form of a sleeve 14.
• the application portion 20, 20 ' will advantageously be connected to the sleeve 14 by a flexible part, called restriction 30, so that the application portion 20, 20' is rotatable relative to said sleeve 14, in particular according to at least two axes of an orthonormal reference.
• This orthonormal reference is, for example, centered at a point of the main direction X.
• said two axes will be for example the axes marked Y, Z in FIG.
• the mobility of the application portion 20, 20 ' may also be in said direction X.
• Said application portion 20, 20' will then be in ball-and-socket connection with said sleeve 14 via said restriction 30.
• Said restriction 30 will have a rounded shape, substantially concave, between said sleeve 14 and said application portion 20, 20 ', especially when it is observed in a plane transverse to the main direction X (see Figure 1).
• Said rounded shape here has a radius of curvature r30 of the order 6mm. This radius of curvature r30 may be close to 6 mm without departing from the scope of the invention.
• Said radius of curvature may advantageously be less than 6mm.
• this radius of curvature may be close to 1 mm, 2mm, 3mm, 4mm, 5mm or 6mm as mentioned above.
• the restriction 30 will advantageously comprise an elastomeric material, in particular an elastomer whose hardness will be greater than or equal to approximately 60 Shore A.
• a hardness of less than 40 Shore A would result in an application portion 20 , 20 ', issued from material with said restriction 30, whose touch is sticky, unpleasant.
• a hardness less than 60 Shore A would cause it to lengthen the restriction 30 until it breaks during the use of said applicator tip 10.
• said elastomer material will advantageously have a hardness of between approximately 60 Shore A and , about 90 Shore A, the boundaries of this interval being included.
• said elastomeric material is polystyrene-b-poly (ethylene-butylene) -b-polystyrene (SEBS).
• said restriction 30 will have a section, in particular transverse to the main direction X , of substantially cylindrical shape whose diameter d30 will be at least equal to 1.5mm.
• said diameter d30 of said restriction 30 will advantageously be between 1.5mm and 3mm; it may for example be substantially equal to 2mm, 2.5mm or 2.7mm.
• FIG. 3 illustrates an applicator assembly for a cosmetic product, comprising a receptacle 50 comprising a body 51 forming a reservoir intended to contain the cosmetic product, and an applicator comprising a tip 10 such as that which has just been described.
• Said applicator is adapted to be fixed on the container 50, so that the applicator tip 10 is housed inside the reservoir. It is thus immersed in the cosmetic product marked 80 in said Figure 3.
• Figure 3 also illustrates the sleeve 14 assembled with a rod 40 of the applicator.
• Said rod 40 allows, among other things, a manipulation of said applicator tip 10. More specifically, the applicator comprises a plug 70 adapted to be handled by the user and said rod 40 advantageously extends from the plug 70.
• said plug 70 is formed of a head 71 made of material with the rod 40, and a cap 72 mounted by force and held in position on said head 71 of stem 40 using internal counter-forms intended to cooperate with shapes formed on said head 71.
• Said cover 72 is rigid. The term "rigid”, not deformable neither at atmospheric pressure, nor at a pressure exerted by the fingers of a user. It is with the aid of said cover 72 that the user manipulates the applicator of the invention, in particular because said cover 72 prints the movement that the user gives to the head 71 of the rod 40, which itself transmits this movement to the sleeve 14 with which it is assembled.
• Said cap 70 is intended to be removably attached to a neck 52 belonging to the container 50 (see Figure 3 for the assembled version and Figure 4 for the exploded version).
• said sleeve 14 and said rod 40 each have a substantially cylindrical shape and a principal direction of longitudinal extension coincides with said main direction X.
• the assembly between the sleeve 14 and said rod 40 is a recess.
• the applicator tip may be overmoulded on or through the rod.
• Figure 4 is an exploded view of the applicator assembly of Figure 3. Said Figure 4 illustrates said container 50 in detail.
• said neck 52 comprises an opening through which the cosmetic product can be extracted, and a wiper 60, intended to be fixed inside said neck 52.
• the wiper 60 comprises a wiper orifice 61 configured to scrape the excess cosmetic product on the rod 40 and on the applicator tip 10 as they pass through it.
• the wiping orifice 61 is advantageously of cylindrical shape; this choice is not limiting and any other form of orifice 61 may be chosen for the wiper 60 without departing from the scope of the invention.
• the diameter d61 of said wiping orifice will advantageously be chosen in relation to the diameter D of the rod 40 and of the applicator tip 10 from which it scrapes the surplus of embedded product.
• the diameter D of said rod is comparable to the diameter of the application portion 20, 20 '.
• the application portion 20, 20 'here having a spherical shape and therefore a diameter d, said two diameters D, d are advantageously connected by the following formula: 0.89 - 3 ⁇ 4 ⁇ 0.99 .
• the diameter D of the rod 40 may be equal to 8.25 mm and the diameter d of the application portion 20, 20 'spherical, to 8 mm. This means, in addition, that the diameter D of the rod will be substantially the same, or even substantially greater than that of the application portion 20, 20 '.
• the diameter d61 of the wiper orifice 61 is substantially the same as that of the rod 40. This has the advantage of little scraping the product on the applicator tip 10, and in particular of little scrape the product on the application portion 20, 20 'of said applicator tip 10.
• the applicator assembly is designed so that the spin of the application portion 20, 20 'is optimized during its extraction from the container 50.
• the cosmetic product that the application portion 20, 20 'is able to embark is scraped in an optimized manner by the wiper 60 through which it passes during its extraction from said container 50.
• the invention advantageously relates to an said applicator assembly whose reservoir 50 is filled with cosmetic product, said product being in particular intended for the makeup of the lips of a user.
• Said application portion 20, 20 ' may be smooth. It should be noted, as an alternative not excluded from the invention, that said application portion 20, 20 'has a flocking f on its surface (see Figure 3), said flocking f including cotton. According to another variant, said application portion 20, 20 'may comprise grooves, particularly shallow, in particular from 200 to 300 micrometers.
• Said flocking f allows a better retention of cosmetic product and a softer feel.
• the diameter of the application portion 20, 20 'provided with said flocking f may be equal to 10 mm, for example.
• said applicator tip 10 is advantageously a solid piece.
• said applicator tip 10 will have a height h10 of the order of 22 mm (see FIG. 4) measured between its proximal ends 13 and distal ends 16, along the main direction X.
• said applicator tip 10 will have a height h'10, of the order of 12.5mm (see Figure 3) when assembled to the rod 40.
• the sleeve 14 of said applicator tip 10 is no longer visible because embedded in said rod 40, in particular at the free end thereof.
• the applicator tip 10 visible then consists of said restriction 30 and said application portion 20, 20 'and it is the height of these two elements, measured along the main direction X, which is of the order 12.5mm.

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