FR2913318A1 - Keratinous material e.g. nail, treating and product e.g. nail polish, applying assembly, has sampling and/or treating tool extending sampling and/or treating units on outer circumference of conditioning device, and reversible fixation unit - Google Patents

Abstract

The assembly (80) has a conditioning device (2) with a container (11) with an opening, where the container contains a product, and the opening is closed by a cover (12). A sampling and/or treating tool (14) extends sampling and/or treating units (81, 82) on outer circumference of the device (2). The tool has a reversible fixation unit (83) e.g. repositionable adhesive, for being fixed on the device (2). The tool has articulations between sampling and/or treatment units and the fixation unit.

Description

Set for the treatment of keratin materials and / or the application

  of a product on these keratin materials

  The subject of the present invention is an assembly which comprises jointly a device for packaging a product and a processing and / or application tool.

  In the state of the art, it is known to many devices comprising a container containing a cosmetic product, this container being closed, during the storage phases, by a closure member. Frequently, there is provided an applicator member secured to the closure member and intended to be immersed in the product contained in the container. In particular, it is known from US-2829655 a container containing a mascara, wherein is immersed a brush integral with the closure cap of the container, the closure cap further comprising an erect comb, so that the brush extends into the container while the comb is protected by overcap.

  Also known from FR-2578403 a device comprising a container containing a product to be applied to the nails, the closure member of this container being equipped with a nail file on its outer periphery.

  The disadvantage of these devices is that the file or the comb that they propose in particular can be handled only if the cap is held integral with the container, so as not to dirty hands with the product carried by the body of integral application of the closure member. The size of the container and its weight impede the easy handling of the file or the comb.

  US-5806669, a device for conditioning a shaving foam, around which a support is retained, is alternatively known, this support comprising means for receiving a razor which extends along the conditioning device.

  The disadvantage of this device is its size, but also the number of separate parts to achieve to form such a set.

  The object of the invention is to solve at least one of the problems of space and ergonomics mentioned above, by proposing an assembly for the treatment of keratin materials and or the application of a product, in particular a cosmetic product, on said keratinous materials comprising - a packaging device comprising a container containing a product intended to be applied to said keratin materials, and a closure member of said container, and - a treatment and / or sampling tool extending its processing and / or sampling means on the outer periphery of the conditioning device, the tool comprising a reversible attachment means on said conditioning device.

  The tool may extend in at least one radial component relative to the outer periphery of the conditioning device. For example, the tool may extend in a secant direction to a longitudinal axis of the packaging device. Thus even if the tool is left around the packaging device, the processing and or sampling means being preferably provided at a free end of the tool, they are easily accessible and the handling of the tool can be facilitated.

  In particular, the tool may comprise at least one articulation between the processing means and the sampling means and the fixing means. Thus, it is possible to modulate the size of the tool relative to the packaging device. It is also possible to improve the handling of the tool due to the modularity conferred by the presence of the joint. Preferably, the tool is removably mounted relative to the closure member. Thus, even when the container has a deformable wall, for example in the form of a tube, the attachment of the tool is good, since generally the closure member has a sufficiently rigid periphery to allow the mechanical attachment of the tool.

  For example, the fixing means may be configured to allow mounting radially clamping around the packaging device, or be able to cooperate with a complementary relief of the packaging device, or comprise a thread capable of cooperating with a complementary thread of the device conditioning. Alternatively, the fixing means may be a repositionable adhesive or a carabiner.

  For example, the treatment means may comprise a file, a tip, scissors, a cuticle repellent, a foam, a pliers, a knife, an abrasive surface, a polisher, a raised or spiked tip, a covered tip a woven or a nonwoven, a non-porous elastomer tip, or sintered, or foam, or a granular surface, or a comb, or a brush or a horsehair glove.

  The treatment means may also be a means for treating the product applied to a keratin material. It can in particular be configured to heat, cool, blow, massage, or spread said product.

  The sampling means may comprise a porous tip, a foam, a brush, a spatula, or a member rotatably mounted relative to the fixing means.

  In particular, the container and the sampling means can be configured in such a way that the processing and / or sampling means can not be introduced into the container. Thus, in the case where the packaging device comprises an applicator member, the user is not likely to confuse the tool with this application member.

  In particular, the packaging device may comprise an applicator member provided in communication with the product contained in the container. Thus the tool is complementary to the application member, it can in particular be used before or after the application of product, and thus avoids contaminating the tool with the product. The performance of the tool remains constant as and when the product contained in the packaging device is used. This applicator member may be integral with the closure member. In this case, it is preferably immersed in the product contained in the container, in particular in the closed position of the packaging device.

  The invention finds in particular its use when the product contained is a cosmetic product, and that the treatment means is a dedicated tool for the care of the skin, nails, and or makeup of the nails.

  "Cosmetic product" means a product as defined in Council Directive 93/35 / EEC of 14 June 1993.

  Preferably, the assembly comprises at least two separate treatment and / or sampling means. In particular, these separate means are retained on a common support, the fixing means being provided on this common support, the separate means being presented by the same tool.

  The invention will be better understood on reading the description which follows and on examining the figures which accompany it. These are presented only as an indication and in no way limitative of the invention. The figures show: FIGS. 1 to 11: side views of different embodiments of assemblies according to the invention.

  Figure 1 shows an assembly for the packaging and application of a product comprising a packaging device 2 and a tool 14. The packaging device 2 is in the form of a cylindrical pot forming a container 11 surmounted by a lid forming a closure member 12.

  The container 11 is of cylindrical cross-section and here has a diameter greater than its height along an axis X orthogonal to the plane in which the opening of the container is defined, this opening being hidden by the lid 12. For example the lid 12 is screwed on a neck of the pot. An upper surface 13 of the cover 12 is for example flat and extends perpendicularly to the axis X. The tool 14 is retained by a removable fixing means 15 on the surface 13.

  The tool 14 comprises a handle 16 and at one end 17 of the handle a means of sampling and application 18 of the product contained in the pot. For example, the handle 16 is elongate and the means 18 is here in the form of a tip made of open cell foam welded to the handle 16.

  The fixing means 15 is for example an adhesive having a face having a sufficient tack relative to the weight of the tool 14 to allow to retain it on the device 11, whatever the position in which the assembly is placed relative to the ground.

  FIG. 2 shows a partial view of an assembly 10 according to the invention made according to an embodiment different from that of FIG. 1. In particular, the container 11 is here in the form of a tube with a flexible wall and extending along a longitudinal axis X erected perpendicular to the opening formed at a neck of this tube 11. The cover 12 is here a plug for example screwed on the neck, and also stands along the axis X, in the extension of the tube 11. The tool 14 is in the form of a substrate at least partly made of an elastically deformable material, and having an opening 19. The substrate is substantially flat and extends perpendicular to the X axis, in the example shown.

  The opening 19 is of internal section slightly smaller than the external cross section of the plug 12, so that the tool 14 can be held in tight engagement around the plug 12 by radial deformation of the opening 19 around the plug 12.

  The rougher the surface condition of the substrate, the more tool 14 is configured for exfoliation and softening of the skin. On the other hand, the softer the substrate, and its smoother surface state, the more tool 14 is configured for surface cleaning of the skin. The substrate may be at least partly made of sintered foam to provide a granular surface condition to remove dead skin and smooth the skin. The skin thus prepared allows a better penetration of care products, and uniformity of applied makeup, which is advantageous, especially when the makeup product to be applied is a foundation.

  The tool 14 protrudes radially from the outer periphery of the plug 12. The opening 19 being eccentric with respect to the periphery delimited by the substrate, the portion of the tool 14 intended to be applied against the keratinous mucous membranes, and in particular the skin, radially protrudes from the plug so that the two opposite faces of this substantially plane substrate extend into the open air, and can quickly dry and thus avoid microbial growth.

  The assembly 30 according to the invention shown in FIG. 3 differs from that of FIG. 2 in that the tool 14 is differently configured so that it can be retained on the flexible outer periphery of the tube 11. In this example, the tool comprises a clamp 20 to be retained on the tube 11. This clamp comprises a loop 21 of which extend two branches 22 and 23 defining therebetween a section adapted to be mounted in tight engagement around the tube 11. The loop 21 is configured such that an external pressure exerted on it leads to separate the two branches 22 and 23 and thus allow detachment of the tool 14 relative to the conditioning device 2. In this example, one of the branches carries a configured handle to protrude radially from the tube when the tool is mounted. This handle 16 has at its free end 17 a means of treatment and or sampling 18 in the form of foam.

  Alternatively, the means 18 may be made from a woven fabric, a nonwoven fabric, an elastomer, a brush, a brush, a wheel, a spiked endpiece, a a file, a polisher, a sinter, or a nail cutter.

  FIG. 4 represents another variant of an assembly 40 according to the invention of the type of that represented in FIG. 2, in which the tool 14 comprises an open loop 24 defining an interior opening slightly smaller than that of the cross-section of the plug, so that the loop 24 allows retention tight grip around the cap.

  Here, in particular, two means 25 and 26 of treatment and or sampling of a different nature are provided to protrude radially from the open loop 24, forming a common support for these two means. They constitute respectively a keratinous mucosal treatment function that can be performed during or after the application of the product, or as many organs for sampling and spreading the product on these mucous membranes.

  FIG. 5 is another variant of an assembly 50 according to the invention of the type of that represented in FIG. 3, in which the tool 14 comprises a closed loop force-fitted around the body of the tube 11, and comprising two means 27 and 28 sampling and spreading of the product on the keratinous mucous membranes. In this example, the two means 27 and 28 are diametrically opposed, and are respectively mounted at the end of handles such as 16 each having a hinge 31 and 32 so that the means can be extended along the X axis and thus limit the overall size of the assembly. The joints 31 and 32 are for example film hinges formed in the sleeves 16. The sleeves such as 16 are for example connected to the closed loop 29 forming a common support.

  FIG. 6 shows an assembly 60, representing a variant of FIG. 1, in which the fastening means is configured in the form of an open loop intended to engage tightly around the cover 2, and from which several tools such as 14 respectively forming processing means and or sampling. In particular, these means being regularly distributed over the outer periphery of the loop which then forms a common support 61 having said fixing means.

  FIG. 7 represents an assembly 70 according to the invention comprising a device for conditioning a nail polish comprising a glass receptacle surmounted by a stopper 12 from which an applicator member 71 intended to be immersed in the product contained in the container 11. The container 11 surmounted by its cap has an elongated shape along an axis X, the plug has an end transverse to this axis X on which is retained by gluing an abrasive surface 72, forming a tool such as 14, intended for file the end of the nails before applying the product. This abrasive surface is in the form of a removable pad, which can be discarded when it is worn, and replaced by another pad itself also removable. The abrasive surface provided with its repositionable and removable adhesive is the tool 14 associated with the conditioning device 2.

  Figure 8 shows an assembly 80 according to the invention forming a variant of the assembly 70, insofar as the packaging device is again a device for packaging and applying a nail polish. The packaging device can in this example contain a cuticle softener product, the assembly 80 then being used for nail care prior to nail makeup. The tool 14 is here screwed onto the free axial end of the plug. It comprises for this purpose a screw thread 83 adapted to cooperate with a screw thread complementary to the outer periphery of the plug 12. As a variant of this embodiment, it could be reversibly clipped manually on a complementary relief of the plug 121. The tool 14 comprises in this example two means 81 and 82 respectively forming a cuticle regrowth and a file, both useful for preparing the perimeter of the nail before the application of varnish.

  The means 81 and 82 are intended for the preparation of the surface and the periphery of the nail before painting. The cuticle regrowth, alternatively replaced by scissors, is intended to repel and cut the skins surrounding the nail. It can be used before and after the application of the care product contained in the packaging device 70. The nail file is intended to shorten, and or draw the tips of the nails, in particular to erase the natural irregular contours due for example to the duplication or breakage of nails. In addition to the means 81 and 82, the assembly 80 according to the invention could comprise a third means such as a polisher for smoothing the surface of the nail, and thus removing the surface irregularities due to the natural striations formed on the surface. nails.

  FIG. 9 represents an assembly 90 according to the invention in which the packaging device comprises a container such as 11 and a plug such as 12. According to this embodiment, a tool such as 14 is retained by a carabiner 91 cooperating with a through opening 92 of the cap, a portion of said carabiner being integral with a handle such as 16 of the tool 14.

  Alternatively, the carabiner may be secured to the plug and cooperate with the frame of a through window of a portion of the tool 14.

  FIG. 10 represents an assembly 100 according to the invention comprising a packaging device in which the container such as 11 comprises elastically deformable walls, in order to allow the distribution of the product contained therein. The plug such as 11 comprises a pin engaged sealingly in the dispensing orifice 101 of the container 11. A tool 14 is mounted in tight engagement around a bottom 102 of the container 11, axially opposite the dispensing orifice 101 .

  This tool 14 comprises a body 103 comprising electrical supply means 104 of a resistor 105, such that the heat produced by this resistor is diffused through a tip 106 intended to spread the product applied to the skin. The tool 14 reinforces the effect provided by the care product applied. It allows to dilate and open the pores of the skin before a deep cleansing of the skin. For example, it is particularly effective in the treatment of localized skin conditions or blackheads.

  This tip 106 is soft and soft, preferably impervious to the product.

  A push button 107 is provided to actuate a switch of the power supply 104. The power supply is for example in the form of a battery.

  FIG. 11 shows an assembly 110 according to the invention comprising a packaging device of the type of that of FIG. 5, insofar as the container is a flexible wall tube body on which the tool 14 is force-fitted. the tool 14 comprises a handle provided with a through opening mounted around the container 11 and a pallet 111 provided with spikes 112 erected. This pallet 111 is configured for massage. It allows thanks to the pins to activate the microcirculation and thus promote the penetration of the applied care product, when rubbed against the skin.

  Throughout the description, the phrase having one must be considered to be synonymous with at least one, unless the opposite is specified.

Claims (4)

  1 - Set (1, 10, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110) for the treatment of keratin materials and the application of a product, in particular a cosmetic product, to said materials keratinous material comprising - a packaging device (2) comprising a container (11) containing a product intended to be applied to said keratin materials, and a closure member (12) of said container, and - a treatment tool (14) and / or sampling extending its processing means and / or sampling (18, 25, 26, 27, 28, 72, 81, 82, 106, 111) on the outer periphery of the conditioning device, the tool comprising a means of fixation (15, 19, 20, 24) reversible on said conditioning device. 2 - assembly according to claim 1 characterized in that the tool extends in at least one radial component relative to the outer periphery of the packaging device. 3 - assembly according to claim 1 or 2 characterized in that the tool extends in a secant direction to a longitudinal axis of the packaging device. 4 - assembly according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the tool comprises at least one hinge (31, 32) between the processing means and or sampling and the fixing means. 5. An assembly according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the tool is removably mounted relative to the closure member. 6. An assembly as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the securing means is configured to allow radially clamping mounting around the conditioning device. 7. Assembly according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the fixing means comprise a repositionable adhesive. The assembly according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the fastening means comprises a thread capable of co-operating. with a complementary thread of the packaging device. 9 - assembly according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the fastening means comprises a latching means adapted to cooperate with a complementary relief of the packaging device. An assembly according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the treatment means is a means for treating the product applied to a keratin material, in particular to configure to heat, cool, blow, massage, or spread said product. 11 ù assembly according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the sampling means comprises a porous tip, a foam, a brush, a spatula, a rotatably mounted member relative to the fixing means. 12 - assembly according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the container and the processing means and / or sampling are configured such that said means can not be introduced into the container. 13 - An assembly according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the packaging device comprises an applicator member (71) in communication with the product. 14 - assembly according to claim 13 characterized in that the applicator member is integral with the closure member. 15 - assembly according to claim 13 or 14 characterized in that the applicator member is immersed in the product contained in the container in the closed position of the conditioning device. 30 16- assembly according to any preceding claim characterized in What the treatment means is a dedicated tool for the care of the skin, nails, and or nail makeup. 17 - set according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that it comprises at least two separate processing means and or sampling. 18 ù assembly according to claim 17 characterized in that the means are retained on a common support (24), the fastening means being provided on this common support.