GB1598682A

GB1598682A - Container for moulded waxy products

Info

Publication number: GB1598682A
Application number: GB1759577A
Authority: GB
Original assignee: CHUDZIKOWSKI R
Current assignee: CHUDZIKOWSKI R
Priority date: 1977-04-27
Filing date: 1977-04-27
Publication date: 1981-09-23
Also published as: ES244223U; ES244223Y; FR2388524A1; FR2388524B3; DE2818180A1

Description

(54) CONTAINER FOR MOULDED WAXY PRODUCTS (71) I, ROMAN JAN CHUDZIKOWSKI, a British subject of Wysoki Zamek, 2 Southgate Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7BS, Great Britain, do hereby declare the invention, for which I pray that a patent may be granted to me, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement: This invention is concerned with a container for moulded waxy products. The container is primarily for cosmetic products such as lipstick and eye shadow sticks, but it is also useful for similarly moulded colouring materials such as wax crayons, or even moulded waxy sticks of materials such as adhesives, weed-killers and oven-cleaners or any other waxy material provided in moulded stick form for application to a surface by rubbing the surface with one end of the stick.The term waxy is intended to cover any relatively soft material which can be utilised in such a manner.

Known containers for materials such as lipstick are relatively complicated by use of coarse screw threads and projecting lugs to lift the cosmetics "bullet" from out of a shield for use.

According to the present invention there is provided a container for a waxy moulded product comprising (1) a tubular holder, for a waxy bullet, the holder being open at both ends, and (2) a lid having two coaxial tubes, one lying inside and spaced from the other, abutting or connected to a common top surface, the tubes of the lid being open at the ends distant from the top surface so that the tubular holder is slidable into the space between the coaxial tubes, the tubular holder when slid fully into the lid having one end protruding from the lid.

In use of the container it contains a moulded waxy bullet which is formed so as to be capable of lying within the inner tube of the lid. The term "bullet" is more commonly used in connection with lipstick and cosmetics but is used herein to denote moulded waxy sticks in general. The bullet is provided with a base member which is a sliding fit in the tubular holder. In a storage position the tubular holder is pushed fully home into the space between the two tubes of the lid. The bullet is inside the tubular holder with its base member at the end of the tubular holder protruding from the lid, and the inner tube of the lid surrounds the bullet.

To use the waxy bullet, the lid is removed from the tubular holder, inverted and replaced over the other end of the tubular holder. The free end of the inner tube of the lid engages the base member of the bullet which then may be pushed along the tubular holder until a desired amount is exposed for application to a surface.

Both tubes of the lid will normally have solid walls but the inner tube may be in the form of prongs or a helix or any other fragmentary tubular configuration which can pass around the bullet in the storage position and engage the base member of the bullet when exposing the bullet for use.

The various tubes of the container will normally be cylindrical but if desired they could of. course be of mutually compatible triangular, rectangular, oval or other shaped cross-sections.

The base member of the waxy bullet may be another separate relatively short, plastics tube.

In another possible construction, the base member is made of hard wax; in this form it may be moulded together with the bullet by slightly modifying the normal moulding operation. The hard wax partially fuses with the bullet, thus reinforcing it.

Some embodiments of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: FIGURE 1 shows as separate items the two components of one embodiment of the container, the tubular holder and lid, and also the waxy bullet and associated base.

FIGURE 2 shows two further constructions of the lid of Figure 1, FIGURE 3 shows an assembled container of Figure 1 with the bullet in various positions of use.

Referring to Figure 1 of the drawings, the basic components of one embodiment of the invention, in schematic cross-section, are a cylindrical tubular holder 1 and a lid having coaxial outer cylindrical tube 2 and inner cylindrical tube 3 attached to a top surface 4.

Also shown are a waxy bullet 5 embedded in a hard wax base member 6. The clearances between the various components are of course exagerated so that individual components can be distinguished.

The lid shown in Figure 1 may be formed in one piece by injection moulding of a thermoplastic resin. Alternatively, a suitable lid may be sectional as shown in Figure 2 and assembled by forming the outer tube 2 and top surface 4 in one moulding operation, for example by injection, vacuum, or pressuremoulding or a combination thereof. The inner tube 3 is formed in a separate extrusion or injection moulding operation. The separate inner tube 3 may be provided with a flange 7 by which it may be adhered to the top surface 4 or it may be provided with a short sleeve 8 dimensioned to be a friction fit within the outer tube 2.

An assembled container and bullet is shown in Figure 3. In Figure 3a, the storage position, the lid is pushed fully over the tubular holder so that the tubular holder 1 is between the inner and outer tubes 2 and 3 with one end against the top 4. The bullet 5 rests within the inner tube 3 with the shoulder, formed by the difference in diameter of the bullet 5 and base member 6, resting against the free end of the inner tube 3. To use the waxy bullet, the protruding end of the tubular holder 1 and the lid are both gripped manually and the lid removed from the tubular holder which retains the bullet inside it. The lid is inverted and engaged with the other end of the tubular holder so that the base member 6 of the bullet rests against the free end of the inner tube 3 as shown in Figure 3b.The lid is then pushed back over the tubular holder so that the inner tube 3 pushes the base member 6 along the tubular holder thus exposing the bullet for use as shown in Figure 3c. To return the bullet to the storage position this operation is reversed, the lid again being removed, inverted, and pushed over the other end of the tubular holder so that the shoulder between the base member 6 and the bullet 5 is contacted by the free end of of the inner tube 3. The lid is then again pushed fully home to return once more to the position shown in Figure 3a.

The base member 6 may be dimensioned to be in sliding contact with the inner surface of the tubular holder 1 with sufficient frictional resistance so that it will not fall out in normal use but may easily be manouevred within the holder by light pressure. Another, preferable, expedient is to cut sections from a tube in such a manner as to provide an internal circumference burr at the ends of the sections, through which a bullet can be pushed in, but which prevents it falling out by gravity or shaking. Alternatively, a lip may be purposely moulded, for a plastics tube, or rolled over, for a metal tube, to prevent accidental loss of the bullet.

Similarly the tubular holder 1 may be a sliding fit against at least one of the concentric tubes 2 and 3. Alternatively splines may be formed at the ends of the tubes 2 or 3 to grip an end of the tubular holder when the lid is pushed fully home. If desired the splines may be formed among the whole length to provide grip in all positions.

The simplicity of construction of this holder means it can be manufactured very easily. The various tubes can be formed of metal, but most suitably they are moulded from thermoplastic resins, and the simplicity of the construction means that complicated moulds are not required. Also the bullet is strongly reinforced in its most vulnerable place, i.e. at the bottom of the bullet. The base provided for the bullet makes the bullet extremely stable in use.

WHAT I CLAIM IS: 1. A container for a waxy moulded product comprising (1) a tubular holder for a waxy bullet, the holder being open at both ends, and (2) a lid having two coaxial tubes, one lying inside and spaced from the other, abutting or connected to a common top surface, the tubes of the lid being open at the ends distant from the top surface so that the tubular holder is slidable into the space between the coaxial tubes, the tubular holder when slid fully into the lid having one end protruding from the lid.

2. A container according to claim 1 in which each end of the tubular holder is provided with an internal lip.

3. A container according to claim 2 in which the lips are circumferential burrs formed when cutting the tubular holder to size.

4. A container according to claim 1, 2 or 3, in which the lid is one-piece moulding.

5. A container according to claim 1, 2 or 3 in which the lid is formed from two separate components, (a) the inner tube and (b) the outer tube and top surface.

6. A container according to any one of claims 1 to 5, in which the inner tube of the lid is in the form of prongs or another fragmentary tubular configuration.

7. A container according to claim 1 substantially as described herein with reference to Figures 1 and 3 or Figures 1 and 3 with the modifications of Figure 2.

8. A container according to any one of claims 1 to 7 in which a waxy bullet of transverse dimension less than the inner tube of the lid is supported within the tubular holder on a base member which is slid able within the tubular holder.

9. A container according to claim 8 in

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Claims

**WARNING** start of CLMS field may overlap end of DESC **. coaxial outer cylindrical tube 2 and inner cylindrical tube 3 attached to a top surface 4. Also shown are a waxy bullet 5 embedded in a hard wax base member 6. The clearances between the various components are of course exagerated so that individual components can be distinguished. The lid shown in Figure 1 may be formed in one piece by injection moulding of a thermoplastic resin. Alternatively, a suitable lid may be sectional as shown in Figure 2 and assembled by forming the outer tube 2 and top surface 4 in one moulding operation, for example by injection, vacuum, or pressuremoulding or a combination thereof. The inner tube 3 is formed in a separate extrusion or injection moulding operation. The separate inner tube 3 may be provided with a flange 7 by which it may be adhered to the top surface 4 or it may be provided with a short sleeve 8 dimensioned to be a friction fit within the outer tube 2. An assembled container and bullet is shown in Figure 3. In Figure 3a, the storage position, the lid is pushed fully over the tubular holder so that the tubular holder 1 is between the inner and outer tubes 2 and 3 with one end against the top 4. The bullet 5 rests within the inner tube 3 with the shoulder, formed by the difference in diameter of the bullet 5 and base member 6, resting against the free end of the inner tube 3. To use the waxy bullet, the protruding end of the tubular holder 1 and the lid are both gripped manually and the lid removed from the tubular holder which retains the bullet inside it. The lid is inverted and engaged with the other end of the tubular holder so that the base member 6 of the bullet rests against the free end of the inner tube 3 as shown in Figure 3b.The lid is then pushed back over the tubular holder so that the inner tube 3 pushes the base member 6 along the tubular holder thus exposing the bullet for use as shown in Figure 3c. To return the bullet to the storage position this operation is reversed, the lid again being removed, inverted, and pushed over the other end of the tubular holder so that the shoulder between the base member 6 and the bullet 5 is contacted by the free end of of the inner tube 3. The lid is then again pushed fully home to return once more to the position shown in Figure 3a. The base member 6 may be dimensioned to be in sliding contact with the inner surface of the tubular holder 1 with sufficient frictional resistance so that it will not fall out in normal use but may easily be manouevred within the holder by light pressure. Another, preferable, expedient is to cut sections from a tube in such a manner as to provide an internal circumference burr at the ends of the sections, through which a bullet can be pushed in, but which prevents it falling out by gravity or shaking. Alternatively, a lip may be purposely moulded, for a plastics tube, or rolled over, for a metal tube, to prevent accidental loss of the bullet. Similarly the tubular holder 1 may be a sliding fit against at least one of the concentric tubes 2 and 3. Alternatively splines may be formed at the ends of the tubes 2 or 3 to grip an end of the tubular holder when the lid is pushed fully home. If desired the splines may be formed among the whole length to provide grip in all positions. The simplicity of construction of this holder means it can be manufactured very easily. The various tubes can be formed of metal, but most suitably they are moulded from thermoplastic resins, and the simplicity of the construction means that complicated moulds are not required. Also the bullet is strongly reinforced in its most vulnerable place, i.e. at the bottom of the bullet. The base provided for the bullet makes the bullet extremely stable in use. WHAT I CLAIM IS:

1. A container for a waxy moulded product comprising (1) a tubular holder for a waxy bullet, the holder being open at both ends, and (2) a lid having two coaxial tubes, one lying inside and spaced from the other, abutting or connected to a common top surface, the tubes of the lid being open at the ends distant from the top surface so that the tubular holder is slidable into the space between the coaxial tubes, the tubular holder when slid fully into the lid having one end protruding from the lid.

9. A container according to claim 8 in

which the base member is a tube engaged with one end of the waxy bullet.

10. A container according to claim 8 in which the base member is formed from hard wax moulded around one end of the waxy bullet.