US20120125361A1

US20120125361A1 - Cosmetic case having powder scraping function

Info

Publication number: US20120125361A1
Application number: US12/953,452
Authority: US
Inventors: O Sin Yeom
Original assignee: Elcos America Inc
Current assignee: Elcos America Inc
Priority date: 2010-11-23
Filing date: 2010-11-23
Publication date: 2012-05-24

Abstract

A cosmetic case includes a case, and a powder scraping device disposed in the case. The powder scraping device includes a pressed powder case moveably installed inside the case and housing a pressed powder, a scraper tray moveably installed above the pressed powder case and having a bottom side contacting the pressed powder disposed inside the pressed powder case and a plurality of scrapers disposed at the bottom side of the scraper tray for scraping the pressed powder. A plurality of through-holes are formed at the bottom side of the scraper tray. The scraper is formed at one side of each through-hole and bends in a direction to the pressed powder case. In comparison with a typical cosmetic case, the scraper tray of the cosmetic case in accordance with an embodiment of the present device has an improved scraping effect.

Description

BACKGROUND

1. Field
The present invention relates to a cosmetic case having a powder scraping function.
2. Description of the Related Art
The typical cosmetic case includes a scraper tray for scraping a pressed powder in a pressed powder case into fine powder. The scraped powder is discharged to a scraper tray through a powder discharging hole. A user uses the scraped powder for makeup.

SUMMARY

It is an object of the present device to provide a cosmetic case having a powder scraping function having an improved scraping effect.
In order to accomplish the object of the present invention, there is provided a cosmetic case including a case, and a powder scraping device disposed in the case, wherein the powder scraping device includes a pressed powder case 3 moveably installed inside the case and housing a pressed powder, and a scraper tray 4 moveably installed above the pressed powder case 3 and having a bottom side contacting the pressed powder disposed inside the pressed powder case 3, and a plurality of scrapers 41 disposed at the bottom side of the scraper tray 4 for scraping the pressed powder, wherein a plurality of through-holes 42 are formed at the bottom side of the scraper tray 4, and wherein the scraper 41 is formed at one side of each through-hole and bends in a direction to the pressed powder case 3.
In comparison with a typical cosmetic case, a scraper tray of the cosmetic case in accordance with an embodiment of the present device has an improved scraping effect.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and/or other aspects will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a powder scraping device in accordance with an embodiment of the present device;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an outer case of a cosmetic case in accordance with an embodiment of the present device;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a scraper tray of a cosmetic case in accordance with an embodiment of the present device;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a pressuring ring of a cosmetic case in accordance with an embodiment of the present device; and.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view (A-A) of FIG. 3.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Referring to FIG. 2, a cosmetic case in accordance with an embodiment of the present device includes an outer case 1 and an inner case 2 disposed in a bottom case 12. The cosmetic case in accordance with an embodiment of the present device further includes a powder scraping device.
As shown in FIG. 2, the outer case 1 includes a top case 11 and a bottom case 12 openably connected to each other. The top case 11 includes a hook 14, and the bottom case 12 includes a latch 13. The latch 13 and the hook 14 forms a sealed inner space by sealing the top case 11 and the bottom case 12. The latch 13 includes a groove for receiving the hook 14 and a bottom for unlocking. When a user presses the bottom, the hook 14 is released from the latch 13 by elastic transformation of the latch 13, and the top case 11 is automatically opened from the bottom case 12. The top case 12 further includes a mirror 15.
Referring to FIG. 1, the powder scraping device is movably disposed inside the inner case 2. The powder scraping device includes a pressed powder case 3 housing a pressed powder and a scraper tray 4 disposed above the pressed powder case 3. The scraper tray 4 includes a bottom side contacting a pressed powder disposed inside the pressed powder case 3. The bottom side of the scraper tray 4, which contacts the pressed powder contacting the pressed powder disposed in the pressed powder case 3, includes a plurality of scrapers 41 for scraping the pressed powder. When the scraper tray 4 moves along an upper surface of the pressed powder in the powder case 3, the plurality of scrapers 41 of the scraper tray 4 scrape the pressed powder into fine powder. The scraped powder is upwardly discharged into the scraper tray 4 through a plurality of through-holes. A user uses the discharged powder.
Referring to FIG. 3, the scraper tray 4 includes a plurality of through-holes 42 at the bottom side thereof and a scraper 41 formed at one side of each through-hole. The scraper 41 bends in a direction to the powder case 3. The scraper tray 4 rotates on the pressed powder case 3. Particularly, the scraper tray 4 includes one polygon through-hole 43 at a center of a bottom side and a plurality of through-holes 42 arranged at a peripheral area of the bottom side in all directions from the polygon through-hole 43 as a center. In a view of a moving direction of the scraper tray 4, the plurality of scrapers 41 are disposed at the same side where the plurality of through-holes 42 are arranged in all direction from the polygon through-hole 43 as a center.
In the embodiment of the present device, the polygon through-hole 43 is located at an eccentric position from a bottom center of the scraper tray 41. A scraper 41 is formed at one side of the polygon through-hole 43. The scraper 41 bends in a direction to the pressed powder case 3 as shown in FIG. 5.
A direction indicator 51 is formed on an upper flange that faces a user for indicating a moving direction of the scraper tray 4. The direction indicator prevents a user from rotating the scraper tray in a reverse direction. If a user rotates the scraper tray 4 in a reverse direction, scraped powder is not upwardly discharged above the scraper tray through the through-holes 42.
Such a design of the scraper tray 4 provides a further superior scraping effect and enables the scraper tray 4 to uniformly scrap an entire area of the pressed powder. Further, the design of the scraper tray has a charming look.
A spring 6 is disposed between a bottom side of the pressed powder case 3 and the inner case 2. Although a height of the pressed powder gets lower according to consumption of the pressed powder in the pressed powder case 3, the spring 6 secures a contacting level between the pressed powder and the bottom side of the scraper tray 4. Further, it is possible to control a scraping lever of the pressed powder of the scraper tray 4 through a constant elastic coefficient of the spring 6.
A pressurizing ring 5 is disposed above the scraper tray 4. The pressuring ring 5 is connected to the inner case 2. The pressuring ring 5 is fixedly connected to the scraper tray 4. In the embodiment of the present device, a plurality of latches are disposed at an inner side of the pressurizing ring 5. An upper flange of the scraper tray 5 is integrally connected to the pressurizing ring 5 through the latches. Therefore, the scraper tray 5 rotates together with the pressurizing ring 5.
A plurality of position locking bars 31 are disposed at an outer side of the pressed powder case 3. A plurality of bar-shaped protrusions 21 are formed at an inner side of the inner case 2. The plurality of bar-shaped protrusions 21 are coupled with the plurality of position locking bars 31. The bar-shaped protrusion 21 extends in a vertical direction from the bottom side of the inner case 2. The position locking bar 31 and the bar-shaped protrusion 21 guide a moving direction of the inner case 2 of the pressed powder case 3 by being coupled to each other. Further, the position locking bar 31 and the bar-shaped protrusion 21 improve stability when the pressed powder case 3 moves in a moving direction of the scraper tray 4 through elastic power of the spring 6.
In the embodiment of the present device, the pressed powder case 3 has a circular shape. Accordingly, the inner case 2, the scraper tray 4, and the pressurizing ring 5 have a circular shape. The scraper tray 4 scrapes the pressed powder in the pressed powder case 3 through rotation movement. Such rotation movement is a preferred scraping method.
Since every constituent elements of the scraping device are disposed in the inner case 2, a shape of the outer case 1 is not restricted by a shape of the pressed powder case 3. Such a structure thereof may provide a manufacturer thereof more designing options. Accordingly, a manufacturer may independently design an outer shape of the outer case 1 after assembling the scraping device. Thus, the scraping device in accordance with an embodiment of the present device may be applied in further wider range.
Further, an efficiency of manufacturing the scraping device is improved. A manufacturer thereof can assembly constituent elements of the scraping device through two simple manufacturing steps of disposing a pressed powder in the pressed powder case 3 and disposing the pressurizing ring 5 on the inner case 2.

Claims

1. A cosmetic case comprising:

a case; and

a powder scraping device disposed in the case, the powder scraping device comprising:

a pressed powder case moveably installed inside the case and housing a pressed powder, and

a scraper tray moveably installed above the pressed powder case and having a bottom side contacting the pressed powder disposed inside the pressed powder case, the scraper try having a plurality of through-holes formed at the bottom side of the scraper tray, and a plurality of scrapers formed at one side of each through-hole and bends in a direction to the pressed powder case.

2. The cosmetic case of claim 1, wherein the scraper tray rotates facing the pressed powder case.

3. The cosmetic case of claim 2, wherein one polygon through-hole is formed at a center of the bottom side of the scraper tray, and the plurality of through-holes are arranged at a peripheral area of the bottom side of the scraper tray in a direction from the polygon through-hole as a center.

4. The cosmetic case of claim 3, wherein the plurality of scrapers are located at a same side of the scraper tray where the plurality of through-holes are arranged in a directions from the polygon through-hole from a view of a moving direction of the scraper tray.

5. The cosmetic case of claim 3, wherein the plurality of scrapers are formed at one side of the polygon through-hole and bends in a direction to the pressed powder case.

6. The cosmetic case of claim 3, wherein the polygon through-hole is located at an eccentric position from a bottom center of the scraper tray 41.

7. The cosmetic case of claim 1, further comprising a pressurizing ring disposed above the scraper tray and connected to the case, wherein the scraper tray is fixedly connected to the pressurizing ring.