US20170065054A1 - Cosmetic container, inner lid with fiber sheet and method for manufacturing inner lid - Google Patents

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US20170065054A1
US20170065054A1 US15/258,372 US201615258372A US2017065054A1 US 20170065054 A1 US20170065054 A1 US 20170065054A1 US 201615258372 A US201615258372 A US 201615258372A US 2017065054 A1 US2017065054 A1 US 2017065054A1
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    • 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
    • A45D40/00—Casings or accessories specially adapted for storing or handling solid or pasty toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. shaving soaps or lipsticks
    • A45D40/0068—Jars
    • 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
    • A45D42/00—Hand, pocket, or shaving mirrors
    • A45D42/02—Mirrors with lipstick or powder-pads
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D25/00—Details of other kinds or types of rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D25/54—Inspection openings or windows
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D43/00—Lids or covers for rigid or semi-rigid containers
    • B65D43/02—Removable lids or covers
    • 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
    • A45D33/00—Containers or accessories specially adapted for handling powdery toiletry or cosmetic substances
    • A45D33/006—Vanity boxes or cases, compacts, i.e. containing a powder receptacle and a puff or applicator
    • A45D33/008—Vanity boxes or cases, compacts, i.e. containing a powder receptacle and a puff or applicator comprising a mirror
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to a cosmetic container suitable to store a cosmetic with fluidity and viscosity, an inner lid to be used with the cosmetic container and a method for manufacturing the inner lid.
  • Liquid cosmetics with very high fluidity are stored in bottle containers, creamy cosmetics with a relatively low viscosity with fluidity are stored in tube containers, and solid cosmetics or powder cosmetics with high viscosity and without fluidity are generally stored in compact containers.
  • Japanese Patent Application Laid-open publication No. 2008-194190 and Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 7-43575 disclose cosmetic containers in which a paste or powder form cosmetic without fluidity is stored in a container body and a ring-shaped lid covered with mesh is provided at the upper open end of the container body.
  • a puff is used to push down the mesh against the tension of the mesh from above to take out the cosmetic in the container body through the mesh.
  • An aspect of the present invention provides a cosmetic container that makes possible to store a cosmetic with low viscosity having fluidity in a container body with an open upper end without leaking the cosmetic from inside of the container body even when the container body is held in a reversed state for a long time, and that the cosmetic can be easily taken out from the container body by using a puff when necessary.
  • a cosmetic with viscosity in a range of 2,000 cP to 60,000 cP is mentioned herein as a cosmetic with low viscosity and fluidity.
  • preferable range of viscosity of the cosmetic to be stored in the present cosmetic container is 2,000 cP to 30,000 cP.
  • a cosmetic container according to this invention comprises a container body to store the cosmetic with low viscosity and fluidity and an inner lid having a frame to be attached to an opening of the container body and covered with an elastic fiber sheet.
  • the fiber sheet when attached to the frame with a static state has a visible light transmittance equal to or smaller than 1.8%, and when the fiber sheet is stretched from the static state to have an area as much as 1.05 times larger than that of the static state, the visible light transmittance of the fiber sheet become equal to or greater than 2.0%.
  • the fiber sheet is preferably formed from braided fibers and, more preferably, the fiber sheet is formed from warp knitting.
  • main fiber of the fiber sheet is polyester or nylon
  • sub-fiber thereof is polyurethane.
  • polyester is preferably included equal to or greater than 85%
  • nylon is preferably included equal to or greater than 87%.
  • FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a cosmetic container according to an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 2A is a perspective view showing a partially assembled state of the cosmetic container according to the above embodiment
  • FIG. 2B is a perspective view showing the entire cosmetic container in an assembled state
  • FIG. 2C is a vertical cross-sectional view of FIG. 2B ;
  • FIGS. 3A and 3B (collectively referred to as FIG. 3 ) is a diagram showing a measurement device of visible light transmittance of a fiber sheet of the above embodiment
  • FIG. 4A is a vertical cross-sectional view showing the fiber sheet attached to a lower surface of a frame
  • FIG. 4B is across-sectional view showing a state where a tension is applied to a central part of the fiber sheet in a direction intersecting a surface thereof;
  • FIGS. 5A and 5B (collectively referred to as FIG. 5 ) is a schematic view showing molds for injection molding of the inner lid.
  • a cosmetic container 1 includes, as shown in FIG. 1 , a container body 4 open in an upper end thereof, an outer lid 2 that hermetically seals an opening of the container body 4 , and an inner lid 3 that is to be attached inside the container body 4 .
  • the container body 4 is configured from a shallow cup-shaped part 41 to store a cosmetic and a cylindrical neck part 42 that extends upwards from the cup-shaped part 41 .
  • An external thread 43 is formed to an outer periphery of the neck part 42 , and an inner peripheral surface 44 of the cup-shaped part is formed cylindrically.
  • An internal thread that screws to the external thread 43 is formed to an inner peripheral surface of the outer lid 2 (refer to FIG.
  • the inner lid 3 has a shallow cylindrical frame 31 with an outer peripheral surface 32 that contacts the inner peripheral surface 44 of the container body 4 , and an elastic fiber sheet 10 is attached to the lower end 35 of the frame 31 to cover the cylindrical frame 3 .
  • An upper end of the frame 31 is provides with an outwardly extending brim 33 .
  • FIG. 2C when the inner lid 3 is attached inside the container body 4 , the lower surface of the brim 33 of the frame 31 comes to contact with an upper end face of the container body 4 . In this way, the inner lid 3 does not fall inside the container body 4 .
  • the fiber sheet 10 is attached at a peripheral upper end surface thereof to the lower end 35 of the frame 31 as shown in FIG. 2C .
  • a lower surface of this fiber sheet 10 is arranged to be spaced apart upwards from an inner bottom surface 45 of the container body 4 with a space D 1 , which space D 1 becomes substantially a storing space of a cosmetic 5 .
  • the cosmetic 5 initially stored in the container body 4 shall be such an amount that the cosmetic does not contact the lower surface of the fiber sheet 10 , namely, such that a slight space is formed below the fiber sheet 10 .
  • the depth in the vertical direction of the frame 31 of the inner lid 3 is formed slightly larger than half the depth of the container body, and the upper side of the fiber sheet 10 inside the frame 31 is made as a space to store a puff (not shown).
  • the fiber sheet 10 of the inner lid 3 is preferably formed by warp knitting of fibers of equal to or smaller than 500 denier, and openings formed by the warp knitting are so small that they cannot be visually observed. The degree of the openings can be measured with a visible light transmittance to be described later.
  • the fiber sheet is preferably formed from a warp knitted tricot having an excellent elasticity and flexibility.
  • polyester or nylon is used as a main fiber and polyurethane is used as a sub-fiber.
  • the fiber sheet 10 when the cosmetic with low viscosity and fluidity is stored in the container body 4 and closed with the inner lid at the upper end thereof, it becomes necessary that even when the stored cosmetic is held for a long period of time with the container body being inverted, the fiber sheet 10 has to prevent the cosmetic from leaking through the fiber sheet 10 . Further, when the cosmetic container is held in a normal state as shown in FIG. 2(C) and a central part of the fiber sheet 10 is pressed downward for a predetermined amount with such as a puff, the openings between the fibers of the sheet 10 are widen, and the cosmetic that is stored inside the container body can seep upward through the openings of the fiber sheet and adheres to the puff such that the cosmetic can be easily taken out.
  • FIG. 3 shows a device for measuring the visible light transmittance through the fiber sheet.
  • a sample fiber sheet 111 having elasticity is mounted to a measurement frame 110 , which corresponds to the frame 31 of the inner lid 3 , with a predetermined tension referred hereinafter.
  • the measurement device 100 has a light source part 101 and a measuring part 102 , and the fiber sheet 111 that is mounted to the measurement frame 110 as above is placed between the light source part 101 and the measuring part 102 . Light from the light source part passes through the fiber sheet and is received by a light-receiving element integrated in the measuring part 102 .
  • the intensity of light through the fiber sheet measured by the light-receiving part is compared with an original intensity of light measured without the fiber sheet and thus a visible light transmittance of the fiber sheet is calculated therefrom and the measuring part 102 outputs and displays the above calculation results.
  • a known device (“HA-TR” made by Suga Test Instruments Co. Ltd. in Japan) on the market is used.
  • the width w at the periphery of the measurement frame 110 is made wide to make it easy to attach the fiber sheet.
  • An inner diameter ⁇ 2 of the measurement frame 110 is 7 cm.
  • a sample 111 of fiber sheet is cut in a circular shape to be slightly larger than the inner diameter ⁇ 2 of the frame.
  • the above state of the sample sheet, which is circular and not expanded, is called herein as “initial state” of the fiber sheet and has an area (S 0 ).
  • the peripheral edge of the sample sheet 111 is adhered to one end face of the measurement frame 110 under a predetermined low tension so as not to allow the sample sheet to slack.
  • the above predetermined tension is a tension which expands an area of the sample sheet as much as 1.05 times of that of the initial state and this expanded state is called as “static state” of the fiber sheet.
  • FIG. 4A shows the fiber sheet 10 in the static state adhered to the lower end of the frame 31 having a diameter of ⁇ 1 .
  • FIG. 4B is a view showing the fiber sheet 10 pressed downwards at the center part thereof toward the cosmetic in the container body.
  • S 1 the area of the circle with the diameter ⁇ 1 .
  • the sheet 10 deforms to a cone shape.
  • the flat area (S 1 ) of the sheet 10 changed to an area of the side surface of this cone (hereinafter, referred to as S 2 ), as calculated below.
  • the sample fiber sheet in the initial state has to be expanded to an area of 1.05 ⁇ 1.05 ⁇ 1.10 times. Namely, the sample fiber sheet in the initial state has to be stretched 1.05 times up to the static state and then the same sample fiber sheet in the static state has to be further stretched 1.05 times to reproduce the depressed state as shown in FIG. 4(B) .
  • the sample fiber sheet stretched as much as 1.10 times from the initial state is attached to the measurement frame.
  • fiber sheets I to IX are selected and three types of tests have been conducted on these fiber sheets so as to evaluate a leakage of cosmetic through the fiber sheet, an easiness of extraction of the cosmetic through the fiber sheet and degrading of the fiber sheet.
  • each type of nine fiber sheets is set to a frame with a tension of the static state set forth above and visual light transmittance of each fiber sheet was measured first.
  • each type of nine fiber sheets is stretched from the static state to have an area as much as 1.05 times larger than that of the static state and visual light transmittance of each fiber sheet was measured. Then, each fiber sheet is attached to an open end of a container body filled with cosmetic having relatively low viscosity of 60,000 cP and the fiber sheet was repeatedly depressed with the use of puff against the cosmetic. At the time the cosmetic in the container body stops seeping out to the upper surface of the fiber sheet, an amount of the remaining cosmetic is measured. When the remaining amount is equal to or less than 10% of the original amount, it was evaluated as satisfactory.
  • Another test of degrading is a test whether or not the fiber sheet becomes wavy or slack after a long period of time, and this is a problem of the fiber itself and is considered to depend on the amount of polyurethane.
  • polyurethane is mixed with other fibers in order to enhance the elasticity of the fiber sheet, it is known that when a certain amount polyurethane contacts to cosmetic, the elasticity thereof is degraded and the surface of the fiber sheet become wavy or slack.
  • Such wave will not affect so much to the leakage of the cosmetic and the easiness of extraction of the cosmetic but it will degrade the appearance of the cosmetic to be used. Therefore, the surface conditions of the fiber sheets containing polyurethane were observed and those fiber sheets not generating the waves or slacks after the repeated test of the easiness of extraction were considered acceptable.
  • the fiber sheet when attached to the frame with the static state should have a visible light transmittance equal to or smaller than 1.8%, and when the fiber sheet is stretched from the static state to have an area as much as 1.05 times larger than that of the static state, the visible light transmittance of the fiber sheet should become equal to or greater than 2.0%.
  • polyester is preferably included by equal to or greater than 85%
  • nylon is preferably included by equal to or greater than 87%.
  • the cosmetic container is described in which the container body is opened and closed by screwing the outer lid from above to the container body, but this invention is not limited to the above container and can be applied to typical compact containers in which a hinge is used to open and close a container body by a lid.
  • FIG. 5 shows a mold in vertical cross section for forming the inner lid, in which FIG. 5A shows the mold 50 in an open state, and FIG. 5B shows the mold 50 in a closed state.
  • the mold 50 is configured from a first mold 51 that is fixed at the lowest position, a second mold 52 arranged above the first mold 51 to be moved up and down, and a third mold 53 arranged above the second mold 52 to be moved up and down.
  • the second mold 52 is provided with a cylindrical cavity 55 that goes along the outer shape of a frame.
  • the third mold 53 is fixed with a core 56 to form a hollow part of the frame.
  • a fiber sheet 111 is provided with a predetermined tension between the first mold 51 and the second mold 52 .
  • the predetermined tension set forth above is a tension to provide the static state of the fiber sheet when molded to the frame.
  • the core 56 is inserted into the cylindrical cavity 55 in the second mold 52 as shown in FIG. 5A and a hollow cylindrical cavity 60 in the shape of the frame having a brim-shaped space 61 to an upper end is formed. Further, the fiber sheet 111 is sandwiched between an upper end face 57 of the first mold 51 and a lower end face 58 of the core 56 . Also, a channel for supplying a melted resin from a runner to a gate 62 is formed.
  • the melted resin When the melted resin is injected via the gate 62 into the cavity 60 , the melted resin under pressure seep through the fiber sheet 111 arranged to the lower end of the cavity 60 and becomes integral with the resin in the cavity. Thus, when the resin cools, the resin sets in a shape of the frame integral with the fiber sheet 11 . Then, the mold 50 is opened to separate from the gate 62 and the fiber sheet 111 is cut along the outer shape of the circular lower end of the frame to complete the inner lid 3 in FIG. 1 .

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