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
  • A45D40/00—Casings or accessories specially adapted for storing or handling solid or pasty toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. shaving soaps or lipsticks
  • A45D40/26—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball
  • A45D40/262—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball using a brush or the like
  • A45D40/265—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball using a brush or the like connected to the cap of the container
  • A45D40/267—Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball using a brush or the like connected to the cap of the container comprising a wiper

Definitions

• the present invention essentially relates to a container and a brush associated with this container to allow in particular the application of mascara to the eyelashes of the eye.
• the containers generally in the form of a tube, containing mascara, most of the time have a scraper means forming a narrowed opening for the passage of the brush and housed in the neck of the container.
• the brush can be inserted into the container and it can also be wrung when it is removed from the container.
• mascara application brushes comprising one or more plies of bristles having, in a way, a toothbrush shape.
• this type of brush will be better and more effective for applying mascara to the eyelashes of the eye.
• the present invention aims to provide a container-brush combination which solves the above problems.
• the invention relates to a container and its associated brush for applying mascara for example, comprising a scraper means housed in the neck of the container to allow the insertion of the brush into the container as well as wringing said brush during its removal from the container, characterized in that the scraping means consists of a sleeve whose wall is shaped so as to allow the guide and the orientation of the brush towards and in an opening of non-circular shape and corresponding substantially to the non-circular shape of the brush in cross section.
• the sleeve comprises at least one substantially conical part whose apex constitutes said opening.
• the aforementioned sleeve is mounted freely rotating in the neck of the container.
• the sleeve is mounted fixed in the neck of the container, while the brush is mounted freely rotating on a plug or the like closing the container.
• the brush is integral with a rod having in cross section a non-circular shape and corresponding substantially to that of the abovementioned opening in the sleeve.
• the opening in the sleeve has the form an oblong hole, while the brush is formed of at least one layer of bristles, extending substantially along a plane at the end of the rod.
• the wall of the sleeve defines therein two recesses in the form of cones opposite by their apex where the aforementioned opening is located.
• the brush will advantageously be guided and oriented towards and into the non-circular opening formed at the top of the two opposite cones.
• Figure 1 is an axial sectional view of a closed container equipped with the means according to this invention and inside which plunges a brush formed of one or more plies of bristles extending in a plane at the end of a rod carried by a plug.
• FIG. 2 is still an axial sectional view, but taken along the line II-II of FIG. 1.
• Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line III-III of Figure 1.
• Figure 4 is a perspective view of the sleeve fitted to the neck of the container.
• Figure 5 is a schematic perspective view of the brush carried by its rod secured to the plug.
• FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the rod along the line VI-VI of FIG. 5.
• FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic view on a larger scale and in cross section of the brush along the line VII-VII of FIG. 5.
• Figure 8 is an axial sectional view on a smaller scale of another embodiment of the plug on which the brush is mounted freely rotating.
• FIG. 9 partially illustrates and in axial section a container, the neck of which is provided with a sleeve according to another variant.
• FIGS. 1 to 5 represent an embodiment of container with associated brush according to this invention
• a container 1 whose neck 2 externally threaded is internally provided with a sleeve 3 with opening 4, the neck 2 being closed by a plug 5 carrying a rod 6 at the end of which a brush 8 is provided.
• the wall 7 of the sleeve 3 comprises at least one substantially conical part, that is to say, in the example shown, two successive conical parts 7a, 7b whose apex constitutes the opening 4, and this so as to allow guiding and orienting the brush 8 with its associated rod 6 towards and into the opening 4.
• the wall 7 of the sleeve 3 could be provided internally with a relief in the form of a portion of a propeller for example, which will facilitate the rotation and the guiding of the assembly constituted by the sleeve 3 and the brush 8.
• the end of the sleeve 3, opposite the opening 4, is mounted in the neck 2 of the container 1, and this so as to be able to rotate freely in this neck.
• the sleeve 3 is retained axially in the neck 2 by shoulders such as 9, and this without risk of preventing the free rotation of the sleeve.
• the opening 4 of the sleeve 3 has a non-circular shape, namely for example the shape of a rectangular or oblong hole or even of a slot, as can be seen in FIGS. 3 and 4.
• the brush 8, as best seen in Figure 7, also has a non-circular shape in cross section and corresponding substantially to the shape of the opening 4.
• This brush 8, according to the embodiment shown, is formed of two plies of bristles 8a, 8b carried for example, by a metal twist 10 itself secured to the rod 6 fixed on the plug 5. These plies 8a, 8b are arranged in the same plane on either side of the rod 6 and are each formed of two rows of bristles.
• the rod 6, as can be seen in FIGS. 5 and 6, also has a non-circular shape, such as for example rectangular, corresponding substantially to that of the opening 4 of the plug 3.
• the rod 6, at its connection with the brush 8 has a bevelled part 11 which, on the one hand, will promote the rotation of the sleeve 3 as will be described in detail below and which, d on the other hand, the bristles of the brush 8 will not be pinched between the wall 7 of the sleeve 3 and the rod 6, which pinching could cause sudden resistance when the brush is introduced into the container 1.
• the non-circular shape of the opening 4 of the sleeve 3 will correspond substantially to the also non-circular shape in cross section of both the rod 6 and the brush 8.
• the wringing of the brush 8 during its removal and its passage through the opening 4 will be particularly effective because of the substantially identical shape of said opening and said brush , and this although the brush is flat, therefore of non-circular symmetry and therefore not suitable, due to its shape, for wringing by passage through an opening circular.
• the spin will be ideal, that is to say not too important or insufficient.
• the sleeve 3 could be mounted fixed, for example, by force fitting into the neck 2 of the container 1.
• the rod 6 has at its end opposite to that carrying the brush 8 two transverse shoulders 12 retaining it axially in the plug 5 while allowing it to rotate freely in this plug.
• the rod 6 passes through its part 13 which is of circular section between the two shoulders 12, an orifice 14 of slightly larger diameter and formed in a transverse wall 15 forming an integral part of the plug 5.
• part 13 which is of circular section between the two shoulders 12, an orifice 14 of slightly larger diameter and formed in a transverse wall 15 forming an integral part of the plug 5.
• any other variant allowing the axial retention and the free rotation of the rod 6 in the plug 5.
• the sleeve 3 being mounted fixed in the neck 2 of the container, when the rod 6 and its associated brush are introduced into the container 1, the sleeve 7 obviously will not rotate, but it is the brush 8 and the rod 6 which will not rotate in relation to the plug 5, and this under the effect of the substantially conical shape of the wall 7 of the sleeve 3, until finally the brush 8 comes in concordance with the opening 4 in order to be able to pass through this opening.
• the rod 6 With the removal of the brush from the container 1, the rod 6, due to its shape corresponding to that of the opening 4 in the sleeve 3, will allow the brush 8 to pass through the opening 4 to undergo the desired spin as explained above, since the bristles will cooperate with the edges of this opening which, this said once again, has a contour of shape corresponding to that of the envelope of the brush .
• the sleeve 3 in the neck 2 of the container 1 has a wall 7 defining two recesses 16, 17 in the form of cones opposite by their apex where the opening is located 4 previously described and having an oblong or substantially rectangular shape corresponding substantially to the cross-sectional shape of the brush.
• the sleeve 3 can here be mounted fixed or even freely rotating in the neck 2, the recesses 16 and 17 respectively facilitating the insertion of the brush into the container 1 and its removal from said container. It will be observed that in this variant, the cross section of the rod carrying the brush may be of any shape including a circular shape.
• a container has therefore been produced according to the invention with associated brush of a shape particularly suitable for carrying out an effective application of mascara on the eyelashes, which container makes it possible to effect an effective and uniform spinning of this brush upon removal from the container, although this brush be of non-circular section.
• the cross-sectional shape of the brush and of the rod which carries it, as well as the shape of the opening in the sleeve integral with the neck of the container, can assume an asymmetrical shape. any, provided that the shapes of these various elements are substantially corresponding shapes.
• the fixing of the bristles of the brush on its rod, and the rotary or non-rotating fixing of the rod on the plug can be arbitrary.
• the brush could be replaced by any similar applicator element requiring wringing, such as comb, brush, flexible blade, foam or the like.

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