EP1595472A2 - Aufbewahrungs- und Auftragevorrichtung mit einem Teil zum Umformen der auftragenden Fläche - Google Patents

Aufbewahrungs- und Auftragevorrichtung mit einem Teil zum Umformen der auftragenden Fläche Download PDF

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EP1595472A2
EP1595472A2 EP05300344A EP05300344A EP1595472A2 EP 1595472 A2 EP1595472 A2 EP 1595472A2 EP 05300344 A EP05300344 A EP 05300344A EP 05300344 A EP05300344 A EP 05300344A EP 1595472 A2 EP1595472 A2 EP 1595472A2
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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
    • A45D40/08—Casings or accessories specially adapted for storing or handling solid or pasty toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. shaving soaps or lipsticks with provision for sieves or shaping parts for sticks ends
    • 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
    • A45D40/20—Pencil-like cosmetics; Simple holders for handling stick-shaped cosmetics or shaving soap while in use
    • 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
    • A45D40/16—Refill sticks; Moulding devices for producing sticks

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  • the present invention relates to packaging devices and application intended in particular but not exclusively for the make-up of the skin, mucous membranes or integuments.
  • Red packaging and distribution devices are known to lips or deodorant that comprise a body housing a product bread and a mechanism for moving it relative to the body to compensate for its wear at as and when used.
  • the drive mechanism is relatively expensive and also the application surface never finds its original shape.
  • the invention aims in particular to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks.
  • US Patent 2,580,092 discloses a device for melting the end of a candle or the like to form a tip.
  • US Patent 5,151,575 discloses an electrical apparatus for shaping a pencil made entirely of fusible material.
  • fluidifiable should not be understood in a narrow sense and encompasses any possibility of softening the product under the effect of sufficient heat to allow it to flow into the aforementioned cavity in order to reshape the application surface.
  • Solid state means the state of the product at room temperature (approximately 20 ° C) under normal conditions of use.
  • the device does not have a drive mechanism to move the block of product axially relative to the body when the product is at ambient temperature, such as example screw mechanisms known to some deodorants or lipsticks.
  • the reshaping member is advantageously arranged to allow maintain the body of the device vertical when the product flows into the cavity.
  • the reshaping member may in particular be arranged to be able to rest stable on a flat horizontal surface.
  • the reshaping member is arranged to engage on the outside of the body.
  • the reshaping member may for example serve also of body closure member, on the side of the application surface, in order to protect it in the absence of use.
  • the reshaping member may possibly be configured to attach to the body on the side opposite to the application surface, which can for example, reduce the risk of losing it when applying the product.
  • the body has an inner surface in contact with the product and this surface interior may comprise at least one relief tending to oppose the sliding of the product to the solid state in the body.
  • This relief may include a retreint or streak, for example.
  • the body may still have a narrowing inner section or widening towards the application surface.
  • the reshaping member may comprise at least two configured housings to form application surfaces having different shapes, depending on the housing chosen by the user to engage the body of the device. example, to offer the user the choice between several application surfaces, depending on the type of makeup to make.
  • the reshaping member may include a housing for reshaping the application surface and another housing to receive the body in a configuration of closing it, this other housing not being used to reshape the surface application.
  • the body may have, where appropriate, more than one opening through which the product may flow when reshaping the application surface.
  • the body may further comprise at least one off-center opening, through which product can flow when reshaping the application surface.
  • the body of the device may be conditioned in a packaging such as for example a housing having a portion that can serve of reshaping organ.
  • the amount of product contained in the body of the device will be sufficient to allow at least one reshaping operation and preferably at least one two reshaping operations.
  • the temperature at which the product is worn for the purpose of reshaping the application surface may depend in particular on the nature of the product and the speed that this one can put to fill the missing part in the cavity of the organ of reshaping.
  • the product may, for example, have an anhydrous formulation, reversible behavior as a function of temperature and may contain at least one a compound which coagulates, plastifies or hardens at the time of return to room temperature.
  • the product may be for example a blush, a lipstick or a eye makeup product, this list not being limiting, the invention being applicable to any cosmetic or dermatological product.
  • the body of the device and the shaping member are designed to withstand the temperature rise required to fluidize the product and reshape the surface for example, withstand a temperature of about 120 ° C in the absence of mechanical stresses.
  • the reshaping member is designed to facilitate the demolding the application surface.
  • the material in which the reshaper is realized may be provided for this purpose.
  • the reshaping member may be made for example in polypropylene (filled or not), polystyrene, polyamide, in particular Nylon®, PET, in elastomers, silicones, this list is not limiting.
  • the reshaping member may for example be realized with a bottom in an elastically deformable material, for example silicone, for facilitate demolding and the rest in a non-elastomeric material, for example polypropylene.
  • the reshaping member may comprise a vent, in order to facilitate the filling the cavity.
  • the body advantageously comprises, opposite the reshaping member, a opening allowing a setting to the atmospheric pressure.
  • the product can be heated by exposing it to microwave radiation, by example for a time between 10 seconds and 5 minutes, or heat released by an electrical resistance.
  • the product can be heated to a temperature above 80 ° C, for example.
  • the packaging and application device 1 shown in FIG. comprises an applicator member 10 and a reshaper member 20.
  • the application member 10 comprises a body 12 which in the example in question is elongate along a longitudinal axis X and a block of a fluidifiable product 13 protruding at one end of the body 12 to define an application surface 14.
  • the application member 10 constitutes a pencil and the application surface 14 presents before the first use a tapered general shape.
  • the end 15 of the body 12 adjacent to the application surface 14 is substantially frustoconical, converging towards the latter.
  • the body 12 is in the example considered open at its opposite end 16.
  • the product may for example be poured into the body 12 by this end 16 during the manufacture of the device
  • the reshaping member 20 is in the example in the form generally of a cap, comprising a tubular skirt 21 which is connected below a basic part 22.
  • the skirt 21 is cylindrical of revolution around the X axis, its inside diameter being adapted to the outside diameter of the body 12, so as to adjust with a slight tightening on it.
  • the reshaping member 20 defines a cavity 24 delimited radially by the skirt 21 and whose bottom 25 has a shape corresponding to that which one wishes give to the application surface 14 after reshaping thereof.
  • the application member 10 may have a application surface 14 whose shape corresponds to that of the bottom 25 of the cavity 24, the 13 having advantageously been poured into the body 12 while the organ of reshaping 20 was in place on it.
  • the application surface 14 has worn out in because of the transfer of the product to the treated surface and may for example have the shape flattened illustrated in FIG. 3.
  • the user inserts the application member 10 in the reshaper 20, until the end 15 come into axial abutment against it, as shown in Figure 3.
  • a vacuum remains above from the bottom 25 into the cavity 24.
  • the duration of heating may depend on many factors such as for example the power of the oven, the nature of the body of the device and that of the product.
  • the latter can be heated to a temperature above about 80 ° C, by example.
  • the body 12 of the applicator member and the reshaper member 20 are provided to resist the temperature at which the product is heated.
  • the applicator member 10 and the reshaper member 20 may be made of way to be compatible with their passage in a microwave oven, and so be lacking for example metal or metallizations that could damage them or damage the oven used.
  • the product has properties such as when warmed to a sufficient temperature, it can be fluidized and flow under the effect of gravity in the cavity 24 to match the shape of the bottom 25 thereof, as shown in Figure 4.
  • the user allows the product 13 to cool so as to enable it to freeze.
  • the cooling can be carried out for example in the open air or by placing all in a refrigerator or freezer. It can be seen from Figure 4 that the product level has dropped in the body 12 following the flow thereof in the cavity 24 during the reshaping of the application surface 14, this flow being facilitated by the air intake allowed by the body 12, since the end 16 is open.
  • the user can again use the applicator member 10, the application surface 14 having resumed a suitable shape, corresponding to that of the bottom 25.
  • the operation can be renewed as many times as the quantity of product contained in the body 12 allows it.
  • the maximum volume of product that can flow to each reshaping of the application surface 14 in the cavity 24 may for example correspond to less than half the original volume of product block 13, better unless third, quarter, fifth or tenth of it.
  • the heating of the product may, if sufficient, exert a germicidal or bactericidal action on the surface 14, which may possibly reduce the preservative content. in the product, do not use preservatives.
  • the body 12 can be provided on its surface interior 17 of at least one relief, recessed or projecting, as illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 6 and 22 to 24.
  • the inner surface 17 has been provided with striations 18 oriented transversely to the longitudinal axis X and in FIG. 6 the inner surface 17 comprises a retreint 19 constituted for example by an annular bead 31 forming radially protruding inwards.
  • a retreint 19 constituted for example by an annular bead 31 forming radially protruding inwards.
  • other reliefs can still be made without it is outside the scope of the present invention.
  • a porous structure which may be for example a foam or sponge may occupy a more or less important space inside the body, depending for example on the visco
  • the inner surface 17 can still be given a non-constant section, for example example a section tapering towards the end 15 as shown in FIG. 7 or conversely, widening towards the end 15 (variant not shown).
  • the inner surface 17 can be made with a section widening or narrowing towards one end of the body 12 and being provided with in addition to at least one relief favoring the attachment of the product.
  • the reshaping member 20 may serve as a closure cap in order to protect the application surface 14 in the absence of use, as is the case in the example of FIGS. 1 to 4.
  • the reshaper member 20 may comprise a second housing 32, different from the housing defining the cavity 24, and serving only to receive the body 12 in the absence of use, the cavity 24 being the only one adapted to the reshaping of the application surface 14.
  • the housing 32 can by example, be large enough for the reshaper 20 not to come to the contact of the application surface 14, as illustrated in FIG. 8, the end 15 of the body 12 for example bearing axially against a shoulder 33 of the housing 32.
  • the reshaper 20 may define two cavities 24 and 24 'whose respective bottoms 25 and 25' are arranged to reshape the application surface 14 with different shapes, for example a shape more tapered in one case than in the other.
  • the user can thus choose the cavity 24 or 24 ' suitable for the desired application, for example to deposit the product on a wide surface or on the contrary draw an outline.
  • the reshaping member can be made with at least one vent facilitating the evacuation of the air contained in the cavity during filling of it.
  • This vent is for example in the form of a groove 60.
  • the reshaping member 20 can thus, if appropriate, as illustrated in FIGS. Figures 10 and 11, be in the form of a package with a lid closure 37 and a base portion 36 with, for example, a housing 35 for receiving horizontally the application member 10 in the absence of use and defining at least a cavity, for example three cavities 24, 24 'and 24 "in the illustrated example, to receive vertically the applicator member 10 during the reshaping of the application surface 14.
  • Cavities 24, 24 'and 24 "have respective bottoms 25, 25' and 25" having different shapes, in order to make it possible to form surfaces of different applications and example of the tips more or less tapered at the end of the applicator member.
  • the application member 10 may be in a form other than a pencil and FIG. 12 shows a variant embodiment in which the application member 10 has an application surface 14 wider than in the example of Figure 1.
  • the body 12 of the application member 10 comprises in this example a part tubular 40 which is connected at its base to a flange 41 directed radially towards outside.
  • the collar 41 is provided in the example in question with a flange 42 directed towards the end 16 of the applicator member opposite to the application surface 14.
  • the latter presents in the illustrated example a shape substantially in portion of sphere whose periphery is for example substantially mid-width of the collar 41.
  • a rib 43 extends the flange 41 radially inside the skirt 40 and forms a relief improving the retention of the product block 13 in the solid state in the body 12.
  • the body 12 has been shown as obtained by molding plastic material, monolithic way. Of course, it is not beyond the scope of the present invention when the body 12 is made by an assembly of several manufactured elements independently.
  • the reshaping member 20 comprises a wall 46 in the form of a bowl, defining the cavity 24 whose bottom 25 has the shape that one wishes to be able to give back to the application surface 14.
  • the wall 46 is connected at its periphery to a tubular skirt 47 through which the reshaping member may rest on a horizontal surface, with the axis of the cavity 24 vertical.
  • the skirt 47 is extended superiorly by a rib 48 allowing cooperating with the rim 42 to center the applicator member 10 on the reshaper member 20, as shown in Figure 14.
  • the application surface 14 loses its initial shape as illustrated in Figure 13.
  • the application member 10 is positioned on the reshaper 20, as shown in FIG. the whole is heated, for example in a microwave oven, which allows the product 13 to fluidize and flow down into the cavity 24.
  • the application surface 14 may reshape in contact with the bottom 25 of the cavity 24, as illustrated in FIG. will note in this figure that the level of the product in the body 12 has decreased as a result of this reshaping. Then, the product block 13 freezes during cooling and thus retains the shape of the bottom 25 of the cavity 24.
  • sealing means may be provided, such as at least one sealing lip or joint sealing made of a particular material, for example an elastomer.
  • the application member 10 can be realized in various ways without within the scope of the present invention, as is the reshaper 20.
  • FIG. 16 shows an application member 10 intended for application over a wide area, for example on the body, the surface application 14 may have an oblong dome shape for example.
  • the body 12 of the applicator member 10 may be relatively short, the product being for example a blush.
  • the product is for example intended for application on the lips.
  • the body 12 may comprise a single opening 45 through which the product 13 can flow when it is in the fluid state, in order to allow the reshaping of the application surface 14.
  • This opening 45 may be centered on a longitudinal axis of the applicator member, this axis possibly being an axis of symmetry. In a variant, as illustrated in FIG. 19, the opening 45 may be eccentric with respect to the axis longitudinal body 12.
  • the applicator member 10 may also comprise several openings 45 through which product 13 can flow during the reshaping of the application surface 14, as shown in Figure 20.
  • the reshaping member with at least two materials of different hardness, for example an elastomer and a elastomer, to facilitate demolding.
  • One of these materials can define at least the bottom of the cavity and the other material constitute the remainder of the reshaping organ.
  • the reshaping member may then include a source of electrical energy and means for making electrical contact with the resistor carried by the application member, so that the positioning of the application member on the reshaper automatically causes the flow of an electric current in the resistance, the heating of the product and the reshaping of the application surface.

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FR2927782A1 (fr) * 2008-02-22 2009-08-28 Oreal Procede d'application d'un produit cosmetique sur la peau ou les levres et dispositifs pour la mise en oeuvre d'un tel procede
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