Coating implements with material supply – Supply container and independent applicator – With means for removing surplus material from tool
Patent
1996-03-26
1998-07-21
Bratlie, Steven A.
Coating implements with material supply
Supply container and independent applicator
With means for removing surplus material from tool
401129, A46B 1104
Patent
active
057825688
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns an application system comprising an applicator and a container which is provided for a liquid application medium and into which the applicator having a handle and an applicator member which can be wetted with the liquid application medium can be introduced through the opening, with the applicator member leading, wherein the applicator seals off the container in the condition of being introduced into the container.
Application systems of that kind are known for example in the form of so-called dip liners which are used in the cosmetic area .
In the case of the known application systems of the above-indicated kind, after a prolonged period of use it is not out of the question that the applicator member becomes more or less useless because for example it may adopt a fanned-out configuration. It is also to be noted that, in the case of the known application systems of the kind set forth in the opening part of this specification, the application medium often cannot be completely removed from the container, that is to say, a residue of the application medium may be left behind in the container.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,880,326 discloses an application system having an applicator and a container for an application medium. In that system the container forms a closure cap for an applicator of a pencil-like configuration. The application medium is of a pasty consistency, more specifically that involving an applicator in the manner of a lip pencil. The applicator can be introduced into the cap-shaped container, with the applicator member leading, in which case the applicator seals off the container in the condition of being introduced into the container. In that known application system, provided in the interior of the cap-like container is a screwthreaded spindle which is secured to a fixing element. The screwthreaded spindle is screwed through a piston element which is secured against rotary movement in the cap-like container and which is axially movably guided therein. Rotary movement of the applicator which is fitted on to the cap-like container, about its longitudinal axis, provides for corresponding rotary movement of the fixing element and with same a rotary movement of the screwthreaded spindle. That rotary movement of the screwthreaded spindle is converted into an axial movement of the piston. By virtue of that axial movement of the piston, the pasty application medium is moved forwardly towards the applicator member in the cap-like container. An application system is also known from DE 37 30 838 Al.
The object of the present invention is to provide an application system of the kind stated in the opening part of this specification, which, while being of a simple design configuration, does not suffer from the above-mentioned disadvantages, that is to say in which the applicator member is subjected to a subsequent shaping effect almost at any time, and in which also the last residues of the application medium can be removed from the container.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In an application system of the kind set forth in the opening part of this specification, in accordance with the invention that object is attained in that starting from the opening a sleeve extends into the container, which sleeve is sealingly fixed with its end portion at its upper end to the container and which at a middle portion is formed with at least one aperture communicating the inside of the sleeve with the interior of the container surrounding the sleeve and which at its end portion at its lower end is formed with a conically tapered shaping portion for re-shaping the applicator member, wherein adjoining the shaping portion at the front or lower end is a sleeve end portion which touches the bottom of the container and which is provided with capillary slots.
For the purposes of sealingly fixing the sleeve in the opening in the container, the sleeve may be provided at its top end with a bead or ridge which extends therearound on the outside and, axially spaced from the bead or ridge, with supp
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Griebel Ulrich
Roder Georg
Winkler Wolfgang
Bratlie Steven A.
Schwan-STABILO Cosmetics GmbH & Co.
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