Toilet – Hair device – Eyelash or eyebrow
Patent
1998-01-07
1999-08-17
Wilson, John J.
Toilet
Hair device
Eyelash or eyebrow
132320, 401122, 401126, 401127, A45D 4026, A46B 1100
Patent
active
059378697
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention has essentially as its subject a container and a brush associated with this container for permitting in particular the application of mascara onto the eyelashes.
BACKGROUND ART
The containers for mascara are generally in the shape of a tube and commonly consist of a scraping means forming a narrowed opening for the passage of the brush and accommodated in the neck of the container.
Thus the brush could be inserted into the container and it could also be wiped dry during its withdrawal from the container.
Presently conventional mascara brushes, due to their generally circular shape, prevent getting near the root of the lash since they interfere with the eyelid or even with the eye itself.
It therefore is clearly preferable to use mascara applying brushes comprising one or several sheets of bristles having in a way a shape of a tooth-brush. Thus, this type of brush will be more effective for the application of mascara onto the lashes of the eye.
However until now such brushes owing to their shape are not compatible with the present scraping systems comprising a generally circular opening which may therefore not permit the effective dry-wiping of a brush of the type or of the general shape of a tooth-brush.
Therefore the present invention has as its object to propose a container-brush combination which solves the hereabove problems.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
For that purpose, the invention has as its subject a container and its associated brush for the application of mascara, comprising a scraping means accommodated in the neck of the container to permit the insertion of the brush into the container as well as the dry-wiping of the said brush during its withdrawal from the container, wherein the scraping means is constituted by a sleeve the wall of which is shaped so as to permit the guiding and the directing of the brush towards and into an opening with a non-circular shape and corresponding substantially to the shape of the brush itself, which also has a non-circular cross-section.
According to another characteristic of the invention, the sleeve comprises at least one substantially conical part the apex of which constitutes the said opening.
The aforesaid sleeve is freely rotatably mounted into the neck of the container.
One thus already understands that upon the insertion of the brush, there will occur a forced rotation of the sleeve within the neck of the container so that the said brush will place itself automatically in correspondingly registering relationship with the opening of the sleeve so that it may move through this opening.
According to another embodiment, the sleeve is mounted in stationary relationship within the neck of the container whereas the brush is freely rotatably mounted onto a cap or the like for closing the container.
One should further specify that the brush is made fast to a stem exhibiting in cross-section a non-circular shape corresponding substantially to that of the aforesaid opening in the sleeve.
According to another characteristic of this invention, the opening in the sleeve exhibits the shape of an elongated hole whereas the brush is formed of at least one sheet of bristles extending substantially in a plane at the end of the stem.
According to another embodiment, the wall of the sleeve defines therein two recesses in the shape of cones opposite to each other with their apexes where the aforesaid opening is located.
Thus, during the insertion into as well as the withdrawal from the container, the brush will advantageously be guided and directed towards and into the non-circular opening formed at the level of the apex of both opposite cones.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
But further advantages and characteristics of the invention will appear in the detailed description which follows and refers to the attached drawings given by way of example only and in which:
FIG. 1 is a view in axial section of a closed container fitted with the means according to this invention and inside of which is dipping a brush formed of one or seve
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Wilson John J.
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