Coating implements with material supply – Supply container and independent applicator – With means for removing surplus material from tool
Patent
1994-01-24
1997-12-16
Bratlie, Steven A.
Coating implements with material supply
Supply container and independent applicator
With means for removing surplus material from tool
401129, A45D 4000
Patent
active
056977204
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has essentially as its subject a device for wiping a brush upon its removal from a liquid-filled container.
It is also directed to a container with a brush for mascara for eyelashes including the device.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
One has already proposed devices for application liquids for eyelashes comprising in a general manner a brush carried by a stopper adapted to obturate a tank which contains the liquid product, such for example as mascara.
These devices generally comprise one or several elements mounted within the neck of the container so as to permit, on one hand, the guiding without scraping of the brush when one inserts it into the container and on the other hand, the wiping or drying of the brush upon extraction of the brush from the container.
However, the means arranged in the neck of the container for providing these two functions where somewhat complicated, thereby increasing the price of the apparatus and they did not always provide a good reliability and satisfactory results.
OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore the present invention proposes a drying device which is not very expensive to manufacture, with a very simple mechanical design yet providing complete satisfaction from the standpoint of the guiding of the brush upon insertion into the container as well as from the wiping and/or drying of the brush upon extraction from the container.
For that purpose the invention has as its subject a device for the drying of a brush or the like, of the type comprising a sleeve insertable into the neck of a container, characterized in that the sleeve comprises one open end, another end provided with articulated flaps and a wall provided with lugs or the like radially deformable towards the axis of the sleeve at the insertion of the sleeve into the neck of the container, the lugs thus constituting a stop for the flaps upon the withdrawal of the brush through these flaps which at the insertion of the brush are freely pivoting to permit this insertion.
According to another characteristic of this device, the aforesaid flaps comprise notches or the like defining in the position of abutment of the flaps upon the lugs, an opening for the passage and the drying of the brush when one withdraws it through the sleeve. One should further specify here that the aforesaid lugs, which are elastically deformable, comprise a ramp-shaped portion projecting outwards of the sleeve.
According to another characteristic of the invention, this sleeve with the lugs and flaps constitutes one single piece molded from a substantially elastic material such as a thermoplastic elastomer.
According to still another characteristic of the device of this invention the aforesaid lugs are cut out in the wall of the sleeve along a direction substantially parallel to its axis whereas the aforesaid flaps are connected to one end of the sleeve by a thinned portion of material forming a hinge.
According to a preferred embodiment, this device comprises two diametrically opposite lugs the free ends of which form each one an abutment upon which both aforesaid flaps may bear.
According to still another characteristic of this invention, each of the confronting edges of the flaps comprise a notch to define the aforesaid opening, and the flaps are slightly spaced from each other when the sleeve is in the state of rest, i.e. not inserted into the neck of the container.
One should further specify that in the rest condition of the sleeve, the flaps may be slightly bent towards the aforesaid open end of the sleeve. The open end of the sleeve may comprise at least one angular portion projecting towards the outside and adapted to co-operate with the neck of the container.
One therefore understands that the sleeve may quite simply be driven in the manner of a plug into the neck of the container to provide to the latter the functions of guiding and drying of the brush with the best possible reliability.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Further advantages and characteristics of the invent
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Bratlie Steven A.
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