Coating implements with material supply – Multiple-tip multiple-discharge tool
Patent
1986-08-05
1988-10-04
McNeill, Gregory E.
Coating implements with material supply
Multiple-tip multiple-discharge tool
128 66, A46B 1100
Patent
active
047752564
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a hand-held device dispensing a cleansing and/or cosmetic agent for personal hygiene purposes with an exchangeable container containing the cleansing or cosmetic agent.
The presently described hand-held device is in particular a skin massaging device. This skin massaging device, which can also be called a washing and massaging device, makes it possible to clean and simultaneously massage the body, although the device is only to be used with regards to its massaging action.
A known device of the aforementioned type (cf. e.g. DE-AS No 27 49 156) comprises an exangeable container with a cap positionable thereon, which is made from a relatively flexible plastic and has burl-like formation. The change container is used for receiving the body cleansing and cosmetic agents in liquid form, which can pass through the fitted cap outwards on to the cap surface. The cap, which is made from a relatively flexible plastic, is provided with burl-like formations in such a way that the known hand-held device can be guided in a massaging and simultaneously cleansing manner over the skin in much the same way as a bar of soap. During the cleansing process, the user can bring about the discharge of cleansing or cosmetic agent by exerting pressure on the change container, which is also made from relatively flexible plastic. Moreover, the construction of the known hand-held device is such that during use, the user's hand substantially surrounds said container.
The construction of the new hand-held device and the functions allocated to the exchangeable container require the cap to be seated in a satisfactorily sealing manner on the exchangeable container, so as to prevent an escape of cosmetic or cleansing agent between cap and container. In addition, an exchangeable container must on the one hand be made from a relatively flexible material, so that the cleansing or cosmetic agent is discharged by compressing said container, but on the other hand the material must have an adequate strength to give the known hand-held device the overall physical structure. Thus, the use value or serviceability of the hand-held device is impaired or lost, if an exchangeable container is missing, e.g. because it has been thrown away, because it has to be replaced by a new an exchangeable container filled with cleansing or cosmetic agent.
The remaining cap cannot independently be used for massaging or the like and substantially has no use value without an exchangeable container. In addition, the change container must have a relatively complicated construction because, as stated, it has to fulfil a sealing, dispensing and handling function. Thus, a vital part of the known hand-held device must be replaced during each change process.
In view of the aforementioned characteristics of the known hand-held device, the problem of the presently described invention is to provide a device of the aforementioned type, which has a better utility and is simultaneously easier to change.
According to the invention this problem is essentially solved through the teaching of placing an exchangeable container within a hand-held device or to construct the latter in such a way that the container can be arranged therein.
According to this teaching a hand-held device is provided, in which an exchangeable container is relieved of the functions of having to essentially form the structure of the hand-held device and of having to be suitable for preventing a discharge of cosmetic or cleansing agent in the contact region between the cap and the an exchangeable container.
A further advantage is that the hand-held device according to the invention can be used without an exchangeable container for massaging and/or brushing the body, because in this respect its functionality is not dependent on the presence of an exchangeable container. The clear functional separation between an exchangeable container and hand-held device also makes it possible to construct the container in a relatively simple manner, particularly also in thin-walled manner, because du
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