WIPER WITH DIFFERENTLY ENDING WIPER BLADES

• US 20130101337A1
• Filed: 10/19/2012
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GEKA GmbH (Sulzer AG)
• Original Assignee: GEKA GmbH (Sulzer AG)
• Inventors: Kulik, Daniela
• Application Number:
  US13/655,974
• Publication Number:
  US 20130101337A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 401/122
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/267 comprising a wiper
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/268 with adjustable wiping action

Abstract

The invention relates to a wiper for wiping a cosmetic applicator. The wiper has a holding section for fastening the wiper to a cosmetic reservoir. The wiper also has a number of wiper blades, which are each composed of a blade shaft that transitions distally into a wiper fin and the wiper has wiper fins that are situated different distances from the holding section.

Claims

1. A wiper (1) for wiping a cosmetic applicator, the wiper comprising:

a holding section for fastening the wiper to a cosmetic reservoir;

a plurality of wiper blades, each having a blade shaft that transitions distally into a wiper fin; and

a plurality of wiper fins that are situated different distances from the holding section.

2. The wiper as recited in claim 1, wherein the blade shafts of the wiper blades are more than just insignificantly flexible in a circumference direction, so that under an influence of forces exerted when the applicator is pulled out through the wiper, the wiper fins respectively attached to each of the wiper blades are able to flex out of the way by more than 1/10 mm in the circumference direction.

3. The wiper as recited in claim 1, wherein the blade shafts of the wiper blades are more than just insignificantly flexible in a radial direction, relative to a longitudinal axis of the wiper, so that under an influence of forces exerted when the applicator is pulled out through the wiper, the wiper fins respectively attached to each of the wiper blades are able to flex out of the way by more than 1/10 mm.

4. The wiper as recited in claim 1, wherein the wiper has six, eight or ten wiper blades that are arranged distributed uniformly along a circumference of the holder section.

5. The wiper as recited in claim 1, wherein wiper blades with short and long blade shafts alternate in a circumference direction so that the wiper fins of adjacent wiper blades, viewed in a direction of a longitudinal axis (L), are always situated in alternating fashion at a first, shorter distance and a second, longer distance from the holding section and one part of the wiper fins lie in a first common plane (EB1) and another part of the wiper fins lie in a second common plane (EB2).

6. The wiper as recited in claim 5, wherein the blade shaft of each erected wiper blade situated after a preceding wiper blade in the circumference direction is longer than the blade shaft of the preceding blade and the wiper fins are arranged in different planes like the steps of a spiral staircase.

9. The wiper as recited in claim 1, wherein the wiper fin, viewed as a whole, extends at least essentially at right angles to a longitudinal axis (L) of the wiper.

10. The wiper as recited in claim 1, wherein blade shafts directly adjacent to one another in a circumference direction are spaced apart from one another—

for at least most of their length—

by a distance equal to at least 0.5 times a maximum width (EUS) of relevant blade shafts in the circumference direction.

11. The wiper as recited in claim 1, wherein at least some of the wiper fins have a bevel oriented essentially in a circumference direction on their distal side surface.

12. The wiper as recited in claim 1, wherein the wiper fins are embodied and oriented so that a section of a center line (M) of the wiper blade that the wiper fins define does not intersect a longitudinal axis (L) of the wiper.

13. The wiper as recited in claim 1, wherein an end surface of the wiper fins oriented radially inward toward a longitudinal axis of the wiper is concave, so that all of the wiper fins, when viewed in a direction of the longitudinal axis (L), projected onto a single plane, combine to delimit an essentially circular clear inner diameter.

7. A wiper for wiping a cosmetic applicator, the wiper comprising:

a holding section for fastening the wiper to a cosmetic reservoir;

a plurality of wiper blades, each having a blade shaft that distally transitions into a wiper fin and the wiper fin is wider than the blade shaft.

14. The wiper as recited in claim 7, wherein the blade shafts of the wiper blades are more than just insignificantly flexible in a circumference direction, so that under an influence of forces exerted when the applicator is pulled out through the wiper, the wiper fins respectively attached to each of the wiper blades are able to flex out of the way by more than 1/10 mm in the circumference direction.

15. The wiper as recited in claim 7, wherein the blade shafts of the wiper blades are more than just insignificantly flexible in a radial direction relative to a longitudinal axis of the wiper, so that under an influence of forces exerted when the applicator is pulled out through the wiper, the wiper fins respectively attached to each of the wiper blades are able to flex out of the way by more than 1/10 mm in the radial direction.

16. The wiper as recited in claim 7, wherein the wiper has six, eight or ten wiper blades that are arranged distributed uniformly along a circumference of the holder section.

8. A wiper for wiping a cosmetic applicator, the wiper comprising:

a holding section for fastening the wiper to a cosmetic reservoir

a plurality of wiper blades, each having a blade shaft that distally transitions into a wiper fin and the wiper fin is cranked relative to the blade shaft.