Mixer system for producing a cosmetic product and dispensing bottle

• US 20190314774A1
• Filed: 09/01/2017
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: B2B Cosmetics
• Original Assignee: B2B Cosmetics
• Inventors: GROS, Julien, TUTENUIT, Gregoire
• Granted Patent: US 11,433,363 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2034/005 with a cartridge
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/055 Piston or plunger for supplying the liquid to the applicator
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/058 Means for mixing different substances prior to application
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 34/00 Containers or accessories specially adapted for handling liquid toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. perfumes
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 2035/99 Heating
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 2101/21 Mixing of ingredients for cosmetic or perfume compositions
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 23/41 Emulsifying
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 23/43 using driven stirrers
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 23/451 by injecting one liquid into another
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 23/49 Mixing systems, i.e. flow charts or diagrams
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 27/88 with a separate receptacle-stirrer unit that is adapted to be coupled to a drive mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 27/92 with helices or screws
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/7131 Breaking or perforating packages, containers or vials
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/7176 using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/754251 reciprocating in the mixing receptacle
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/7544 using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/93 arranged inside the receptacle

Abstract

The invention relates to a mixer system for producing a cosmetic product. The invention also relates to a bottle for dispensing a cosmetic product. The mixer system is used to produce a cosmetic product from capsules (7, 8, 9) containing the: raw materials needed in the composition of such a cosmetic product, namely the cosmetic texturiser, the cosmetic active ingredient and, optionally, a cosmetic fragrance. The invention is intended to be used hi the cosmetics industry.

Claims

1. A mixing system for manufacturing a cosmetic product comprising:

a liquid reservoir;

a liquid pump connected to the outlet of the liquid reservoir;

a receptacle comprising two compartments connected to the liquid pump and suitable for respectively including two capsules containing, for one, a cosmetic texturizing agent, and the other, a cosmetic active ingredient and means for piercing the capsules to allow a forced circulation of liquid from the liquid pump through the two capsules;

a heating means for the liquid having passed through the cosmetic texturizing agent capsule;

a mixing device comprising a container positioned to be in fluid communication with the outlet of each of the two compartments of the receptacle and a mixing member housed in the container and able to create, in said container, the cosmetic product from the two mixtures of liquid and cosmetic texturizing agent and of liquid and cosmetic active ingredient coming from two compartments of the receptacle to produce the cosmetic product.

2. The mixing system according to claim 1, wherein the mixing member is a helix mounted at the bottom of the container on an axle coaxial thereto, passing through the bottom wall of the container and able to be driven by a motor, in particular electric, mounted in the mixing system.

3. The mixing system according to claim 1, wherein the container comprises an opening with a timed valve in its bottom wall to allow the flow of the hot cosmetic product into a storage bottle for the cosmetic product.

4. The mixing system according to claim 1, wherein the container is a removable cylindrical tube closed by a bottom wall to allow the storage of the cosmetic product for later use thereof and positioned below two compartments of the receptacle.

5. The mixing system according to claim 1, wherein the receptacle includes a third compartment connected to the liquid pump and suitable for including a third capsule containing a cosmetic fragrance intended to be included in the composition of the cosmetic product, the container also being connected at the outlet of said third compartment.

6. The mixing system according to claim 1, wherein the piercing means comprise teeth protruding from the bottom wall of each compartment to respectively pierce first walls of the capsules placed in the corresponding compartments, and hollow needles connected to the liquid pump and passing through a manually movable cover of the receptacle and intended to cover the compartments to respectively pierce second walls of the capsules placed in the corresponding compartments.

7. The mixing system according to claim 1, further comprising a controlled rotary selector plate positioned between the respective outlets of the compartments and the container and including a through orifice able to be positioned selectively and successively at the outlet of the cosmetic texturizing agent capsule compartment for the passage of the mixture of liquid and cosmetic texturizing agent in the container and at the outlet of the cosmetic active ingredient capsule compartment for the passage of the mixture of liquid and cosmetic active ingredient in the container and, if applicable, at the outlet of the cosmetic fragrance capsule compartment for the passage of the mixture of liquid and cosmetic fragrance in the container.

8. The mixing system according to claim 1, further comprising a hollow coolant circulation block at least partially surrounding the container, and whereof the liquid inlet and outlet of said coolant block are connected to the liquid reservoir by another pump to provide the cooling of the mixture contained in the container.

9. The mixing system according to claim 8, wherein the liquid reservoir comprises two compartments separated by an inner wall, one of the compartments being connected to the liquid pump of the mixing system and the other compartment being connected to the cooling block via the other pump.

10. The mixing system according to claim 1, wherein the heating means is an internal electrical resistance heating block positioned between the liquid pump of the mixing system and the compartment suitable for receiving the cosmetic texturizing agent capsule.

11. The mixing system according to claim 1, further comprising two solenoid valves respectively positioned between the liquid pump of the mixing system and the compartment capable of receiving the cosmetic texturizing agent capsule and between the liquid pump of the mixing system and at least the other compartment capable of receiving the cosmetic active ingredient capsule, to control the circulation of liquid in the compartments through the capsules.

12. The mixing system according to claim 11 when considered in combination with claim 7, further comprising a flow meter connected to the liquid pump of the mixing system and in that it comprises a control means successively able to:

move the selector plate to bring its orifice into fluid communication with the outlet of the compartment including the cosmetic texturizing agent capsule and open the solenoid valve connected to said compartment to provide the circulation during a given time interval of a first liquid volume through the capsule and calculated from data from the flowmeter;

move the selector plate to bring its orifice into fluid communication with the outlet of the compartment including the cosmetic active ingredient capsule, open the solenoid valve connected to said compartment to provide the circulation during a given time interval of a second volume of liquid through the capsule and calculated from data from the flowmeter, and close the solenoid valve connected to the compartment comprising the cosmetic texturizing agent capsule;

if applicable, move the selector plate to bring its orifice into fluid communication with the outlet of the compartment including the cosmetic fragrance capsule and keep the solenoid valve connected to said compartment and to the compartment including the cosmetic active ingredient capsule open in order to provide the circulation, during a given time interval, of a third volume of liquid through the cosmetic fragrance capsule and calculated from data from the flowmeter.

13. The mixing system according to claim 4, wherein the mixing member comprises a piston forming the bottom wall of the container and a plurality of radial fins secured to the piston and protruding from the upper face of the piston that is able to be rotated with the fins, when the removable container is mounted on the mixing system, by a toothed crown mounted in a support base of the container coaxially to the latter and the axial teeth of which situated on a same side are coupled to the piston said toothed crown being able to be rotated by an electric motor of the mixing system.

14. The mixing system according to claim 1, wherein the mixing member of the mixing device makes it possible to produce an emulsion from two mixtures of liquid coming from the reservoir and melted cosmetic texturizing agent and liquid coming from the reservoir and cosmetic active ingredient coming from the two compartments of the receptacle, if applicable from the third liquid mixture coming from the reservoir and cosmetic fragrance coming from the third compartment of the receptacle to produce the cosmetic product.

15. A bottle for storing and dispensing a cosmetic product made using a mixing system according to claim 13, comprising the container removed from the mixing system and filled with the produced cosmetic product and a head closing the opening of the container opposite the piston and including a pump for dispensing the cosmetic product and a trigger able to be actuated manually for dispensing a volume of cosmetic product at the outlet of the head during pressing on the trigger and to create a vacuum in the container causing the piston to move in the container toward the head in order to offset the volume of cosmetic product dispensed.

16. The mixing system according to claim 1 configured with two capsules respectively comprising a cosmetic texturizing agent and a cosmetic active ingredient for producing a cosmetic product.

17. The mixing system according to claim 16 with a third capsule containing a cosmetic fragrance.