Applicator tubes

• US 3,072,953 A
• Filed: 04/22/1959
• Issued: 01/15/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1958
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bunke Karl A A
• Original Assignee: Bunke Karl A A
• Inventors: BUNKE KARL A A
• Application Number:
  US03/808,036
• Time in Patent Office: 1,364 Days
• US Class Current: 401/132
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/26 Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 23/05 with applicators for shoe polish
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/42 with pads or like contents-applying means contents-applying means associated to aerosol container nozzles B65D83/285; brushes combined or associated with containers A46B11/00; swabs for applying media to the human body from an integral supply A61F13/40

Claims

1. A DEVICE FOR STORING AND APPLYING PASTES COMPRISING A COLLAPSIBLE THIN WALLED TUBE COMPOSED OF EASILY DEFORMABLE MATERIAL AND HAVING ITS DELIVERY END SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME OUTSIDE DIAMETER AS THAT OF THE MAIN BODY OF SAID TUBE, A SUPPORT INTEGRAL WITH AND OF THE SAME MATERIAL AS SAID TUBE SPACED A SHORT DISTANCE WITHIN THE DELIVERY END SO THAT END PORTIONS OF THE TUBE PROVIDE A FLANGE AROUND THE SUPPORT AND DEFINE WITH THE SUPPORT A SHALLOW RECESS, A RESILIENT CELLULAR APPLICATOR PAD AND A THIN, FLAT, STIFF BOTTOM DISK HAVING A DIAMETER TO FIT SNUGLY IN SAID RECESS WITH ITS EDGES TOUCHING THE INTERIOR WALLS OF SAID FLANGE, SAID APPLICATOR PAD BEING ADHERED TO ONE FACE OF SAID DISK OVER SUBSTANTIALLY THE ENTIRE AREA OF SAID FACE AND SAID DISK BEING DISPOSED IN SAID RECESS WITH THE OTHER FACE AGAINST SAID SUPPORT AND HELD FIRMLY THEREIN BY PORTIONS OF SAID FLANGE BENT OVER THE EDGE OF SAID DISK, SAID SUPPORT AND DISK CO-OPERATING TO RESIST CRUSHING OF THE DELIVERY END OF SAID TUBE, SAID SUPPORT, DISK AND PAD BEING FORMED WITH ALIGNED OPENINGS FOR PASSAGE OF PASTE FROM SAID TUBE TO THE EXPOSED SURFACE OF SAID PAD.