Container having applicator and rotatable stirrer

• US 3,336,624 A
• Filed: 02/19/1965
• Issued: 08/22/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Albert B. Skolnik, Eli I. Schefer
• Original Assignee: Albert B. Skolnik, Eli I. Schefer
• Inventors: Schefer, Eli I., Skolnik, Albert B.
• Application Number:
  US04/434,081
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• US Class Current: 401/4
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 34/048 with stirring means
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 27/054 Deformable stirrers, e.g. deformed by a centrifugal force applied during operation
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 27/1125 with vanes or blades extending parallel or oblique to the stirrer axis
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 33/5011 portable during use, e.g. hand-held
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 33/50111 Small portable bottles, flasks, vials, e.g. with means for mixing ingredients or for homogenizing their content, e.g. by hand shaking
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/4111 at the top of the receptacle

Claims

1. IN DISPENSING APPARATUS FOR FINGERNAIL ENAMEL AND THE LIKE COMPRISING A CONTAINER FOR HOLDING SAID ENAMEL, SAID CONTAINER HAVING A NECK PORTION WITH AN OPEN TOP, CLOSURE MEANS FOR SAID CONTAINER COOPERATIVELY ENGAGING WITH SAID NECK PORTION THEREOF TO COVER SAID OPEN TOP, AND BEARING MEANS ROTATABLY MOUNTED IN SAID NECK PORTION AND HAVING STIRRING MEANS THEREON EXTENDING INTO SAID CONTAINER, THE COMBINATION WHICH COMPRISES APPLICATOR MEANS SEPARATE FROM SAID CLOSURE MEANS, SAID APPLICATOR MEANS HAVING AN INTERMEDIATE PORTION OF CROSS-SECCION CONGRUENT WITH A CROSS-SECTION OF SAID BEARING MEANS AND COOPERATIVELY ENGAGING WITH SAID BEARING MEANS WHEREBY ROTATING SAID APPLICATOR MEANS ROTATES SAID BEARING MEANS, SAID APPLICATOR MEANS FURTHER HAVING BRUSH MEANS BELOW SAID INTERMEDIATE PORTION AND EXTENDING INTO SAID CONTAINER AND HANDLE MEANS ABOVE SAID INTERMEDIATE PORTION ADAPTABLE TO BEING GRASPED MANUALLY, SAID APPLICATOR MEANS AND BEARING MEMBER FURTHER HAVING MATCHED LATERALLY-EXTENDING SURFACE PORTIONS ADJACENT SAID INTERMEDIATE PORTION COOPERATING TO SEAL SAID NECK PORTION ACROSS THE OPEN TOP THEREOF, SAID MATCHED SURFACE PORTIONS COMPRISING CURVED SURFACES HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL RADII OF CURVATURE.