Nail polish remover kit

• US 4,440,181 A
• Filed: 06/18/1981
• Issued: 04/03/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John S. Scherer
• Original Assignee: John S. Scherer
• Inventors: Scherer, John S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenbaum, C. Fred
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vinyard, Sherri
• Application Number:
  US06/275,114
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: 132/73, 132/73.5, 132/75, 401/7, 401/198, 401/130
• US Class Current: 132/73.5
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 29/007 Nail polish removing devices

Abstract

The invention is a nail polish remover kit for removing nail polish from fingers and toenails. The kit has a pear-shaped jar containing a nail polish remover saturated filler. The filler is constricted at the top by the constricted upper portion of the jar to prevent both rotation of the filler and visual sighting of the sludge at the bottom of the jar, produced by nail polish removal process. The filler possesses an opening for inserting a finger having a nail from which polish is to be removed. The opening may be formed from filler surfaces which are smooth or uneven, and, if uneven, preferably corrugated. The opening is dimensioned so that excess nail polish remover is wiped from the finger as it is removed from the filler. The kit also contains a dauber with an absorbent end that the filler opening is designed to receive. This dauber may be removed from the filler to remove polish from toenails, fingernails, and the like.

Claims

1. A nail polish remover kit comprising, in combination:

a jar having walls which rise from a lower portion to an upper portion said upper portion having an upwardly opening constricted mouth;

a lid for removably sealingly closing the mouth;

a sponge-like filler for insertion in the jar having an upper end which prior to insertion is of greater horizontal cross-sectional area than the corresponding upper portion of the jar and after insertion is compressed inwardly by said upper portion of the jar, said filler having a horizontal cross-section below said upper end which, moving from the lower end, and prior to insertion in the jar. progressively increases relative to the corresponding cross-section of the jar, whereby the upper end of the filler is more highly compacted than the lower end of the filler;

said filler having a centrally arranged finger receiving opening at said upper end extending downwardly through the more densely compacted area and sized to wipe a finger inserted therein; and

a nail polish remover solution in the jar saturating the filler to wet the nail of a finger inserted in said opening.

2. The invention of claim 1 wherein the sponge is compressed inwardly by the mouth of the jar.

3. The invention of claim 2 further comprising swelling of the filler by the nail polish remover solution to aid in holding the filler in place in the jar.

4. The invention of claim 2 wherein the jar is pear shaped.

5. The invention defined by claim 2 characterized by a dauber having an enlarged absorbent end and a narrow handle portion received absorbent-end-first into said opening with the handle portion disposed to be grasped at the mouth of the jar.

6. The invention defined by claim 2 wherein said jar has a side wall diverging outwardly upwardly from the base and thereafter converging upwardly to said constricted mouth;

and

said filler is substantially uncompressed by the side wall adjacent the base of the jar and progressively compressed therefrom toward the mouth of the jar.

7. The invention defined by claim 2 wherein the nail polish remover solution consists essentially of water and acetone in ranges of 86% to 100% acetone.

8. The invention defined by claim 2 wherein the spongelike filler is compressed inwardly by the constricted mouth to increase the capillarity of the filler.

9. The invention defined by claim 2 wherein the finger receiving opening has a diameter lying in the range of from 1/4 inch to 1/2 inches.

10. The invention defined by claim 9 wherein the finger receiving opening extends the entire vertical length of the filler.

11. The invention defined by claim 5 wherein the absorbent end of the dauber is comprised of wool.

12. The invention of claim 2 wherein at least a portion of the surface of the filler defining the finger receiving opening is uneven.

13. The invention of claim 2 wherein at least a portion of the surface of the filler defining the finger receiving opening is corrugated.

14. The invention of claim 13 wherein at least a portion of the surface of the filler defining the finger receiving opening is laterally corrugated.

15. The invention of claim 13 wherein at least a portion of the surface of the filler defining the finger receiving opening is vertically corrugated.

16. The method of removing nail polish comprising the steps of inserting a fingernail coated with nail polish into the finger receiving opening of claim 2;

and moving the fingernail within the finger receiving opening against a surface, whereby removal of the nail polish is effectuated.

17. The method of removing nail polish comprising the steps of inserting a fingernail coated with nail polish into the finger receiving opening of claim 11;

and

moving the fingernail within the finger receiving opening and against a surface thereof, whereby removal of the nail polish is effectuated.

18. The method of claim 10 wherein the fingernail is moved laterally across a laterally corrugated surface of the finger receiving opening.