Makeup liquid container with applicator

• US 5,052,837 A
• Filed: 08/14/1990
• Issued: 10/01/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Company Limited
• Inventors: Iizuka, Shigeo, Mizushima, Hiroshi, Kishi, Takao, Ogawa, Riichi
• Primary Examiner(s): DeMille, Danton D.
• Application Number:
  US07/567,167
• Time in Patent Office: 413 Days
• Field of Search: 401/4, 401/129, 401/122, 401/130, 401/127, 401/126, 401/128, 132/317
• US Class Current: 401/4
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 34/048 with stirring means
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/265 connected to the cap of the container
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/267 comprising a wiper
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 33/25 Mixers with loose mixing elements, e.g. loose balls in a receptacle
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 33/253 using sliders or cylindrical elements as loose mixing element
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 33/5011 portable during use, e.g. hand-held
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/3202 Hand driven
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/32021 Shaking by hand a portable receptacle or stirrer for mixing

Abstract

A makeup liquid container designed to enable scraping a makeup liquid off the inner surface of the container. The container has a container body with an opening, a cap fitted on the container body so as to close the opening, an applicator shaft fixed at its one end to the container body and adapted to be inserted into the container body when the cap is fitted on the container body, and an applicator such as a brush fixed to the other end of the applicator shaft. The container further has a slider capable of sliding along the inner surface of the container body so as to scrape makeup liquid off the inner surface of the container body. The sliding motion of the slider is caused by the applicator shaft which is moved into and out of the container body when the user pulls or presses the cap up and down or, alternatively, the slider is freed from the applicator shaft so as to move up and down in the container body as the container body is shaken.

Claims

1. A makeup liquid container with an applicator, comprising:

an elongated container body having an opening and containing a makeup liquid;

a squeezing sleeve fixedly fitted in the opening of said container body;

a cap screwed to the outer surface of an open neck of said container body;

an applicator shaft fixed at its one end to said cap and extending downward therefrom into said container body through said squeezing sleeve;

an applicator fixed to the other end of said applicator shaft; and

a cylindrical slider received in said container body, said slider comprising a cylindrical member and a weight, the cylindrical member having a skirt in slight pressure contact with the inner surface of said container body and movable up and down along said inner surface of said container body so as to scrape makeup liquid off said inner surface of said container body when said container is shaken up and down.