Method for mixing and applying cosmetic to an applicator

• US 5,107,870 A
• Filed: 09/16/1990
• Issued: 04/28/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: FD Management, Inc. (Elizabeth Arden (Financing), Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Elizabeth Arden Company Division of Conopco Incorporated
• Inventors: Beck, Marlene, Vasas, Martin M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): LAVIOLA JR, FRANK
• Application Number:
  US07/578,628
• Time in Patent Office: 590 Days
• Field of Search: 132/216, 132/218, 132/320, 401/17, 401/18, 401/35, 401/36, 401/122, 401/126, 401/129, 15/184, 15/206, 15/207
• US Class Current: 132/218
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/24 Casings for two or more cosmetics
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/265 connected to the cap of the container
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 3/18 the bristles being fixed on or between belts or wires
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 9/021 arranged like in cosmetics brushes, e.g. mascara, nail polish, eye shadow

Abstract

The invention provides a novel method for evenly applying cosmetics, especially mascara, to an applicator brush and to the eyelashes. A cosmetic applicator formed with an applicator brush is removed from a container holding the cosmetic in a manner such that the applicator brush rubs against an applicator brush belonging to another applicator, thereby cleaning the brush to remove loose particles of the cosmetic and also causing cosmetic in the vicinity of the rubbing brushes to mix. This mixing action tends to thin ends of the cylindrical container and wherein the eyelash brushes of each of the cosmetic applicators are positioned along substantially the same longitudinal axis when the cap means of both cosmetic applicators are capped onto the container.

Claims

1. A method for applying cosmetic to an eyelash brush removably inserted into a cosmetic container holding a quantity of cosmetic therein, comprising the step of removing the eyelash brush from the container in a manner such that the eyelash brush being removed rubs against another eyelash brush in the container so as to mix cosmetic in the vicinity of the eyelash brushes.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the cosmetic is thixotropic.

3. The method according to claim 2 wherein the thixotropic cosmetic is mascara.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein the step of removing an eyelash brush is conducted in a manner such that mascara in the vicinity of the eyelash brushes is thinned.

5. The method according to claim 4 wherein the eyelash brushes are comprises of a plurality of bristles and wherein the step of removing an eyelash brush is conducted in a manner such that the bristles of said eyelash brushes engage to thin mascara between the bristles.

6. The method according to claim 5 wherein the step of removing an eyelash brush is conducted by rotating that eyelash brush into contact with another eyelash brush.

7. The method according to claim 2 wherein the step of removing an eyelash brush is conducted in a manner such that cosmetic in the vicinity of the eyelash brushes is thinned.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein the step of removing is conducted in a manner such that dried particles of cosmetic are cleaned from the eyelash brush being removed.

9. A method for applying cosmetic to an eyelash brush of a cosmetic applicator and container, said cosmetic applicator and container comprising a container holding a quantity of cosmetic therein, having at least two openings, each opening for allowing access of an eyelash brush inside of the container, and at least two cosmetic applicators, each cosmetic applicator comprising an eyelash brush and a means coupled to the brush for capping one of the respective openings, said eyelash brushes being removably inserted in the respective openings of said container and capped thereon,

said method comprising the step of removing a cosmetic applicator from the container in a manner such that the eyelash brush belonging to the cosmetic applicator being removed rubs against an eyelash brush belonging to another mascara applicator causing cosmetic in the vicinity of the eyelash brushes to mix.

10. The method according to claim 9 wherein the cosmetic is mascara.

11. The method according to claim 10 wherein the step of removing is conducted in a manner such that mascara in the vicinity of the eyelash brushes is thinned upon rubbing of the eyelash brushes.

12. The method according to claim 9 wherein the eyelash brushes engage each other inside the container when said capping means are capped to the container.

13. A method for applying mascara to an eyelash brush of a mascara applicator and container, said mascara applicator and container comprising a container holding a quantity of mascara therein, having at least two necks, each of said necks defining a bore for allowing access of an applicator wand inside of the container, each of said necks having a plurality of threads around the periphery thereof for allowing rotational coupling of each said necks with a cap means, and at least two mascara applicators, each mascara applicator including an applicator wand, an eyelash brush, fixedly wrapped around the periphery of said wand at a free end segment thereof, and a cap means having a bore therein which terminates at a closed end of said cap means, said wand being attached to the closed end of the cap means at a non-free end of the wand, said cap means having a plurality of threads on the surface of its bore which are releasably engaged with the threads on a neck of the container, said applicator wands being removably inserted in the respective bores of said container and capped thereon,

said method comprising the step of removing a mascara applicator from the container in a manner such that the eyelash brush belonging to the mascara applicator being removed rubs against an eyelash brush belonging to another mascara applicator causing mascara in the vicinity of the eyelash brushes to mix.

14. The method according to claim 13 wherein the eyelash brush engage each other inside the container when said cap means are capped to the container.

15. A method for applying cosmetic to an eyelash brush of a cosmetic applicator and container, said cosmetic applicator and container comprising a cylindrical container holding a quantity of cosmetic therein having an opening at each of two opposite ends of the container for allowing access of an eyelash brush inside of the container, and a pair of cosmetic applicators, each applicator including an eyelash brush coupled to a means for capping an opening of the container, said eyelash brushes being removably inserted into respective openings of said container and capped thereon, said eyelash brushes of both cosmetic applicators being positioned along substantially the same longitudinal axis,

said method comprising the step of removing a cosmetic applicator from the container in a manner such that the eyelash brush belonging to the cosmetic applicator being removed rubs against an eyelash brush belonging to another cosmetic applicator causing cosmetic in the vicinity of the eyelash brushes to mix.

16. The method according to claim 15 wherein the cosmetic is mascara.

17. The method according to claim 16 wherein the eyelash brushes are comprised of a plurality of bristles and wherein the step of removing is conducted in a manner such that the bristles of the eyelash brushes engage so as t thin mascara between the bristles.

18. The method according to claim 15 wherein the eyelash brushes engage each other inside the container when said capping means are capped to the container.