Wiping device for a fluid product applicator assembly

• US 5,490,737 A
• Filed: 05/26/1994
• Issued: 02/13/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: L'Oréal SA
• Original Assignee: L'Oreal SA
• Inventors: Gueret, Jean-Louis H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bratlie, Steven A.
• Application Number:
  US08/249,616
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 401/122, 401/129, 132/218
• US Class Current: 401/122
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/267 comprising a wiper

Abstract

Assembly for applying a fluid product, particularly a cosmetic product, including a bottle, a cap to close the bottle, an applicator arranged at an end of a wand attached to the cap, and a wiping device equipped with a lip and fastened to the bottle. The lip of the wiping device includes flocking fibers. When the cap is fastened on the bottle the wand passes through the lip and the applicator is submerged in the fluid product in the bottle. When the cap is removed from the bottle, the applicator passes entirely through the wiping device. The flocking fibers remove excess fluid product from the applicator.

Claims

1. Assembly for applying a fluid product, comprising:

a bottle for containing the fluid product;

a cap fastened on the bottle for closing the bottle;

an applicator arranged at an end of a wand attached to the cap; and

a wiping device equipped with a lip having an opening about which flocking fibers are attached, said wiping device being fastened to the bottle,

wherein, when the cap is fastened on the bottle, the wand passes through the opening in the lip and the applicator is entirely submerged in the fluid product in the bottle and, when the cap is removed from the bottle, the wand passes through the opening and the applicator passes entirely through the wiping device.

2. Assembly according to claim 1, wherein the flocking fibers are made from one of nylon, cotton, polyester and rayon.

3. Assembly according to claim 1, wherein the flocking fibers have a length of between 0.2 and 2 mm.

4. Assembly according to claim 1, wherein a space exists between the wand and the lip, the wand has, in cross section, dimensions smaller than the dimensions of the opening and the flocking fibers fill in the space between the lip and the wand.

5. Assembly according to claim 4, wherein the wand includes a first portion and a second restricted portion corresponding to the position of the lip when the cap is fastened, and the flocking fibers fill in the space between the lip and the restricted portion of the wand.

6. Assembly according to claim 1, wherein the opening is one of circular, oval, square and star-shaped.

7. Assembly according to claim 1, wherein the wiping device includes one of a continuous skirt, a skirt having a split, and two wiping stages.

8. Assembly according to claim 1, wherein the wiping device has two stages, only one of which is flocked.

9. Assembly according to claim 1, wherein the opening has a maximum dimension in cross section, of between 2 mm and 15 mm.

10. Assembly according to claim 1, wherein the applicator is one of a brush, a tip made from plastic, a tip made from capillary foam, a tip equipped with flocking, a fine brush and a felt.