Cosmetic unit, especially mascara unit

• US 7,309,183 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2005
• Issued: 12/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: GEKA GmbH (Sulzer AG)
• Original Assignee: GEKA GmbH (Sulzer AG)
• Inventors: Dumler, Norbert
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Khoa D.
• Application Number:
  US11/159,212
• Publication Number:
  US 20050286965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 908 Days
• Field of Search: 401/122, 401/121, 401/126, 401/129, 132/212, 132/218
• US Class Current: 401/155
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/267 comprising a wiper

Abstract

A cosmetic unit, especially a mascara unit, comprises a storage container for a mascara liquid, a closing cap for placing onto the storage container, an applicator rod incorporating an applicator and extending away from the inside of the closing cap through an orifice, and a wiper means placed in the orifice of the container, wherein the wiper means extends sufficiently far from the edge of the orifice into the interior of the container so that the wiper orifice or the wiper lips of the wiper means, when the applicator is in the inserted condition, extend to the region of the proximal edge of the applicator.

Claims

1. A cosmetic unit, especially a mascara unit, comprising a storage container for a mascara liquid, a closing cap for placing onto the storage container, an elastic applicator rod incorporating an applicator and extending away from the inside of the closing cap through an orifice of the container, and a wiper element fixed in the orifice of the container, wherein the wiper element (11) tapers at the same angle from the edge of the orifice (3) into the interior of the container (2) over the entire length thereof to an annular wiper orifice or annular wiper lips so that the wiper orifice (15) or the wiper lips (16) of the wiper element (11), when the applicator (10) is in the inserted condition, are substantially adjacent to the proximal edge of the applicator (10) and, in the inserted condition, the applicator rod (9) is enclosed along an entire length thereof within the wiper element (11) without the applicator rod closing the wiper element, wherein the applicator (10) is located outside the wiper element, and wherein the rod (9) is thin and has a smaller diameter compared to the diameter of the applicator (10).

2. A cosmetic unit according to claim 1, wherein the wiper element (11) has an intrinsic stiffness such that it remains substantially rigid despite its distal extension when the applicator (10) is withdrawn.

3. A cosmetic unit according to claim 1, wherein the wiper element (11) has an elongated, frusto-conical basic shape.

4. A cosmetic unit according to claim 1, wherein the applicator (10) consists of synthetic material.

5. A cosmetic unit according to claim 1, wherein the wiper lips (16) have, at the wiper orifice (15) a radius of 0.2 to 5.0 mm.

6. A cosmetic unit according to claim 1, wherein the wiper lips (16) are composed of rubber and produced by means of injection molding and vulcanizing.