Mascara brush

• US 9,107,487 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2009
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: L'Oreal SA
• Original Assignee: L'Oreal SA
• Inventors: Gueret, Jean-Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): Chiang, Jennifer C
• Application Number:
  US12/991,760
• Publication Number:
  US 20110129286A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,251 Days
• Field of Search: 401121-122, 401126-130, 132/218
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/207 Vibration, e.g. ultrasound
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/267 comprising a wiper
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/1053 Cosmetics applicator specifically for mascara
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 9/021 arranged like in cosmetics brushes, e.g. mascara, nail polish, eye shadow

Abstract

A reservoir and application device including an applicator having a stem and a brush at the end of this stem, the brush presenting a largest transversal dimension between 9 and 14 mm, the brush being at least 30% wider than it is thick in cross section, a reservoir containing the product to be applied, having a wiper member defining a wiper orifice traversed by the brush when it is removed from the reservoir, the diameter of the wiper orifice being between 2.5 and 5.5 mm.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

an applicator having a stem and a brush at the end of this stem, the brush presenting a largest transversal dimension between 9 and 14 mm, the brush having a width and a thickness that are not equal, the brush being at least 30% wider than the brush is thick in cross section, and the brush having two principal parallel opposing faces defining the thickness of the brush, the brush having a proximal portion comprising a section on which the width remains constant and a distal portion that is of decreasing width adjacent to the section of constant width; and

a reservoir containing the product to be applied, the reservoir having a wiper member defining a wiper orifice traversed by the brush when the brush is removed from the reservoir, a diameter of the wiper orifice being between 2.5 and 5.5 mm, the wiper member having an upper body part defining an entry diameter which is less than or equal to the largest transversal dimension of the brush.

2. The device according to claim 1, the diameter of the wiper orifice being between 2.5 and 4.5 mm.

3. The device according to claim 1, the width of the brush being at least 3 mm greater than the thickness of the brush.

4. The device of claim 1, the thickness of the brush being between 2.5 and 6.5 mm.

5. The device according to claim 1, the difference between the width of the brush and its thickness being equal, within a 30% margin, to the diameter of the wiper orifice.

6. The device of claim 1, said faces being parallel.

7. The device according to claim 1, the stem comprising an elastically deformable distal portion.

8. The device according to claim 1, the brush having a twisted core.

9. The device according to claim 1, the wiper orifice being circular.

10. The device according to claim 1, the values for the width and the thickness of the brush and the diameter of the wiper orifice being those contained in the following table:

11. The device according to claim 10, a ratio of the largest transversal dimension over the thickness of the brush being between 1.3 and 5.

12. The device according to claim 1, the brush comprising lateral faces that are formed by cylindrical sections about the longitudinal axis.

13. The device according to claim 1, the diameter of the wiper orifice being smaller than or equal to half the width of the brush.

14. The device according to claim 1, the proximal portion comprising a chamfer.

15. A device comprising:

an applicator having a stem and a brush at the end of this stem, the brush being constituted by a twisted-wire core with bristles held by the twisted-wire core, the brush presenting a largest transversal dimension between 9 and 14 mm, the brush having a width and a thickness that are not equal, and the brush being at least 30% wider than the brush is thick in cross section, the brush having two principal parallel opposing faces defining the thickness of the brush, and

a reservoir containing the product to be applied, having a wiper member defining a wiper orifice traversed by the brush when the brush is removed from the reservoir, a diameter of the wiper orifice being between 2.5 and 5.5 mm, the wiper member having an upper body part defining an entry diameter which is less than or equal to the largest transversal dimension of the brush, the brush comprising a core having a longitudinal axis that is curved on a plane perpendicular to the principal opposing faces of the brush, the longitudinal axis of the core presenting two curves around axes that are parallel to themselves and parallel to the principal faces of the brush.

16. The device according to claim 15, the principal faces being parallel.

17. The device according to claim 15, the brush comprising lateral faces that are formed by cylindrical sections about the longitudinal axis.