Beauty care product

• US 9,289,045 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2014
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wella Operations US LLC
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: Kopulos, Christopher Robert, Akinbobola, Victor, Finley, Alton Lloyd III, Joseph, Matthew David, Ruebusch, Nicholas Arthur
• Primary Examiner(s): Ackun, Jacob K
• Application Number:
  US14/265,722
• Publication Number:
  US 20140331416A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 19/0066 Coloring or bleaching
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/058 Means for mixing different substances prior to application
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/25 Kits
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 7/04 chemical
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 2800/87 Application Devices; Containers; Packaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/0204 Specific forms not provided for by any of groups A61K8/0208 - A61K8/14
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/22 Peroxides; Oxygen; Ozone
• CPC Class Codes: A61Q 5/08 Preparations for bleaching the hair
• CPC Class Codes: A61Q 5/10 Preparations for permanently dyeing the hair
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/0207 characterised by material, e.g. composition, physical features
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/0223 characterised by shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/023 Neck construction
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/32 Containers adapted to be temporarily deformed by external pressure to expel contents B65D47/2018, B65D83/0055 take precedence ; containers for pharmaceutical purposes A61J1/20, A61M5/19; containers with disinfecting linings A61L2/00; liquid sprayers B05B; oil cans F16N3/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2501/0081 Bottles of non-circular cross-section
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 79/0084 in the sidewall or shoulder part thereof

Abstract

A beauty care product comprising a sealable plastic container, a sealing means and a beauty care component is provided, wherein the container of which is resistant to random, uncontrolled deformation under a substantial pressure differential between the environment and inside the container, yet having an affordable cost of manufacture and/or being appealing to the consumer. A kit comprising said product thereof, a method of manufacturing said product, and a method of using said product for application onto skin and/or hair are also provided.

Claims

1. A beauty care product comprising:

(a) a sealable plastic container comprising a base section, a body section, and a neck section forming an aperture;

said sections delimiting an inner reservoir;

(b) a sealing means, affixed onto the neck section of the container;

(c) a beauty care component, contained within the reservoir of the container;

wherein the reservoir comprises upon storage no more than about 70% of the component by total volume of the reservoir, the remaining volume being filled with gas;

wherein the body section is four-paneled and comprises a non-collapsible squeezable front panel, two symmetrical collapsible side panels and a non-collapsible squeezable back panel;

wherein the ratio of the average thicknesses between front and/or back panels and the side panels is at least 2;

1.

2. The product according to claim 1, wherein the side panels are temporarily deformable in response to a substantial pressure differential between the environment and inside the reservoir of the container.

3. The product according to claim 1, wherein the front and/or back panels have an average thickness of from about 0.50 mm to about 3 mm.

4. The product according to claim 1, wherein the sides panels have an average thickness of from 0.25 mm to about 1.5 mm.

5. The product according to claim 1, wherein the container further comprises a shoulder section, joining the body section to the neck section.

6. The product according to claim 1, wherein the reservoir has a total volume of from about 20 ml to about 1500 ml.

7. The product, according to claim 1, wherein the remaining volume of the reservoir is filled with ambient air.

8. The product according to claim 1, wherein the body section is an extended hollow body section;

and wherein the panels are substantially non-planar relative to the horizontal plane.

9. The product, according to claim 1, wherein the panels are substantially non-planar relative to the horizontal plane.

10. The product according to claim 1, wherein the container has a width of from about 20 mm to about 105 mm, a length of from about 20 mm to about 80 mm, and a height of from about 50 mm to about 300 mm.

11. The product according to claim 1, wherein the sealing means is releasably-affixed onto the neck section of the container.

12. The product according to claim 1, wherein the component is a hair coloring and/or hair bleaching component comprising a total amount of oxidizing agent ranging from about 3% to about 12%, by weight of the total component.

13. The product according to claim 1, wherein the container is made of plastics.

14. The product according to claim 13, wherein the container is made of high-density polyethylene.

15. The product according to claim 1, wherein the beauty care component is a hair coloring and/or hair bleaching component comprising a total amount of oxidizing agent ranging from about 3% to about 12%, by weight of the total component.

16. The product according to claim 1, the container is made of high-density polyethylene and is substantially free of polyethylene terephtalate.

17. A beauty care kit comprising:

(a) a beauty care product comprising;

sealable plastic container comprising a base section, a body section, and a neck section forming an aperture;

said sections delimitating an inner reservoir;

a sealing means, affixed onto the neck section of the container;

a beauty care component, contained within the reservoir of the container;

wherein the reservoir comprises upon storage no more than about 70% of the component by total volume of the reservoir, the remaining volume being filled with gas;

wherein the body section is four-paneled and comprises a non-collapsible squeezable front panel, two symmetrical collapsible side panels and a non-collapsible squeezable back panel;

wherein the ratio of the average thicknesses between front and/or back panels and the side panels is at least 2;

1;

(b) at least one additional product, selected from the group consisting of a product comprising a packaged component, a tool, an instruction sheet, or combinations thereof.

18. The kit according to claim 17, wherein the packaged component is selected from a tint component comprising at least one primary precursor, a component comprising at least one secondary precursor, a conditioning component comprising at least one conditioning active ingredient.

19. The kit according to claim 17, wherein the beauty care component is a hair coloring and/or hair bleaching component comprising a total amount of oxidizing agent ranging from about 3% to about 12%, by weight of the total component.