Mascara brush

• US 7,231,926 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2004
• Issued: 06/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AA R&D LLC
• Original Assignee: RND Group, LLC
• Inventors: Kim, Yoon-Hoi
• Primary Examiner(s): Doan; Robyn
• Application Number:
  US10/834,974
• Publication Number:
  US 20040221865A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,145 Days
• Field of Search: 132/218, 132/120, 132/148, 152/06, 401/9, 401/10
• US Class Current: 132/218
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/265 connected to the cap of the container
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/1053 Cosmetics applicator specifically for mascara
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/106 Cosmetics applicator specifically for mascara including comb like element
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 3/18 the bristles being fixed on or between belts or wires
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 7/04 interchangeably removable bristle carriers
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 9/021 arranged like in cosmetics brushes, e.g. mascara, nail polish, eye shadow

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mascara brush. The present invention provides a mascara brush, wherein a single brush rod of the mascara brush is formed with both an application brush part with an application portion for applying a mascara liquid to the eyelashes and an arrangement brush part with a comb for arranging the eyelashes in order to simultaneously perform the application of the mascara liquid and arrangement of the eyelashes, thereby conveniently imparting the effects of clean, long lash and curling to the eyelashes through a single process, the structure of the mascara brush thus being simplified so that the manufacturing process can be relatively streamlined, and stability in use can be obtained due to the securely coupled state.

Claims

1. A mascara brush, comprising:

an application brush part (3) with an application portion (7) formed on an outer circumferential surface of a rod (21) thereof to apply a mascara liquid to the eyelashes; and

an arrangement brush part (4) including a fixing stand (40;

50;

80;

90) coupled to the application brush part (3), and a comb (8) formed on an outer peripheral surface of the fixing stand (40;

50;

80;

90),

wherein the application brush part (3) is formed with a cutaway portion (31;

32) by longitudinally cutting away a section of the application portion (7),

wherein said cutaway portion is formed in an angular range of 30 to 120 degrees about a center of a cross section of the application brush part (3),

the comb (8) is placed in the cutaway portion (31;

32) so that the arrangement brush part (4) is integrated with the application brush part (3),

the fixing stand (40) is sized to correspond to the cutaway portion (31) of the application brush part (3), an upper end of 25 the fixing stand (40) is formed with a fitting hole (42) into which a proximal end of the rod (21) is fixedly inserted and a lower end of the fixing stand (40) is formed with a fitting recess (43) into which a distal end of the rod (21) on the side of the application portion (7) is fixedly inserted, the comb (8) is formed on a side surface (41) of the fixing stand (40) in a longitudinal direction of the fixing stand (40),

the fixing stand (40) has a circular cross section, and

the fitting hole (42) and fitting recess (43) are located at the center of the circular cross section of the fixing stand (40).

2. The mascara brush as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rod (21) of the application brush part (3) is constructed by twisting parts of a metal wire, and the application portion (7) is fixedly formed by interposing a plurality of bristles between the parts of the metal wire and twisting the parts of the metal wire.

3. The mascara brush as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rod (21) of the application brush part (3) is injection molded from a synthetic resin such that the application portion (7) is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the rod (21).

4. The mascara brush as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cutaway portions (32) are formed by cutting away lateral side sections of the application portion (7) that are symmetric with each other with respect to a cross section of the application brush part (3).

5. The mascara brush as claimed in claim 1, wherein one or more columns of combs (8) are formed on the arrangement brush part (4) in a longitudinal direction of the fixing stand (40;

50;

80;

90).

6. The mascara brush as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of columns of combs (8) are formed on the fixing stand (40;

50;

80;

90) in a zigzag manner.