Cosmetic housing

• US 7,878,676 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2008
• Issued: 02/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jacek Helenowski
• Original Assignee: Jacek Helenowski
• Inventors: Helenowski, Jacek
• Primary Examiner(s): Han; Jason Moon
• Application Number:
  US12/229,162
• Publication Number:
  US 20100046209A1
• Time in Patent Office: 895 Days
• Field of Search: 362135-144
• US Class Current: 362/137
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/18 Casings combined with other objects A45D40/24, A45D42/02 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 42/02 Mirrors with lipstick or powder-pads

Abstract

A cosmetic housing (100) includes a first member (101) and a second member (103) couplable with the first member (101), such that a cosmetic (501) is enclosed between the first member (101) and the second member (103), wherein a surface of the first member (101) extends partially and not completely along a part of the outer surface of the second member (103), wherein the first member (101) retains the second member (103).

Claims

1. A cosmetic housing comprising:

a first member comprising an inner surface adjacent to a cavity disposed in the first member, which cavity is adjacent to an axial slot along an outer length of the first member;

a second member couplable with the first member, such that a cosmetic is enclosed between the first member and the second member, wherein the inner surface of the first member extends partially and not completely along a first radial part of an outer circumference of a tubular section of the second member, wherein an axial length of a second radial part of the outer circumference of the second member is visible through the axial slot when the first member retains the second member at least partially within the cavity;

a reflector disposed on the inner surface of the first member, wherein the reflector is visible through the axial slot when the first member is separated from the second member when the housing is open; and

a light source coupled to the cosmetic housing.

2. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein the second member at least one of slidably couples with the first member and snaps into retention with the first member through the axial slot.

3. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein the housing opens when the second member separates from the first member through the axial slot.

4. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein the reflector is a flat mirror.

5. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein the reflector is disposed between the first member and the second member when the first member and the second member are fully closed.

6. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein the outer circumference of the tubular section of the second member is one of circular, triangular, rectangular, and diamond-shaped.

7. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, further comprising a switch that automatically turns on the light source when the first member separates from the second member.

8. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein the light source directs light at an angle non-perpendicular to the cosmetic housing.

9. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein the light source is coupled to the first member.

10. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein the reflector is disposed between the first member and the second member when the first member and the second member are at least partially closed.

11. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein a power source and circuitry for the light source are disposed in the cavity.

12. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein a length of the first member is crescent-shaped and a concave surface of the first member mates with the first part of the outer circumference of the second member that is cylindrically-shaped.

13. The cosmetic housing of claim 1, wherein a power source for the light source is disposed in the cavity, wherein the light source is directed at one of the reflector disposed on the interior surface and within the cavity of the first member, a user of the cosmetic, and an end of the cosmetic.