Patents Assigned to GEKA GmbH
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Patent number: 9282805Abstract: A cosmetic unit, in particular a mascara unit, having a reservoir for containing a cosmetic and having a cosmetic applicator for applying the cosmetic, in which the cosmetic applicator can be inserted into the reservoir so that it is loaded with the cosmetic contained in the reservoir, wherein at least one wall section of the reservoir is elastically embodied so that by exerting pressure on the above-mentioned region, a significant portion of the stored cosmetic can be pushed out of a reservoir region that is farther from the applicator into a reservoir region that is closer to the applicator; the region closer to the applicator is separated from the region farther from the applicator by means of a partition wall that has a plurality of through openings spaced apart from one another through which the cosmetic can be pushed into the region closer to the applicator.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventors: Helmut Stredak, Manuela Geuther
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Patent number: 9113695Abstract: A cosmetics unit, in particular a mascara unit, that includes a storage container for storing the cosmetic to be applied, an applicator which in its stowed position preferably dips into the cosmetic, and a wiper device which wipes off a portion of the cosmetic picked up by the applicator during dipping. The wiper device consists of several wipers that produce a different wiping action and through which the applicator can be passed alternatively.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: GEKA GMBHInventors: Pilar González Gòmez, Benjamin Kohlmann
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Patent number: 9101196Abstract: The cosmetics unit comprises a storage container for accommodating a cosmetic substance, an applicator-handle part with an applicator that can be dipped into the cosmetic substance and a handle connected with the applicator, as well as a securing mechanism for detachably securing the applicator-handle part in a closed position in which the applicator is inserted into the storage container. The securing mechanism comprises a swiveling element that can be swiveled about a swiveling axis, which retains, in a final swiveling position, the applicator-handle part in the closed position. The swiveling element is mounted directly on the storage container or on a separate bearing mount attached to the storage container.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventors: Karl Hartstock-Martin, Jochen Rauschert
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Patent number: 9028161Abstract: A wiper for wiping off a cosmetics applicator during the withdrawal from its storage container, wherein the wiper forms a substantially rectangular passage, which in the non-stressed state is closed off by two mutually opposing wiper lips that are respectively divided into several bending elements which are elastically deformed when the cosmetics applicator is pushed through and thus clear the way for the applicator to pass through the passage.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventors: Helmut Stredak, Manuela Geuther, Erwin Schuster
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Patent number: 8997759Abstract: The invention relates to a cosmetics applicator having a handle section, an applicator element and a shaft section connecting the applicator element and the handle section, wherein the applicator element includes a core element of a first material and a bristle element which at least partially envelops the core element and includes a second material preferably different from the first material with regard to its hardness and/or flexibility.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventor: Dieter Wolfsgruber
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Patent number: 8998521Abstract: A cosmetics container for a liquid or pasty cosmetic, comprising a storage container having a removal opening, and a closure cap for opening and closing this removal opening. The closure cap can be detachably locked in its closing position on the storage container using at least one latching device that acts between the closure cap and the storage container. The cosmetics container further comprises at least one locking device which is able to assume at least one release position and at least one blocking position, and which in the blocking position blocks the latching element in such a way that a lock existing between the closure cap and the storage container cannot be released and the closure cap thus cannot be moved out of its closing position.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventor: Friedrich Weigel
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Patent number: 8950413Abstract: The invention relates to an applicator device comprising a carrier having an application element covering, which includes a plurality of application elements. At least one application element has, along its longitudinal extent, at least one first section closer to the carrier and at least one second section more distant from the carrier, and at least one section of the application element has a curved central longitudinal axis. Central longitudinal axes or their end tangents of the first and second sections, in a transitional zone from the first to the second section, converge in at least one projection onto a sectional plane through the application element so as to form a bend.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventors: Daniela Kulik, Christine Pillipp
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Patent number: 8894309Abstract: A cosmetics unit comprising a storage container and an applicator with two applicator arms, wherein each applicator arm carries one applicator element and the two arms are interconnected by a spring member, wherein the applicator has a bipartite applicator-side closure member for closing the cosmetics container, whose one part is a component of the one applicator arm and whose other part is a component of the other applicator arm, wherein the closure member has a bipartite threaded portion, the one threaded-portion part of which is formed on the one part of the closure member, and the other threaded-portion part of which is formed on the other part of the closure member, and with which the closure member can be screwed on to a container-side closure member.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Geka GmbHInventors: Manuela Geuther, Friedrich Weigel
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Patent number: 8894308Abstract: A wiper for wiping off a pincer-like cosmetics applicator, the wiper comprising a substantially sleeve-shaped wiper body for mounting in a container neck. The passage for the cosmetics applicator formed inside the wiper body is divided, at least in some areas, by a dividing wall into two passage portions extending next to one another, each of which is able to accommodate a part of the cosmetics applicator.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Geka GmbHInventors: Manuela Geuther, Werner Fischer
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Patent number: 8894310Abstract: The cosmetics unit comprises a storage container for accommodating a cosmetic substance, an applicator-handle part with an applicator that can be dipped into the cosmetic substance and a handle connected with the applicator, as well as a securing mechanism for detachably securing the applicator-handle part in a closed position in which the applicator is inserted into the storage container. The securing mechanism comprises a swiveling element that can be swiveled about a swiveling axis, which retains, in a final swiveling position, the applicator-handle part in the closed position. The swiveling element is mounted directly on the storage container or on a separate bearing mount attached to the storage container.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventors: Karl Hartstock-Martin, Jochen Rauschert
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Publication number: 20140314466Abstract: The cosmetics unit comprises a storage container for accommodating a cosmetic substance, an applicator-handle part with an applicator that can be dipped into the cosmetic substance and a handle connected with the applicator, as well as a securing mechanism for detachably securing the applicator-handle part in a closed position in which the applicator is inserted into the storage container. The securing mechanism comprises a swiveling element that can be swiveled about a swiveling axis, which retains, in a final swiveling position, the applicator-handle part in the closed position. The swiveling element is mounted directly on the storage container or on a separate bearing mount attached to the storage container.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: GEKA GmbHInventors: Karl Hartstock, Jochen Rauschert
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Patent number: 8801310Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper for wiping off a cosmetics applicator that includes a retaining section for fixing the wiper on a cosmetics storage container. The wiper includes several wiping organs disposed one behind the other in an operative direction, of which at least one wiping organ is retained on the retaining section or on an adjacent wiping organ either in such a way that that the at least one wiping organ communicates unimpededly both on its front as well as on its rear with a space storing a cosmetic, or only by a plurality of columns.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventor: Daniela Kulik
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Patent number: 8794247Abstract: The invention relates to an applicator device, in particular for a mascara applicator, having a core from which application organs extend. The applicator device can be produced using a primary forming process in which, at least in some portions, the application organs are disposed in a longitudinal extent in rows, as viewed along a longitudinal axis of the core, and comprise a central axis. The central axis of the application organs have at least one undulation with at least one change of curvature, and the central axis of an application organ lies completely or substantially completely within one plane or spanning a plane.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventor: Daniela Kulik
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Patent number: 8783987Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper for wiping off a cosmetics applicator, in particular a wiper for mascara mass applicators, that includes a retaining section for fixing the wiper on a cosmetics storage container. The wiper includes a number of wiper lamellas that shift in a more than just insubstantial extent in a circumferential direction solely under the influence of forces produced by withdrawal of the applicator.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventor: Daniela Kulik
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Patent number: 8783989Abstract: A cosmetic applicator, in particular a mascara applicator, having a first applicator region and at least one additional applicator region in which the applicator regions are connected to each other in movable fashion relative to each other by means of an articulation and/or the additional applicator region is connected to the first applicator region in a way that allows it to be slid in linear fashion relative to the first applicator region. A cosmetic product may also include the applicator.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventors: Friedrich Weigel, Werner Fischer
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Patent number: 8757913Abstract: An applicator for cosmetics, in particular a mascara applicator, having an applicator device embodied in the form of a fan, and applicator elements constituting the fan are movable from a first fan position into a second fan position and/or vice versa, with the applicator elements being folded-in closer to one another in the first fan position or fanned-out farther from one another in the second fan position.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventors: Manuela Geuther, Erwin Schuster
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Patent number: 8726913Abstract: The invention relates to an applicator for applying a decorative cosmetic with a flowable consistency from a storage container, such as in particular mascara, comprising an applicator brush equipped with a bristle area consisting of outwardly protruding bristles and/or bristle discs that comprises stationary bristles and/or bristle discs, wherein the bristle area is additionally formed from mobile bristles and/or bristle discs whose base area can be displaced relative to the base area of the stationary bristles or bristle discs in such a way that a free space between the stationary bristles or bristle discs that can be loaded with the cosmetic by dipping the brush into the reservoir can be arbitrarily varied.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventor: Friedrich Weigel
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Patent number: 8702333Abstract: The invention relates to a quick-fastening applicator closure comprising a cap-side closure member and a container-side closure member which are twisted relative to one another in order to fix the applicator on the storage container associated with it. A multi-start, preferably double-start, short-threaded portion is provided on at least one of the closure members, whose threads are designed in such a way that the two closure members can be brought from a position in which the threads of the short threaded portion grip for the first time into a fully closed position with a rotary movement less than a ? rotation relative to one another, with additional retaining elements being provided which hold the two closure members firmly against each other in addition to the thread friction that is present anyway, once they have reached their fully closed position.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventor: Manuela Geuther
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Patent number: 8702332Abstract: The cosmetics unit (1) comprises a storage container (2) for accommodating a cosmetic substance, an applicator-handle part (3) with an applicator (5) that can be dipped into the cosmetic substance and a handle (6) connected with the applicator (5), as well as a securing mechanism (4) for detachably securing the applicator-handle part (3) in a closed position in which the applicator (5) is inserted into the storage container (2). The securing mechanism (4) comprises a swiveling element (9) that can be swiveled about a swiveling axis (8), which retains, in a final swiveling position, the applicator-handle part (3) in the closed position. The swiveling element (9) is mounted directly on the storage container or on a separate bearing mount (10) attached to the storage container (2).Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: GEKA GmbHInventors: Karl Hartstock, Jochen Rauschert
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Patent number: D749327Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: GEKA GMBHInventors: Gudrun Thierer, Pilar Gonzalez Gomez, Benjamin Kohlmann, Dieter Wolfsgruber