Patents by Inventor Dieter Wolfsgruber

Dieter Wolfsgruber has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10064475
    Abstract: A cosmetic applicator having a core that supports the application elements in the form of bristles and/or comb tines; the core has a central body that is itself equipped with a plurality of bristles and/or comb tines protruding out directly from it; the core is also composed of at least one arm that protrudes out from the central body and is itself equipped with a plurality of bristles and/or comb tines and is mobile relative to the central body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: GEKA GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Wolfsgruber, Pilar Kempe-Gonzalez, Nicholas Bakic, Erwin Schuster
  • Patent number: 10028572
    Abstract: A brush with a bristle support tube and a set of injection-molded bristles, which are affixed to the bristle support tube, extend through the outer wall of the bristle support tube, and are of one piece with a plastic element that fills at least a part of the inside of the bristle support tube; the interior of the bristle support tube has at least one dividing wall that divides the interior of the bristle support tube into compartments that are separate from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: GEKA GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Patent number: 9788644
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a brush, particularly in the form of a mascara applicator, with bristles injection molded out of different injection molding compounds, using an injection mold that has a main cavity, which forms the bristle support, and secondary cavities branching off from this, with each secondary cavity forming a single bristle and with at least one first injection molding compound being injected into the main cavity, followed by a second injection molding compound in successive steps; at least one slider is inserted into the main cavity and closes part of the secondary cavities so that the first injection molding compound only travels into another part of the secondary cavities after which the slider is withdrawn and the second injection molding compound is injected so that it travels into the secondary cavities previously closed by the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: GEKA GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Publication number: 20150366325
    Abstract: A cosmetic applicator (1) having a core bearing the applicator devices in the form of bristles (6) and/or teeth of a comb, in which the core includes a central body (2) that is preferably also itself occupied by many bristles (6) and/or teeth that are spaced apart directly from it outward; the core includes at least one vane (3a, 3b, . . . 3n) protruding outward from the central body (2), and this vane is in turn occupied by a plurality of bristles (6) and/or teeth and is movable relative to the central body (2), and the vane (3a, 3b, . . . 3n) has a plurality of hinges, spaced apart from one another, by means of each of which it is pivotably connected only locally to the central body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventor: Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Publication number: 20150216286
    Abstract: A cosmetic applicator having a core that supports the application elements in the form of bristles and/or comb tines; the core has a central body that is itself equipped with a plurality of bristles and/or comb tines protruding out directly from it; the core is also composed of at least one arm that protrudes out from the central body and is itself equipped with a plurality of bristles and/or comb tines and is mobile relative to the central body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Dieter Wolfsgruber, Pilar Gonzales-Gomes, Nicholas Bakic, Erwin Schuster
  • Publication number: 20150164207
    Abstract: A brush with a bristle support tube and a set of injection-molded bristles, which are affixed to the bristle support tube, extend through the outer wall of the bristle support tube, and are of one piece with a plastic element that fills at least a pan of the inside of the bristle support tube; the interior of the bristle support tube has at least one dividing wall that divides the interior of the bristle support tube into compartments that are separate from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventor: Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Patent number: 8997759
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: GEKA GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Publication number: 20140376988
    Abstract: Cosmetics applicator 1, in particular, having the form of a mascara applicator with a cap 3 forming a grip area 2 for tight closing of a cosmetics reservoir, which as one piece turns into a shaft 4 protruding from it which shaft 4, in turn, as one piece forms a handle segment 5 and a bristle-carrying segment 6 with the bristle-carrying segment 6 as such having a hollow structure and supporting injected bristles 7 which are integrally connected with a plastic core 8 covering or filling the inside of the bristle-carrying segment 6 through the wall of the bristle-carrying segment 6 with the cap 3 and the shaft 4 preferably consisting of a different plastic material than the plastic core 8 and the bristles 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Werner Fischer, Karl Hartstock-Martin, Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Publication number: 20140037364
    Abstract: The invention concerns a brush for metered application of a cosmetic or pharmaceutical liquid with a configuration from a number of at least essentially parallel-arranged bristles, which are grouped around a configuration center, in which the bristles are molded onto a bristle support, the configuration having an outer configuration area enclosing the configuration center in the peripheral direction, in which the bristle density is higher than in the inner configuration area enclosed by the outer configuration area and/or whose bristles are finer than the bristles of the inner configuration area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: GEKA GMBH
    Inventors: Karl Hartstock, Gudrun Thierer, Dieter Wolfsgruber, Christina Zech, Rainer Kemnitzer
  • Publication number: 20140001819
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a brush, particularly in the form of a mascara applicator, with bristles injection molded out of different injection molding compounds, using an injection mold that has a main cavity, which forms the bristle support, and secondary cavities branching off from this, with each secondary cavity forming a single bristle and with at least one first injection molding compound being injected into the main cavity, followed by a second injection molding compound in successive steps; at least one slider is inserted into the main cavity and closes part of the secondary cavities so that the first injection molding compound only travels into another part of the secondary cavities after which the slider is withdrawn and the second injection molding compound is injected so that it travels into the secondary cavities previously closed by the slider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventor: Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Patent number: 8528572
    Abstract: The part of a cosmetics unit is an applicator in the form of a brush (1). It is implemented as a sandwich injection-molded part consisting of two different plastic component s (9a, 11a). A first inner plastic component (11a) is injected by means of a single joint injection point (14) into a second outer plastic component (9a). The first inner plastic component (11a) and the second outer plastic component (9a) precisely rest against each other everywhere with regard to their contours. A connecting area is formed, so as to be free of gaps everywhere, between the first inner plastic component (11a) and the second outer plastic component (9a). The second outer plastic component (9a) completely encloses the first inner plastic component (11a), with the exception of the injection point (14). The sandwich injection-molded part (1) has a total weight of at most 10 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Geka GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Schwab, Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Publication number: 20120211019
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: GEKA GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Publication number: 20100307529
    Abstract: The part of a cosmetics unit is an applicator in the form of a brush (1). It is implemented as a sandwich injection-molded part consisting of two different plastic component s (9a, 11a). A first inner plastic component (11a) is injected by means of a single joint injection point (14) into a second outer plastic component (9a). The first inner plastic component (11a) and the second outer plastic component (9a) precisely rest against each other everywhere with regard to their contours. A connecting area is formed, so as to be free of gaps everywhere, between the first inner plastic component (11a) and the second outer plastic component (9a). The second outer plastic component (9a) completely encloses the first inner plastic component (11a), with the exception of the injection point (14). The sandwich injection-molded part (1) has a total weight of at most 10 g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: GEKA BRUSH GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Schwab, Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Patent number: 6612764
    Abstract: In a cosmetic applicator unit that comprises two different applicators, each having a stem, the applicators being interconnected in the vicinity of the free ends of the stems, it is provided that each applicator is lodged in a reservoir; that each reservoir has a neck with an external thread; and that the necks are screwed into coupling members for interconnection of the two reservoirs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Geka Brush GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Dumler, Dieter Wolfsgruber, Werner Fischer
  • Publication number: 20030053839
    Abstract: In a cosmetic applicator unit that comprises two different applicators, each having a stem, the applicators being interconnected in the vicinity of the free ends of the stems, it is provided that each applicator is lodged in a reservoir; that each reservoir has a neck with an external thread; and that the necks are screwed into coupling members for interconnection of the two reservoirs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Norbert Dumler, Dieter Wolfsgruber, Werner Fischer
  • Publication number: 20020018688
    Abstract: In a cosmetic applicator unit that comprises two different applicators, each having a stem, the applicators being interconnected in the vicinity of the free ends of the stems, it is provided that each applicator is lodged in a reservoir; that each reservoir has a neck with an external thread; and that the necks are screwed into coupling members for interconnection of the two reservoirs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Applicant: Geka Brush GMBH
    Inventors: Norbert Dumler, Dieter Wolfsgruber, Werner Fischer
  • Patent number: 6158913
    Abstract: In a mascara unit comprising an applicator fixed to a holder and a reservoir for mascara, the applicator dipping into the reservoir in the condition of non-use and transport and being movable out of the reservoir for the application of mascara, it is provided that the applicator and the reservoir are designed as a unit so that the applicator can be moved out of and into the reservoir through actuation by one hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: georg karl geka-brush GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Dumler, Werner Fischer, Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Patent number: 5810497
    Abstract: In a screw cap reservoir, in particular for a cosmetic such as nail enamel, comprising a neck having an external thread on which to screw the internal thread of the screw cap, an encircling shoulder being formed on the neck in the portion below the external thread, this shoulder having at least one stop in the form of a projection which, extending over a certain angle at circumference, projects upwards from the annular shoulder, and stop recesses being provided on the lower edge of the screw cap, which cooperate with the stop projections and which snap-engage with the stop projections when the screw cap is screwed on so that the screw cap is arrested in a defined final position by resistance to return motion, it is provided, with a view to achieving a defined closing condition accompanied by a pronounced click effect, that in a portion approximately above each stop recess, the peripheral surface of the screw cap is provided with a recess tapering the wall thickness or breaching the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: georg karl geka-brush GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Bachmann, Norbert Dumler, Werner Fischer, Dieter Wolfsgruber
  • Patent number: D749327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: GEKA GMBH
    Inventors: Gudrun Thierer, Pilar Gonzalez Gomez, Benjamin Kohlmann, Dieter Wolfsgruber