On Piston And Manual Actuator Patents (Class 401/174)
  • Patent number: 11317709
    Abstract: The disposable toothpaste-dispensing toothbrush is a toothbrush. The disposable toothpaste-dispensing toothbrush is configured for use in brushing the teeth of a patient. The disposable toothpaste-dispensing toothbrush is a disposable structure. The disposable toothpaste-dispensing toothbrush contains a toothpaste. The disposable toothpaste-dispensing toothbrush dispenses the toothpaste before the use of the disposable toothpaste-dispensing toothbrush. The disposable toothpaste-dispensing toothbrush comprises a brush structure and a protective housing. The protective housing encloses the brush structure. The brush structure: a) contains the toothpaste; b) dispenses the toothpaste; and, c) generates an abrasion used to clean the teeth of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Suzanne Khalili, Sandra Khalili, Jasmine Newman
  • Patent number: 10427859
    Abstract: A dispenser (1) suitable for delivery of a cream, gel or soft solid composition comprising: (vi) a convex applicator surface (6) at an upper end; (vii) a replaceable cartridge (12) containing a composition to be dispensed; (viii) a passageway between the cartridge and the applicator surface; (ix) a drive mechanism for forcing the composition from the cartridge through the passageway and onto the applicator surface; and (x) an outer body (3) containing features (ii) to (iv); the drive mechanism comprising a dial unit (4) and a plunger (47), rotation of the dial unit (4) in a first direction advancing the plunger (47) axially upwards, the plunger (47) acting upon a piston seal (8) at the base of the replaceable cartridge (12), thereby forcing the contained composition upwards and outwards through the passageway and onto the applicator surface (6); rotation of the dial unit (4) in a second direction, counter to the first, rotationally re-setting the dial unit (4) relative to the plunger (47) in readiness for a f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Lewis Bilton, Christopher John Jones, Rebecca Anne Nelson, Benjamin George Oglesby, Guy Richard Thompson, Iain Andrew Weddell
  • Patent number: 10076182
    Abstract: A method of providing a visual indication of depletion of an oral care fluid. In one aspect, the method provides a visual indication of depletion of an oral care fluid contained within a reservoir of an oral care implement having a delivery member formed of a capillary material. The method includes: a) providing an indicator fluid in the reservoir with the oral care fluid, the oral care fluid being a different color than the indicator fluid and immiscible with respect to the indicator fluid; and b) upon depletion of the oral care fluid from the reservoir, delivering the indicator fluid to a visible portion of the deliver member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Madhusudan Patel, Suman Chopra, Thomas J. Boyd
  • Patent number: 9924777
    Abstract: The liquid substance advancing container is constructed such that the piston is formed of a sealing part in a front part of the piston that comes in sliding contact with an inner wall of a reservoir of the barrel body and a bar member in the rear part of the piston that has a threaded section on the inner or outer periphery, is movable in a axial direction and is restrained form moving with respect to the rotational direction, a front bar-like part extended forward from the handle is formed with a threaded section that is directly or indirectly screw-fitted to the threaded section of the bar member in the rear part of the piston, and, as the handle is rotated relative to the barrel body, the piston advances and then after full advance of the piston the front bar-like part can extend and retract by multiple stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Mitsuru Endou, Atsushi Nakashima, Nobuyuki Nakajima, Yuusuke Kyogoku, Tetsuaki Akaishi, Hiroshi Satou, Yukako Shinmura, Hisami Tamano
  • Patent number: 9839283
    Abstract: An oral care implement with product application. In one embodiment, the implement is a fluid dispensing toothbrush having a body comprised of a handle, a head, and an internal cavity containing an oral care material. The head includes tooth cleaning elements and an applicator in fluid communication with the internal cavity. In one embodiment, the applicator includes at least one spring-actuated valve operable to dispense the fluidic oral care material upon engagement with a user's oral tissue. The oral care material is delivered from the internal cavity upon applying a pressing force to a moveable sealing element of the valve. In certain embodiments, a pressurizer may be provided to pressurize the oral care material for positive dispensing. In one embodiment, the applicator is disposed in a soft tissue cleaner on the toothbrush head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY
    Inventors: Francis Tatu, Kathryn Neal, Sharon Kennedy, Brian G. Worthington, Eduardo J. Jimenez
  • Patent number: 9375068
    Abstract: In a click-type applicator, when the propelling element is moved forwards by a clicking operation, the advancing motion is transformed into a rotary motion of a transfer cam element in one direction by the function of guide slots of the propelling element and projected parts so that when a cam portion of transfer cam element meshes with a cam portion at the rear of a rotary cam element, the rotation of the transfer cam element causes rotary cam element to rotate and thereby move the screw shaft and hence a piston forwards. On the other hand, by releasing the clicking operation, propelling element is moved backwards due to the repulsive force of a spring, and the backward motion is transformed into a rotary motion of transfer cam element in the other direction by the function of the guide slots and projected parts so as to restore the original position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroaki Koyama
  • Patent number: 8978934
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a viscous fluid stored directly within the body of the dispenser, or within a cartridge inserted within the dispenser in which the viscous fluid is forced through a dispensing aperture by advancing a piston member and where the piston is advanced by turning a first thread member that locates in the female thread of a main body member and where upon completion of such turning resilient means are provided to partly reverse the direction in which the first thread member was turned and so avoid unwanted flow of fluid following completion of such turning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Twistub Limited
    Inventor: Simon Levesley
  • Publication number: 20150030373
    Abstract: A toothbrush has a head with bristles, a stem and a handle. A replaceable cartridge containing toothpaste is positioned within the handle. The cartridge includes a threaded rod and plunger. When a torque force is applied to the threaded rod the plunger may move longitudinally through the cartridge. This forces toothpaste from the cartridge and through a conduit in the handle to the head. He had includes one or more mechanisms for dispensing toothpaste on the bristles. The cartridge includes a nozzle having an integral one-way valve which extrudes the toothpaste. The head includes one or more nozzles which have an integral one-way valve which extrudes the toothpaste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Anthony Perera
  • Patent number: 8936408
    Abstract: In the liquid material feeding container, a piston is formed with a seal portion at a front portion thereof, being sliding in contact with an inner wall of a housing portion of a barrel body, and a cylindrical portion having projections in an outer periphery of a rear end portion and a female thread portion in an inner periphery thereof, and in an outer peripheral surface of the front portion extending frontward from the above-described operating portion of the above-described rotating element, a male thread portion is formed, and in the above-described barrel body, a space of the housing portion is formed in a frontward portion and a groove portion with which the projection is engaged is formed in a backward portion along an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takeo Fukumoto, Satoru Sumiyoshi, Mitsuru Endou
  • Patent number: 8899860
    Abstract: A dispenser for stick material that is suitable for bottom filling comprises a barrel (2) having at one end a base (6) with a central hollow boss with integrally moulded mountings for a separately moulded spindle having at one end at least two opposed struts terminating in means to engage with the mountings in the boss. Preferably, the spindle snaps fits with the boss. Preferably, the spindle has two struts that align with spokes within a skeletal platform (30) that link a filling ring therein to its rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Conopco Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Martin Christopher Bunce, Geoffrey Stephen Mawtus, Alex Sandor Szekely, Juraj Ulik
  • Publication number: 20140178118
    Abstract: An eyelash-adhesive dispensing pen includes a pen unit and an ejecting unit. The pen unit includes a pen body defining an inner hole, an adhesive outlet, and a fixed member disposed fixedly within the pen body and formed with a threaded hole. The ejecting unit includes a rotating shaft threaded within the threaded hole, and an adhesive pushing block disposed on the rotating shaft to define an adhesive receiving chamber for receiving an eyelash adhesive therein. The rotating shaft is rotatable relative to the fixed member to move the adhesive pushing block toward the adhesive outlet to thereby eject the eyelash adhesive out of the adhesive receiving chamber through the adhesive outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Taiwan Advanced Sterilization Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Peng-Chieh Wu, Wen-Hsuan Liao, Wei-Hsuan Liao
  • Patent number: 8727652
    Abstract: An oral care system, such as a toothbrush having a detachable dispenser containing an oral care material. In one embodiment, the dispenser may include a housing; an internal reservoir for containing a fluid and a dispensing orifice for dispensing the fluid; a first cam surface, the first cam surface being non-rotatable with respect to the housing; a reciprocator comprising an actuator, a drive screw, and a second cam surface, the reciprocator being rotatable with respect to the housing; an elevator forming a transverse end wall of the reservoir, the elevator being non-rotatable with respect to the housing and threadily coupled to the drive screw; wherein rotation of the actuator causes the elevator to (1) axially advance, and (2) axially reciprocate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Eduardo Jimenez, Sharon Kennedy, Robert Moskovich, John Gatzemeyer, Alan Sorrentino, Michael Rooney, Joseph Fattori
  • Patent number: 8721211
    Abstract: A dispenser for spreadable foodstuffs and other spreadable non-food substances allowing for spreading without the need for additional utensils not a part of the packaging is disclosed. The dispenser may rapidly switch between different disposable cartridges and is designed for an extended useful lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Consumer Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Francis Kiss deVirag, Alexander Sterling Wise, Ileen Rosner, Jonathan Rosner
  • Patent number: 8636435
    Abstract: A dispensing system for spreadable foodstuffs and spreadable non-food substances allowing for dispensing of metered amounts of product and spreading without the need for additional utensils not part of the packaging is disclosed. The system is composed of a disposable container containing a spreadable food stuff or non-food substance. The container comprises a mechanism for dispensing said foodstuff or non-food substances while proportionally decreasing the volume of the container. An alternative embodiment discloses a disposable dispenser allowing for spreading foodstuffs or non-food substances without any additional utensils in an ultra-portable unit without mechanical components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Innovative Consumer Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Rosner, Alexander Sterling Wise, Francis Kiss deVirag, Ileen Rosner
  • Patent number: 8579533
    Abstract: Provided is a container for a viscous cosmetic such that even when the viscous cosmetic makes contact with the applicator comprised of silicone resin there is little swelling of said applicator and the quality of the viscous cosmetic container is well maintained. An applicator made of silicone resin inside which is formed a flow-way which can communicate with a housing for internally housing a viscous cosmetic is connected to one end of the housing. A distributing port which communicates with the flow-way is formed in the applying-surface of the applicator and the viscous cosmetic within the housing can be discharged outward from the distributing port. The degree of swelling of the applicator produced by contact with the viscous cosmetic is set to from 0 wt % to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Shiseido Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaori Sasada, Naomi Shimamura, Ken Taguchi, Yuuki Ogura
  • Patent number: 8545121
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus is provided, which, when filled with product and assembled, substantially reduces product leakage from an orifice of an applicator thereof during extended periods of non-use. The dispensing apparatus includes a barrel defining an interior chamber for holding a product, the barrel having an open bottom at one end thereof and an applicator tip having one or more orifices therethrough at the other end. The barrel also includes two or more passages located along the length of the barrel between the bottom of the barrel and a predetermined fill-level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Avon Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Arvind N. Shah
  • Patent number: 8529150
    Abstract: A toothbrush device having a body defining a cavity and an input port disposed on the body in fluid communication with the cavity. The input port permits brushing by-products to pass through the input port and into the cavity while restricting passage of the brushing by-products outward from the cavity. In one form, the toothbrush device includes an elongated handle with a reservoir having at least a portion disposed within the handle. The reservoir is sized to hold a predetermined amount of oral care product, and a mouthpiece is in fluid communication with the reservoir to discharge the oral care product from the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Inventor: Richard Carl Olson
  • Patent number: 8511323
    Abstract: An oral care dispenser and oral care system implementing the same. In one embodiment, the dispenser may comprise a collar having an axial passageway in which a drive component is rotatably coupled. The collar comprises a segmented neck portion and a non-segmented body portion that comprises a plurality of protuberances extending into the axial passageway. The drive component comprises at least one resilient arm that interacts with the plurality of protuberances to generate an audible signal during relative rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Eduardo J. Jimenez, Sharon Kennedy, Alan Sorrentino, John J. Gatzemeyer, Michael Rooney, Joseph E. Fattori
  • Patent number: 8333525
    Abstract: A click pen applicator device that provides predetermined dosing of the formulation for precise application, and rapidly primes the formulation using the dosing click mechanism to prepare the applicator for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: MSD Consumer Care, Inc.
    Inventors: James C. Wightman, Michael Furey, Jeff Hayet, Robert C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8328448
    Abstract: A hardware hole filling device featuring a tube having an inner cavity for holding a filling; a tip disposed on the first end of the tube; a tip nozzle removably attached to the tip of the tube; a removably screw cap for covering the tip nozzle; and a riser mechanism functioning to push the filling from the inner cavity of the tube to the tip nozzle, the riser mechanism involves a threaded riser shaft, a riser threaded on the riser shaft, and a shaft base, the riser shaft can be moved in a first direction and a second direction by twisting the shaft base causing the riser to moved upwardly and downwardly, respectively, on the riser shaft, when the riser is moved upwardly the filling in the inner cavity of the tube is pushed to the tip nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Inventor: Randall S. Hufnagel
  • Patent number: 8328449
    Abstract: A click pen applicator device that provides predetermined dosing of the formulation for precise application, and rapidly primes the formulation using the dosing click mechanism to prepare the applicator for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: MSD Consumer Care, Inc.
    Inventors: James C. Wightman, Michael Furey, Jeff Hayet, Robert C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8308384
    Abstract: A pressable pen includes a tube body having a front end where a sealing unit, a cosmetic base, a cosmetic head and a cap are placed in order. An inner portion of the tube body includes an inner space to fill cosmetic materials, a plug unit, an elongated rod and a base. The base has a resilient unit, a guiding unit, a revolving unit and a pressing unit, wherein the pressing unit has short slots (slot one) and long slots (slot two) with different depth to align with a spacing column of the positioning unit to control the pressing unit. The guiding unit, revolving unit and positioning unit are equipped with associated inclined surfaces, and the guiding unit has a guiding rail to guide the elongated rod. The elongated rod has a spiral portion thereon to engage with a spiral through hole, such that the elongated rod is driven to rotate by the pressing unit and the movement of associated inclined surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Unique Design Packaging Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20120251220
    Abstract: Provided is a container for liquid cosmetics. A liquid cosmetic is filled both in a first bottle and a second bottle. Thus, normally, a user can use the liquid cosmetic filled in the second bottle, and if necessary, the user can move the liquid cosmetic filled in the first bottle to the second bottle. That is, the container can be easily kept and used. In addition, a first bottle is allowed to be rotated in one direction only by stopper protrusions and stoppers so that the container can be used without errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventor: Young-Kwang Byun
  • Publication number: 20120163902
    Abstract: An oral care system comprising an oral care implement, such as a toothbrush, and dispenser containing a fluid detachably coupled to the tooth-brush. The invention is an oral care system comprising: a toothbrush having a cavity; a dispenser comprising a reservoir containing a fluid; a cap detachably coupled to the dispenser; wherein when the cap is coupled to the dispenser, the cap prohibits the dispenser from being inserted into the cavity; and wherein when the cap is detached from the dispenser, the dispenser can be inserted into the cavity and detachably coupled to the toothbrush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY
    Inventors: Eduardo Jimenez, Alan Sorrentino, Robert Moskovich
  • Patent number: 8152397
    Abstract: A product replacement unit for a base stick module in particular of a cosmetic stick comprises a replacement housing with a reservoir in which a product, in particular a cosmetic product, is present in creamy, liquid or pasty form. An applicator is in a fluid connection with the reservoir, and a piston is guided for displacement in the replacement housing for feeding the product to the applicator. A piston connecting component is present on the piston for cooperating with a push rod connecting component of a piston push rod forming part of a feed device of the base stick module for extending the piston, wherein the piston push rod is formed to establish a push connection with the piston and is formed to be positioned on the side of the piston remote from the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: H & M Gutberlet GmbH
    Inventor: Detlev Gutberlet
  • Publication number: 20120039661
    Abstract: In the liquid material feeding container, a piston is formed with a seal portion at a front portion thereof, being sliding in contact with an inner wall of a housing portion of a barrel body, and a cylindrical portion having projections in an outer periphery of a rear end portion and a female thread portion in an inner periphery thereof, and in an outer peripheral surface of the front portion extending frontward from the above-described operating portion of the above-described rotating element, a male thread portion is formed, and in the above-described barrel body, a space of the housing portion is formed in a frontward portion and a groove portion with which the projection is engaged is formed in a backward portion along an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeo Fukumoto, Satoru Sumiyoshi, Mitsuru Endou
  • Publication number: 20120034016
    Abstract: An oral care system, such as a toothbrush having a detachable dispenser containing an oral care material. In one embodiment, the dispenser may include a housing; an internal reservoir for containing a fluid and a dispensing orifice for dispensing the fluid; a first cam surface, the first cam surface being non-rotatable with respect to the housing; a reciprocator comprising an actuator, a drive screw, and a second cam surface, the reciprocator being rotatable with respect to the housing; an elevator forming a transverse end wall of the reservoir, the elevator being non-rotatable with respect to the housing and threadily coupled to the drive screw; wherein rotation of the actuator causes the elevator to (1) axially advance, and (2) axially reciprocate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY
    Inventors: Eduardo Jimenez, Sharon Kennedy, Robert Moskovich, John Gatzemeyer, Alan Sorrentino, Michael Rooney, Joseph Fattori
  • Publication number: 20110286783
    Abstract: A toothbrush combined with a toothpaste dispenser with a wall mounted holder. The present invention comprises of a twist knob that is able to push a piston up a toothpaste compartment. The piston creates pressure inside the toothpaste compartment and causes the toothpaste to travel up a main channel. The main channel branches into a plurality of smaller tubes. Each tube has a respective rubber tube dispenser that protrudes and extends from the brush head. The rubber tube dispensers allow the toothpaste to be dispensed on top of the bristles. The toothbrush additionally comprises of a mouthwash strip roll dispensing mechanism positioned in the knob.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventor: Vanessa Lynn HARDEN
  • Publication number: 20110064511
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a dispensing mechanism assembly. In one embodiment, the dispensing mechanism assembly comprises a delivery screw, said delivery screw having at least one sidewall, said sidewall having a plurality of extensions extending along the longitudinal axis of the sidewall, a piston, a piston rod, said piston rod having a profile on its outer periphery to engage with the delivery screw; and an actuating means, said actuating means having a profile on its inner periphery to engage with the plurality of extensions on the delivery screw wherein the delivery screw having a novel structure allows the screw to perform dual function of a conventional screw and of an acoustic generating part. The delivery screw's novel structure reduces the number of parts required in the assembly and thereby lowers the manufacturing costs while providing a soft but firm sound during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Zen Design Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Leo Clifford Pires, Roger Hwang, Rahul Bose, Santosh Mohapatra, Koushik Kohli, Bhavana Vashishtha
  • Patent number: 7901152
    Abstract: A dispensing device (1) comprising a reservoir (3) for storing a fabric cleaning fluid (9) having a viscosity of over 10 Pa.s at rest or under an applied stress of up to 10 Pa, one or more dispensing orifices (13) in fluid communication with the reservoir (3), a movable platform movable (11) by means of a screw mechanism (19), whereby rotation of a screw (21) advances the movable platform (11) against the stored, fabric cleaning fluid (9) thereby dispensing a metered dose of the cleaning fluid (9) from the reservoir (3) to be dispensed via the dispensing orifices (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: The Sun Products Corporation
    Inventors: John David Hines, Jane Elizabeth Ormond, Brian Arthur Steinhobel
  • Patent number: 7878728
    Abstract: A viscous cosmetic product that realizes smooth application thereof to application target areas and that prevents liquid dripping thereof onto a surface of a viscous cosmetic substance container and is free from stickiness at use thereof, enabling clean use thereof. A viscous cosmetic substance containing 1.0 to 10.0 wt % of silicic anhydride is accommodated in a tubular accommodation part. A front edge wall of the accommodation part is furnished with one or more distribution ports for the viscous cosmetic substance, and an application face is provided outside the front edge wall. Furthermore, the accommodation part thereinside is fitted with an inner tray that enables pressing the viscous cosmetic substance accommodated in the accommodation part so as to enable the viscous cosmetic substance to be pushed outward through the distribution ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Shiseido Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mieko Nasu, Noriko Tomita
  • Patent number: 7686192
    Abstract: One embodiment of a dispensing device for viscous products which includes a container, a screw-feed advancing assembly, and a hub assembly. Rotation of the screw-feed assembly causes the hub assembly to advance upwards and thereby advance the product upwards inside the container. The device maintains a separation of the screw-feed advancing assembly below from the product above and allows the user easier access to the product inside the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Inventors: Claire Jean Patton, Josephine Ann ElMaasarani, Juliana Nabeel ElMaasarani
  • Patent number: 7641411
    Abstract: An applicator device comprising a casing and an application element wherein the application element is displaceable with respect to the casing against a return force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Schwan-STABILO Cosmetics GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Friedrich Biegel
  • Patent number: 7500799
    Abstract: A cosmetic dispenser for producing an axial movement of a cosmetic between extended and retracted dispositions. A cam member is rotatably engaged with an adapter member in a mating relationship. An elevator member with a cosmetic retaining portion and an elevator rod move axially in response to a rotation of the cam member in relation to the adapter member. A proximal end of the elevator rod can be received through an elevator aperture in the adapter member to enable a sliding of lugs on the elevator rod along a helical thread of the cam member. Frictional drag between the cam member and the adapter member can be produced by one or more drag protuberances therebetween. Where the drag protuberances project from the adapter member, a thin wall portion therein can enable a resilient deflection of the drag protuberances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: HCP Packaging USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas F. Holloway
  • Patent number: 7478957
    Abstract: A lotion application apparatus includes a base that has an apex. A post is attached to and extends upwardly from the apex of the base. A support is attached to a distal end of the post with respect to the base. The support is elongated and has a first end and a second end. The support is attached to the post between the first and second ends. An arm is attached to the second end of the support and extends downwardly from the support. A bottom end of the arm comprises a grip. The arm is used to rotate the support along a longitudinal axis of the support with respect to the post. A brush assembly is mounted to the support and dispenses lotion for positioning on a person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Inventor: Willie R. Thornton
  • Patent number: 7377707
    Abstract: An improved lip product applicator for applying a pasty or semi soft lip product to a user's lips comprising a body is described. The body has a product reservoir extending therefrom. The product reservoir is generally hollow and has a tip extending from an end of the reservoir opposite the body. The reservoir is designed so as to allow for discharging product contained therein through an orifice in said tip. The tip is made of a clear material that permits the user to view the color of the product contained therein. The tip is also tapered and retains its tapered shape as lip product is applied to a user's lips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Inventors: Diane C. Breidenbach, Laurence W. Mille
  • Publication number: 20080112752
    Abstract: A cosmetic dispenser comprises a brush, a cylinder, a ratchet wheel comprising internal ratchets and external ratchets, a rotating sleeve including a cosmetic reservoir and a piston. The brush is attached to the cylinder, which is rotatably attached to the revolving sleeve. The ratchet wheel is attached to the end of the cylinder disposed inside the revolving sleeve. The piston extends through the ratchet wheel and has a piston head disposed in the cosmetic reservoir of the revolving sleeve. An axial tunnel extends the entire length of the piston and communicates with a cosmetic reservoir. A needle extends from the brush into the piston axial tunnel. This cosmetic dispenser is constructed in such a way that, relative rotation of the cylinder and the rotating sleeve in a dispensing direction results in displacement of the piston head into the cosmetic reservoir and pressurized flow of a liquid cosmetic from the cosmetic reservoir to the brush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: ALCAN PACKAGING BEAUTY
    Inventor: Derik Zhang
  • Patent number: 7367737
    Abstract: A combination brush and dispenser apparatus for paste materials to be applied by brushing action, is provided as a brushing section with a first passage and portal leading to brush bristles and a matching dispensing section which supplies regulated amount of the material through a second passage into the first passage. The dispenser may optionally include a unitary apparatus with the two sections permanently attached, or a multi-section apparatus in which the brushing and dispensing sections are separable. Various forms of dispensing devices are described for controlling the quantity of paste material supplied to the brushing section for each separate use of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Inventor: Brian D. Johns
  • Patent number: 7309185
    Abstract: A twist up pen type dispenser comprising a brush applicator that is capable of receiving material from a reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: HCT Limited
    Inventors: Richard Christopher Thorpe, G. Scott Desson
  • Patent number: 7244073
    Abstract: A toothbrush assembly has two main sections, a toothbrush head that incorporates toothbrush bristles and toothpaste holder. The toothbrush head has a bristle end and a shaft with an enclosed channel connecting the bristle end to a threaded end. A flexible tube extends from an opening in the channel to near the top of bristles. The threaded end mates to the chamber. The chamber is coupled to a plunger assembly having a plunger head that seals against the sides of the chamber. The plunger head pulls a vacuum on the chamber when moved laterally in a first direction and pressurizes the chamber when moved laterally in a second direction. A toothpaste tube is threaded into the threaded end of the chamber and toothpaste is extracted from the toothpaste tube into the chamber or delivered from the chamber to the bristles. A universal adapter is used for non-compatible toothpaste tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Inventor: Richard B. Trocino
  • Patent number: 7217054
    Abstract: A side knock type feeding mechanism for feeding an object to be fed inside a body by side knock. A front barrel which houses an object to be fed and is capable of feeding the object to be fed from a tip end opening, a knock button provided on a side portion of the front barrel so as to project and retract with respect to the front barrel, a rotary member which is inside the front barrel, rotates in a predetermined direction by knock of the knock button as a result that the knock button works, and rotates in an opposite direction by releasing the knock, a piston for feeding out the object to be fed, and a conversion mechanism for converting the rotation of the rotary member into a forward travelling motion of the piston in an axial direction inside the front barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Kotobuki Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Noguchi
  • Patent number: 7201527
    Abstract: A twist up pen type dispenser comprising a brush applicator that is capable of receiving material from a reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: HCT Limited
    Inventors: Richard Christopher Thorpe, G. Scott Desson
  • Patent number: 7192212
    Abstract: In an application device for applying a liquid, gel-like or pasty cosmetic to the skin, it is provided, with a view to improved handling and simple design, that the application device comprises a container for the cosmetic; an applicator which is connected to the container via at least one supply channel; a piston which is displaceably guided in the container for delivery of the cosmetic towards the applicator; and an operating mechanism for operating the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: H&M Gutberlet GmbH
    Inventors: Detlev Erich Gutberlet, Lothar Käsmacher
  • Patent number: 7168875
    Abstract: A cosmetic pen a hollow outer body and a hollow inner body with an applicator and a lip stick unit are respectively connected to two ends of the hollow outer body. A transmission unit is located between the sleeve of the lip stick unit an the inner body. The sleeve includes an exterior threaded section which is engaged with a cap so that when rotating the cap, the cosmetic liquid in the inner tube can be pushed out from the applicator. The lip stick unit includes a base with a spiral groove and a lip stick is connected to the base, a sleeve is engaged with the spiral groove so that the base can be moved axially by rotating the sleeve to use the lip stick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Chuen Chern Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Li-Mei Liu
  • Patent number: 7150379
    Abstract: A dyeing brush includes a handle having a first blind hole defined in the neck and a second blind hole defined to communicate with the firs blind hole. A knob is rotatably received in the first blind hole and has a threaded hole defined through the knob to communicate with the second blind hole of the handle. A hollow tube has an attachment fixedly attached to a side face of the tube and having teeth extending out from a side face of the attachment. A threaded bolt is rotatably and movably received in the tube to correspond to and threadingly extend through the knob. A cover is to close the upper opening of the tube and has an extension to be received in the cutout of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Inventor: Youth Lee
  • Patent number: 7070354
    Abstract: A hand-operable toothbrush for selectively dispensing dentifrice that includes a proximal section defining a reservoir and a distal section defining a bristle section including a mechanism for engaging the proximal section. The bristle section includes a head portion including a plurality of spaced bristles and a power mechanism for vibrating same. The toothbrush also includes a dispensing mechanism for manually adjusting a volume of the reservoir and thereby causing dentifrice to dissipate outwardly from the reservoir and head portion as needed. The dispensing mechanism includes a gasket engaged with the distal section and a snap ring positioned within the reservoir. The dispensing mechanism and the power mechanism are independently operable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Inventor: Gustavo Gutierrez-Caro
  • Patent number: 7051642
    Abstract: The liquid container includes a body for having a tank portion housing a liquid, and having a supply port on a tip end side, a piston for moving forward inside the tank portion, a piston rod connected with the piston and extending rearward, a manipulating cylinder rotatably mounted to a rear portion of the body, and a rotation stopping cylinder unrotatably disposed in a rear inner portion of the body. A conversion mechanism for converting relative rotation between the manipulating cylinder and the body into movement of the piston rod in an axial direction with respect to the body is provided between the manipulating cylinder and the rotation stopping cylinder, and a rotating direction restricting mechanism for restricting the rotating direction of the manipulating cylinder and the body to one direction is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Kotobuki Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidehei Kageyama
  • Patent number: 7044673
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a cartridge type applicator which can prevent the application liquid from flowing back from the applying portion into the cartridge and which is suitable for use with a high viscosity application liquid. This applicator includes an advancing mechanism or piston mechanism made up of a sealing plug disposed inside a cylindrical cartridge tank for constituting the rear end wall of the tank, and a rod member attached to the sealing plug for causing the sealing plug to move in the axial direction of the tank; and an actuator (actuating member) for causing the rod member to move or advance in the axial direction by rotation thereof, and is constructed such that, when the actuator is turned, the rod member causes the sealing plug to move in the axial direction so as to reduce the volume of the space inside the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Endou
  • Patent number: 6981811
    Abstract: An improved lip product applicator for applying a pasty or semi soft lip product to a user's lips comprising a body is described. The body has a product reservoir extending therefrom. The product reservoir is generally hollow and has a tip extending from an end of the reservoir opposite the body. The reservoir has a means for discharging product contained therein through an orifice in said tip. The tip is made of a clear material that permits the user to view the color of the product contained therein. The tip is also tapered and retains its tapered shape as lip product is applied to a user's lips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventors: Diane C. Breidenbach, Laurence W. Mille
  • Patent number: 6957753
    Abstract: To provide a movable body feeding apparatus at a low cost by reducing a number of parts and making manufacturing process such as a molding, an assembling or the like simpler, the apparatus employs a tubular body (8) obtained by integrally forming a thread tube (8a), a ratchet gear (8e) in a side of a main body tube (1) and an elastic body (8b), instead of the conventional structure that a pair of ratchet gears are arranged between an engaging mechanism in a side of a main body tube and a compression coil spring, in which it is necessary to separate the engaging mechanism side and the compression coil spring side, and three parts (a plurality of parts) are required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Tokiwa Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Tani