Including Means To Positively Transmit Rotation To Sliding Screw-feed Member Patents (Class 401/75)
  • Patent number: 6817799
    Abstract: A dispenser of a product includes a body forming a lateral wall in a moulded plastic material with, at its upper end, an upper orifice, and at its lower end, a bottom including a circular lower orifice. The lateral wall includes an assembly of an inner jacket including an inner tubular part, of area cross-section Si and thickness Ec, and an outer body including an outer tubular part of area cross-section Se>Si and thickness Ei, said thicknesses Ec and Ei being taken typically below 2 mm, so as to be able to manufacture the dispenser by high throughput moulding and without dimensional distortion of the inner jacket and of the outer body of plastic material, and in such a way that the outer body is able to have a cross-section different from that of the inner jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Techpack International
    Inventor: Robert Petit
  • Patent number: 6773184
    Abstract: An integrated lipstick and lip pencil comprises a lipstick part for painting a user's lips with a lipstick of a prescribed color, a lip pencil part for penciling a lip line using a lip pencil, and a coupling part for coupling the lipstick part and the lip pencil part to combine them into one body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Inventor: Suck-Doo An
  • Patent number: 6773190
    Abstract: An implement for dispensing a preparation is provided with a cylinder member having a cylindrical wall extending along an axis of the cylinder member, a preparation moving mechanism for moving a preparation along the axis of the cylinder member, the preparation moving mechanism including a movable member having a surface extending in parallel with the cylindrical wall of the cylinder member, and a space former for defining a space between the cylinder member and the movable member. A representation member is provided on one and/or both of the opposite surfaces of the cylinder member and the operative member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miho Matsumoto, Ryo Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 6769826
    Abstract: A stick type cosmetic material feeding container which houses a stick type cosmetic material in such a manner that the stick type cosmetic material can be fed out prevents a spiral engagement mechanism from breaking at the uppermost limit or the like. The stick type cosmetic material feeding container further eliminates unsteadiness of the spiral engagement mechanism and can obtain the stress of slide due to the spiral engagement mechanism. A front cylinder 10 having a tip opening hole 11 through which a stick type cosmetic material advances and retreats is rotatably connected with a container body 3. A core chuck member 30 having a spiral section 34 is inserted in the container body 3 and a rotation regulating mechanism for synchronously rotating the front cylinder 10 and the core chuck member 30 is provided. Further, an elastic engagement section 68 is provided in a through hole 61 of an elastic cylindrical body 60 which rotates synchronously with the container body 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Suzuno Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohba
  • Publication number: 20040120751
    Abstract: A device for packaging and dispensing a substance including a drive mechanism having a first part and a second part capable of rotating around an axis relative to the first part to dispense a substance. The first or second part having an element which is axially stationary along the axis relative to the other of the first or second part. The device further including a base part in which at least part of the second part is received and an anti-rotation element secured to the second part. The anti-rotational device adapted for cooperating with the base part in such a manner as to enable the drive mechanism to move axially along the axis relative to the base part while enabling the second part to be substantially stationary in rotation relative to the base part. An elastically deformable member is included for exerting a force against the drive mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Applicant: L'OREAL
    Inventor: Jean-Louis Gueret
  • Patent number: 6682243
    Abstract: The invention provides a stick-shaped cosmetic screw-out container including a holding cylinder fitting and holding a stick-shaped cosmetic and having a screwing projection provided from a side wall. The container also includes a shell cylinder including the holding cylinder vertically slidably, having a guide groove through which the screwing projection penetrates provided on a side wall and having an engagement concave portion provided on a lower side wall. The container further includes a sleeve fitted in the shell cylinder, having a screwing groove for screwing the screwing projection provided on an inner wall and having, on a lower inner wall, an inner peripheral rib engaged rotatably with the engagement concave portion so as not to be dropped out, a body cylinder for holding a lower portion of the shell cylinder so as not to be dropped out, and a fitting cylinder fixed onto the body cylinder and provided with a fitting portion in which a cap is removably fitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Kanebo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Iwamoto, Hisao Iwamoto, Koji Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 6676319
    Abstract: In the outer sleeve there runs a threaded spindle which is mounted in a bearing sleeve (5) and on which a piston (30) is movable up and down. The outer sleeve (1) is in relation to its inner diameter Ad considerably longer than with known glue sticks. The ratio of the inner diameter Ad of the outer sleeve (1) to the length AL of the part of the outer sleeve which serves for receiving a rod-like adhesive mass (10) here lies in the region of 1:6 to 1:15. This however according to the invention demands that the threaded spindle is configured such that it simultaneously serves as a conveyor worm. Thanks to the special configuration of the piston (30) is spite of the great length of the threaded spindle there is achieved a bending-breakage stabilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Uhu GmbH & Co, KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Werhahn, Werner Panter, Hans-Martin Kapsa
  • Publication number: 20030206764
    Abstract: A slider for a solid paste dispenser has a planar base portion and a tubular portion projecting from the center of the base portion into a solid paste. A screw rod extends through the base and tubular portions and is engaged therewith in threaded manner, and the tubular portion has as an integral part thereof a radially outwardly extending protrusion or a number of such protrusions so formed as to satisfy the equation S0−SM≧S1+S2+ . . . +Sn where S0 stands for the area (cm2) of the upper surface of the base portion, S1 to Sn each stand for the area (cm2) of the lower surface of one of the n protrusions, and SM stands for a maximum area (cm2) of S1 to Sn in which each of S0 and S1 to Sn excludes the area occupied by the tubular portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Applicant: TOMBOW PENCIL CO., LTD
    Inventor: Masashi Shinya
  • Patent number: 6623199
    Abstract: A thrust-out type container for a rod-like article such as a lipstick basically comprising a body and a cap. The body has an axis C extending in a vertical direction and comprises, around the axis C and radially outward from the axis C, a movable member, an inner cylindrical tube, an outer cylindrical tube and a control tube in this order. An intermediate cylindrical tube is interposed between the outer cylindrical tube and the control tube. The intermediate cylindrical tube is fixed to the control tube and rotatable around the outer cylindrical tube. An outer peripheral surface of the intermediate cylindrical tube and an inner peripheral surface of the cap come in air-tight contact with each other. The intermediate cylindrical tube extends downward beyond respective lower ends of the inner and outer cylindrical tubes and has a bottom covering the respective lower ends of these tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Hidan Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Satoru Naramoto, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yutaka Mihara
  • Patent number: 6623198
    Abstract: A lipstick or cosmetic dispenser having a tubular cam sleeve and an innerbody fitted inside the cam sleeve, and internal helical tracks supporting an elevator cup. The cam sleeve has a lower cam skirt with a plurality of ribs provided on its inner wall. The innerbody has a beveled shoulder around a lower outer wall thereof. The cam skirt ribs bear against the beveled shoulder to create frictional drag between the innerbody and the cam sleeve, and to cause the cam sleeve to be urged upwardly. The ribs on the inner wall of the cam skirt extend at an angle relative to a centerline of said dispenser, and preferably are angled the same direction as the internal helical tracks of the cam sleeve. There are from three to seven, preferably, five or six of said ribs located equidistantly from each other around said inner wall of said cam skirt. The ribs may be connected with each other by webs or separated by slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas F. Holloway
  • Patent number: 6623197
    Abstract: A water-based solid marking composition comprises water, a humectant and a solidifying agent present in the weight ratio of 2˜3:1˜2:1. A water-based marking instrument comprising the water-based solid marking composition includes a body surrounding the water-based solid marking composition, a packing for supporting the lower portion of the water-based solid marking composition and for assisting the transportation of the water-based solid marking composition, and a screw facing the packing so as to move the packing upwardly and downwardly, which have advantages in color miscibility, affinity to paper, usability, color tone, less sludge on paper and removal of stains on undesired sites, can render watercolor images using a crayon pastel, a crayon, a colored pencil or a marker, can prevent the composition from feeling sticky in a user's hands and conserves resources, and protects our environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Amos Corporation
    Inventor: Eun-sung Lee
  • Patent number: 6612765
    Abstract: A core guide assembly for a stationery article includes a screw member with a predetermined length while externally bearing a male screw. A support member is connected to the one-sided end of the screw member while centrally bearing a support bar protruded opposite to the screw member. The support bar has a support protrusion with one or more portions bearing a large volume in the radial direction. The support protrusion is formed at the end portion of the support bar by one or two steps while bearing a shape of a cone or a disk, or arranged at the support bar by two or more steps in a zigzag while bearing a shape of a semi-cone or a semi-disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Dong-A Teaching Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-Hyung Lee, Byoung-Whoo Min
  • Patent number: 6607323
    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: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Inventors: Diane C. Breidenbach, Laurence W. Mille
  • Patent number: 6588957
    Abstract: A cartridge type stick-shaped cosmetic material feeding container 1 comprises a cartridge 2 and a container body 3, and the cartridge 2 rotatably connects a base cylinder 20 and a front cylinder 10 having an opening hole 11 through which a stick-shaped cosmetic material A advances and retreats. The stick-shaped cosmetic material A is retained by claws 32 at a front end of a core chuck member 30 inserted and an O-ring 4 is wound to an outer circumference of the base cylinder 20. Due to a feeding mechanism in the cartridge 2, the stick-shaped cosmetic material A retained by the core chuck member 30 advances and retreats along the front cylinder 10 with rotations of the front cylinder 10 and the base cylinder 20. The feeding mechanism of the cartridge 2 inserted in the container body 3 functions when the base cylinder 20 and the container body 3 synchronously rotate by frictional resistance of an inner circumference of the container body and the O-ring 4 wound to the base cylinder 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Suzuno Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohba
  • Patent number: 6561711
    Abstract: A cosmetic package is provided for a stick cosmetic, such as lipstick, which allows the color of the lipstick to be visible without opening the package. The package includes a base, a protective sleeve and a collar. The base includes inner and outer cylindrical walls joined at the bottom to form a cylindrical space therebetween. The protective sleeve is adapted to fit into this annular space. The collar is rotatably mounted on the base and has a helical track adapted to engage a corresponding lug on the sleeve. When the collar is rotated, the sleeve is propelled upwardly to surround and protect the cosmetic. When rotated in the other direction, the collar causes the sleeve to be retracted to allow for application of the cosmetic. The protective sleeve may be transparent so that the color shade of the lipstick is evident when the sleeve is in the upwardly extended position surrounding the lipstick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Rexam Cosmetic Packaging, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert L. Pierpont
  • Patent number: 6557563
    Abstract: A spiral groove 11 is provided in a front cylinder 10, and a spiral piece 32 for constituting a cosmetic material retaining section 31 provided at a tip of a push rod 30 is located in the spiral groove 11 and retains a stick type cosmetic material A. A spiral engagement section 33 subsequent to the spiral piece 32 is engaged with the spiral groove 11 and constitutes a spiral engagement mechanism. An engagement line section 34 provided at an outer circumference of a stopper section 38 of the push rod 30 is engaged with a rotary stop groove 21 of a container body 20 and constitutes a rotary stop mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Suzuno Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohba
  • Patent number: 6550999
    Abstract: The dispenser (1) includes a body (2), a cap (11), a propellant device (3) including a base plate (4) with an axial screw (5), fixed on said base plate, a plunger (6) formed of a medium (8) of said stick and of a central nut (7), engaging by screwing with the axial screw, a bottom (12) and/or a knob for rotating the axial screw, and is characterized in that: a) engagement between the thread (50) of the screw (5) and the thread (70) of the nut (7) is partial, one of the two threads extending only over a predetermined angular fraction, so as to form a so-called partial thread, b) the central nut (7) and/or the axial screw (5) include a radial resilience means, constituting an aptitude for radial distortion under stress, so as to allow, in the event of forced rotation under stress and of locking of the screw relative to the nut, a disengagement, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: LIR France
    Inventors: Robert Petit, Gerard Rascol
  • Publication number: 20030068187
    Abstract: A lipstick or cosmetic dispenser having a tubular cam sleeve and an innerbody fitted inside the cam sleeve, and internal helical tracks supporting an elevator cup. The cam sleeve has a lower cam skirt with a plurality of ribs provided on its inner wall. The innerbody has a beveled shoulder around a lower outer wall thereof. The cam skirt ribs bear against the beveled shoulder to create frictional drag between the innerbody and the cam sleeve, and to cause the cam sleeve to be urged upwardly. The ribs on the inner wall of the cam skirt extend at an angle relative to a centerline of said dispenser, and preferably are angled the same direction as the internal helical tracks of the cam sleeve. There are from three to seven, preferably, five or six of said ribs located equidistantly from each other around said inner wall of said cam skirt. The ribs may be connected with each other by webs or separated by slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventor: Thomas F. Holloway
  • Patent number: 6543953
    Abstract: Disclosed is a portable casing for a soap bar which has a structure such as a lipstick container so that it receives a soap bar in such a fashion that the soap bar is normally in a retracted state within the casing while being extended from the casing by a desired length only when it is desired to be used, in order to allow the user to lather his desired body portion, thereby being convenient to use, carry, and store the soap bar. The portable soap bar casing includes a cylindrical casing body having a threaded hole, and a carrier member adapted to carry a soap bar and directly coupled to the threaded hole of the cylindrical casing body so as to directly receive a force from the cylindrical casing body for vertically moving the soap bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Inventor: Sung-O Kim
  • Publication number: 20030053842
    Abstract: Here is disclosed a thrust-out type container for a rod-like article such as a lipstick basically comprising a body and a cap. The body has an axis C extending in a vertical direction and comprises, around the axis C and radially outward from the axis C, a movable member, an inner cylindrical tube, an outer cylindrical tube and a control tube in this order. An intermediate cylindrical tube is interposed between the outer cylindrical tube and the control tube. The intermediate cylindrical tube is fixed to the control tube and rotatable around the outer cylindrical tube. An outer peripheral surface of the intermediate cylindrical tube and an inner peripheral surface of the cap come in air-tight contact with each other. The intermediate cylindrical tube extends downward beyond respective lower ends of the inner and outer cylindrical tubes and has a bottom covering the respective lower ends of these tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Satoru Naramoto, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yutaka Mihara
  • Publication number: 20030031497
    Abstract: A stick type cosmetic material feeding container which houses a stick type cosmetic material in such a manner that the stick type cosmetic material can be fed out prevents a spiral engagement mechanism from breaking at the uppermost limit or the like. The stick type cosmetic material feeding container further eliminates unsteadiness of the spiral engagement mechanism and can obtain the stress of slide due to the spiral engagement mechanism. A front cylinder 10 having a tip opening hole 11 through which a stick type cosmetic material advances and retreats is rotatably connected with a container body 3. A core chuck member 30 having a spiral section 34 is inserted in the container body 3 and a rotation regulating mechanism for synchronously rotating the front cylinder 10 and the core chuck member 30 is provided. Further, an elastic engagement section 68 is provided in a through hole 61 of an elastic cylindrical body 60 which rotates synchronously with the container body 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohba
  • Patent number: 6499897
    Abstract: A travelling section 30 for retaining the stick type cosmetic material is installed rotatably in an axial direction in an outer shell section 2 which is constituted by rotatably connecting a front cylinder 10 and a base cylinder 20. An outer circumferential surface 43 of a spiral cylinder 40 which is spirally engaged with a male screw section of the travelling section fits in a second slide surface provided on an inner circumferential surface of the base cylinder 20 which is one component of the outer shell section 2. Due to frictional force of this fit-in part, a cylindrical body and the spiral cylinder 40 are synchronously rotated. The travelling section 30 is engaged with an inner circumference of the front cylinder 10 and can slide only in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Suzuno Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Wataru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6488427
    Abstract: An applicator for dispensing a product comprises an exterior top surface, an exterior sidewall, and a base. The applicator has a chamber which constitutes a reservoir for holding the product to be dispensed. The reservoir has top wall, a bottom wall and a side wall. The applicator has an orifice for dispensing product, and the orifice connects the top surface to the top wall. The chamber has a disk capable of traveling through the chamber forcing product through the orifice as it travels through the chamber. The disk has a product contact surface that contacts a major portion of the top surface when the travel of the disk is complete so that product remaining in the chamber is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Inventors: Diane C. Breidenbach, Laurence W. Mille
  • Patent number: 6481909
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an appearing and disappearing core type writing instrument capable of appearing and disappearing a core based on a rotation operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Inventor: Byung Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20020168213
    Abstract: In a feeding type container for a stick type cosmetic material, a feeding mechanism is prevented from breaking and the container for a stick type cosmetic material is prevented from being taken apart when excessive rotary torque is furnished at the uppermost limit or the lowermost limit. Thus, a travelling section 30 for retaining the stick type cosmetic material is installed rotatably in an axial direction in an outer shell section 2 which is constituted by rotatably connecting a front cylinder 10 and a base cylinder 20. An outer circumferential surface 43 of a spiral cylinder 40 which is spirally engaged with a male screw section of the travelling section fits in a second slide surface provided on an inner circumferential surface of the base cylinder 20 which is one component of the outer shell section 2. Due to frictional force of this fit-in part, a cylindrical body and the spiral cylinder 40 are synchronously rotated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventor: Wataru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6447192
    Abstract: A device for receiving and dispensing a coatable material comprises a sleeve-shaped receiving element in which is arranged a piston-shaped element displaceable in longitudinal direction and provided with an internal thread, the element carrying the coatable material and being displaceable by an externally operable socket-shaped rotary grip, wherein the rotary grip comprises a screw spindle co-operable with the internal thread of the piston-shaped element, the device being so improved that detaching of the coating material from the piston-shaped element is reliably avoided without impairing the sealing function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Wolfgang Butz, Peter Gonzalez-Koehn, Axel Uwe Kochler, Peter Kuklik, Rainer Dahm, Karsten Wolf
  • Patent number: 6435748
    Abstract: A dispenser for volatile material has an enclosure having an opening sealed by a removable first cap member and a stationary barrier at a location opposite the opening; a platform in the enclosure to form a primary cavity between the platform and the opening and an intermediate cavity between the platform and the stationary barrier, the platform being permeable to the volatile material in a molten state for transfer thereof between the primary and intermediate cavities, the platform being movable relative to the stationary barrier to dispense the material through the opening, wherein the platform is operable in a storage position to establish a seal with the stationary barrier to minimize loss of the volatile material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Plastic Packaging and Components Limited
    Inventor: Jay Taghikhani
  • Patent number: 6419412
    Abstract: The cosmetic dispenser is comprised of a barrel that is closed at a lower end by a screw and elevator assembly and on the upper end by an integrally molded top wall. The integrally molded top wall has a weakened area at its periphery and a gripping means such as a loop whereby the top wall can be removed by severing the weakened area. The removed top wall is discarded and the screw turned to raise a portion above the sidewalls. The integrally molded top wall can be integrally molded with the barrel or it can be integrally molded to an adaptor which fits onto the top of the barrel to provide a compound curved top edge for comfort in applying the cosmetic to a skin surface. In this latter embodiment the top wall has a peripheral weakened area whereby the top wall is removed by severing this top wall at the peripheral weakened area. The structure of these embodiments provides a positively sealed and easily opened cosmetic dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Colgate Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Daniel Ostrowski, Bruce Cummings
  • Patent number: 6398439
    Abstract: A rotary dispenser with internal pressure relief includes a housing; an elevator slidably and non-rotatably disposed in the housing; a rotatable drive member rotatably disposed in the housing and engaged with the elevator whereby rotation of the drive member slides the elevator relative to the housing; a dome slidably and non-rotatably mounted relative to the housing and having at least one aperture for dispensing product from inside of the housing; and a pressure relief member having a cam and a cam follower, one of the cam and the cam follower being associated with the rotatable drive member and the other of the cam and the cam follower being associated with the dome, the cam follower being rotatably engaged with the cam, whereby rotation of the rotatable drive member relative to the dome rotates one of the cam and the cam follower relative to the other of the cam and the cam follower, the cam having at least one cam surface for causing axial movement of the dome toward the elevator and at least one second
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: The Plastek Group
    Inventor: Alex Szekely
  • Patent number: 6371673
    Abstract: A dispenser for a substance such as lipstick. The dispenser includes containing a pusher for the substance and a declutchable drive to move the pusher in an axial direction within the body to dispense the substance. The pusher returns to an initial position when the declutchable drive is declutched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Jean-Louis Gueret
  • Patent number: 6345922
    Abstract: A cartridge type feeding container has a rod-like cosmetic material in which the rod-like cosmetic material is neither damaged nor pulled apart even if a buffering external shock is applied to the container and the cartridge is not pulled apart from the container body or any load is applied in a direction in which the core chucks and the feeding mechanism and dismounted apart from each other even if a torque is further applied to exceed a maximum fed condition. These advantages are the result of an internal member made of flexible material and provided on a part of an inner circumferential surface thereof with a cutaway formed by combining a slit cut in a circumferential direction. The internal member and the container body form a container cover portion such that a shock, applied from the outside of the container cover portion, is buffered in the cutaway in the internal member and is prevented from being transmitted to the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Tokiwa Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Tani
  • Publication number: 20020015611
    Abstract: A device for packaging and applying a substance constituting a cosmetic or a care product containing at least one volatile hydrocarbon solvent can be closed hermetically and comprising comprises at least two elements, at least one of which is made of a plastics material. Said elements are suitable for moving relative to each other in order to enable the substance to be applied. The plastics material is selected in such a manner that the element(s) is/are not subject to significant mass variation when put into prolonged contact with the vapor of said solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Gilles Blondeel, Marion Prunier
  • Publication number: 20020009324
    Abstract: A push rod 50 is provided in a container body 4 and a cartridge 2 is attached to the container body 4 in such a manner that the cartridge 2 can be attached and detached. Due to rotations of the container body 4 and the cartridge 2, a feeding mechanism causes the push rod 50 in the container body 4 to spirally advance, pushes a core chuck member 20 in the cartridge 2, and causes a stick type cosmetic material retained at the core chuck member 20 to move forward and backward. The core chuck member 20 is always urged in a direction of retreat by a spring 3, and when the cartridge 2 is attached to the container body 4, the push rod 50 is pushed back by repulsion to an inside of the container body 4 so as to prevent the stick type cosmetic material from projecting out of the cartridge 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohba
  • Patent number: 6334729
    Abstract: At least a part of a cylindrical body (20) is rotatably and unslidably housed in a front cylinder (10). A beam (30) for retaining a stick type cosmetic material (4) on the upper end side is made unrotatable and slidable to the front cylinder (10) by a sliding mechanism and made feedable by a rotation together with the cylindrical body (20) by a feeding mechanism. The beam (30) is always urged downward by a return spring (6). It is arranged such that a lower end part of the cylindrical body (20) is at the same level as that of a lower end part of the front cylinder (10) and a synchronous engagement section (26) formed on an inner circumferential surface of a lower end part of the cylindrical body (20) is synchronously engaged with a synchronous engagement shaft 43 provided at a bottom (42) of a container body (2). An O-ring (5) is installed between the front cylinder (10) and the container body (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Suzuno Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohba
  • Patent number: 6322267
    Abstract: An adjustable holder is disclosed for holding a marking material, such as a crayon, comprising an elongated housing with first and second end portions, a hollow cylindrical cavity for housing marking material and a centerline therethrough. A tubular interior portion having a threaded inner bore and an outer wall is coaxially positioned within the housing cavity. A collar adjacent to the first end portion is attached to the housing, rotatable about the centerline. The collar has a hole for insertion of the crayon therethrough. There is provided a device for advancing the tip of the crayon along the longitudinal centerline within the housing. A receptacle portion is coaxially positioned within the tubular interior portion for retentively receiving one end of the crayon. The crayon is rotated by rotation of the collar, which cooperate to linearly traverse the receptacle portion within the tube threaded bore along the centerline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Inventor: James C. Shaffer-Bauck
  • Patent number: 6309121
    Abstract: A stick type cosmetic material feeding container for retaining a stick type cosmetic material using claws, which prevents deformation of the claws, retains the stick type cosmetic material stably and properly. By forming sliding projections 36 or sliding convex lines 39 on outer circumferential surfaces 38 of the claws 32 which constitute a cosmetic material retaining section 31, the sliding projections 36 or the sliding convex lines 39 are always in contact with sliding contact surfaces 14 of sliding grooves 13. Or, by forming sliding convex lines 51 on the sliding contact surfaces 14 covering at least stroke range of the claws 32, the sliding convex lines 51 and the outer circumferential surfaces 38 of the claws 32 are always in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Suzuno Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohba
  • Patent number: 6299369
    Abstract: A dispenser for a solid or soft solid mass has a barrel, a piston within the barrel, and a mechanism for advancing the piston axially within the barrel including a rotor wheel. A boss having an inwardly tapered profile (tear drop) and a sump dimensioned to receive the boss seats the rotor wheel at a predetermined angular position relative to the barrel. The boss is preferably formed on the rotor wheel and the sump in the base of the barrel. The dispenser is provided with a pair of bosses and sumps, symmetrically arranged around the rotor wheel and barrel base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Martin Christopher Bunce, Robert David James, Russell Jones
  • Patent number: 6293720
    Abstract: A pencil having an axially-movable core, particularly a soft-core pencil, for example a cosmetic pencil. The pencil has a sleeve-shaped pencil body with a core opening on the side of the tip, a core-driving part that holds the core and is seated to be axially movable in the pencil body, and a rotating sleeve that is disposed coaxially to the core and the pencil body is seated to be rotatably and axially fixed and cooperates directly or indirectly with the core-driving part in the manner of a spindle gear. At least one longitudinal section of the rotating sleeve that is remote from the tip is surrounded by the pencil body. Also, the circumferential wall of the pencil body that surrounds the rotating sleeve has at least one actuation window, and the rear end of the core is inserted so as to be rotatably and axially fixed into a front section of the core-driving part that is embodied as a core-retaining part having a tube-section shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: A.W. Faber-Castell Unternehmensverwaltung GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Werner Zahn
  • Patent number: 6244770
    Abstract: An elevator cup for receiving and supporting a cosmetic pomade in a cosmetic dispenser, comprising a hollow tubular body having a side wall, a closed bottom end, and an open top end for receiving a pomade; and one or more flexible tabs for positively engaging said pomade extending from an inner surface of the side wall. The flexible tabs are movable between a first position, wherein said flexible tab forms an acute angle with the side wall opening toward said bottom end, and a second position, wherein said flexible tab is substantially flush with said inner surface of the side wall. The flexible tab is deflectable from the first position to the second position upon receipt of a pomade and positively engages said pomade by returning to said first position by a spring force created in the flexible tab by the deflection from the first to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies, Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas F. Holloway
  • Patent number: 6244769
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a cartridge body and a holder for holding a stick cosmetic and movable forward/backward in accordance with a screw movement. A container body includes an outer cylinder for rotatably holding the cartridge body, a clicking rod movable forward/backward, a rotor rotated by a cam mechanism while moving forward together with the clicking rod when a clicking operation is performed, and a rotation rod for transmitting the rotational force of the rotor to the holder. The holder and the rotor engage with the rotation rod in the rotating direction and are slidable forward/backward. When a clicking operation is performed, the holder rotates to move forward in accordance with the screw movement. When a clicking operation is not performed, the cartridge body is rotated to move the holder forward/backward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nakajima, Mitsuru Endou
  • Patent number: 6231254
    Abstract: A lipstick dispenser uses the normally decorative A-shell as a functional element by providing a plurality of longitudinal splines in the interior of the A-shell. The splines fit into notches in an elevator cup to keep the elevator in fixed relationship to the A-shell. A propel/retract mechanism is provided by interacting screw threading on the elevator and on a base that is secured together with the A-shell. The base has flexible upwardly extending friction tabs that ride on the inside of the A-shell and provide a desired frictional drag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Crown Cork and Seal Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas F. Holloway
  • Patent number: 6227733
    Abstract: A lipstick dispenser uses the normally decorative A-shell as a functional element by providing a plurality of longitudinal splines in the interior of the A-shell. The splines fit into notches in an elevator cup to keep the elevator in fixed relationship to the A-shell. A propel/retract mechanism is provided by lugs extending from the elevator that track in helical tracks in a base that is secured together with the A-shell. The base has flexible upwardly extending friction tabs that ride on the inside of the A-shell and provide a desired frictional drag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas F. Holloway
  • Patent number: 6224281
    Abstract: A cosmetic pencil cartridge is provided with a cap member having a guiding hole formed therethrough and a holder movably mounted into the cap member. In the cosmetic pencil cartridge, a stopping wall is formed within a mid portion of the cap member, an enlarged diameter portion being formed in front of the stopping wall, the holder having a pair of hook receiving holes formed through the leading portion of the holder. An auxiliary holder has a mass receiving portion for receiving a cosmetic mass at is one side, and a pair of hooks protruding from at the other side thereof, with the pair of hooks being resiliently engaged into the hook receiving holes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Inventor: Min-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 6200047
    Abstract: A sealed cosmetic container provides an airtight receptacle for a cosmetic stick in a dispenser with a slim appearance. The dispenser includes a nose piece with a movable elevator which operates by engagement between screw threading on a stem under the elevator cup and on a cam piece or between a lug under the elevator cup and helical tracks on a cam piece. The cam piece fits into the lower end of the nose piece and the parts are snapped together, with a bead inside the nose piece tightly engaging a lip or bead on the outside of the cam piece, to provide a seal between the two parts to prevent premature drying out of a cosmetic stick. The engaged beads also provide an enhanced swivel torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas F. Holloway
  • Patent number: 6190074
    Abstract: Turning case mechanism particularly for cosmetic products, composed of a pivoting body mounted in rotation on a main piece, formed by a traveler, base and hinge elements connecting the base to the traveler, between a lower articulation point with the base and an upper articulation point with the traveler; said traveler intended to be mobile between an open or upper position and a closed or lower position, characterized in that when the traveler is in the lower position, the hinge elements are arranged at least in part below the horizontal plane that contains the lower articulation point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephane Demellier, Pierre Joulia
  • Patent number: 6186686
    Abstract: A dispenser and applicator for liquid cosmetic material, such as liquid, semiliquid or pasty lip or eye cosmetic products, or for microencapsulated liquid products, including a rigid, axially elongated reservoir tube for holding the cosmetic material, a manually operable driver assembly for exerting pressure on the material within the tube, and an applicator tip having a planar woven mesh screen extending across an outlet end opening and molded in the applicator tip. The driver assembly forces the contained material forwardly through the screen, which the user applies to the lip or eye region of the face, or other selected skin area. In the case of a microencapsulated product, the microcapsules rupture when they are pressed against the mesh, releasing their contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Henlopen Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Neuner, Volker Schrepf
  • Patent number: 6155734
    Abstract: A rotary stick projecting device comprises an inner barrel provided in its inner surface with helical grooves and on its outer surface with projections, a front barrel receiving a front part of the inner barrel so as to permit the inner barrel to turn relative to the front barrel, a rear barrel attached to the front barrel and provided on its inner surface with longitudinal projections which engage with the projections formed on the outer surface of the inner barrel to restrain the inner barrel from turning; and a slider having a front part provided with a stick holding part, and a rear part in engagement with the helical grooves of the inner barrel, capable of axial movement, and incapable of turning relative to the front barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Kotobuki Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehei Kageyama, Yoshio Noguchi, Sachio Arai
  • Patent number: 6152632
    Abstract: To make full use of a rod-like glue contained in a cylindrical dispenser main body of a glue dispenser to its final portion, a spiral member of a rotary operator element of the glue dispenser has a spiral outer diameter which is set to be equal to or larger than 30% and equal to or smaller than 80% of the outer diameter of rod-like glue, and a spiral pitch which is set to be equal to or larger than 50% and equal to or smaller than 300% of the spiral outer diameter. The spiral member is directly screwed to the rod-like glue integrally attached to a slider coupled with a bottom portion of the glue by elastic retaining pieces by which it is not necessary to form a top face of the slider in a recessed shape. The rod-like glue can be extracted and retracted from and to a dispenser main body by moving up and down the glue by rotating the rotary operator element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Tombow Pencil Co., LTD
    Inventors: Humio Shimakage, Yoshio Sumita
  • Patent number: 6149331
    Abstract: A pencil which has a tip and which dispenses a soft mass in use includes a sheath having front and back ends; a push rod positioned coxially within the sheath, having a sheath-side end, and being secured by its sheath-side end to the back end of the sheath in an axial direction; an elongate soft mass insert position coxially with the sheath; a front part which is a sleeve that envelopes the soft mass insert over at least a portion of its length, which is positioned coxially with the sheath and accommodated at least in part within the sheath, and which operates jointly with the sheath in the manner of a helical gear so that the fromt part retracts into the sheath by turning the front part relative to the sheath; and a soft mass insert holder which is connected to the front part so that it is engaged in the turning moment of the front part, which holds the elongate soft mass insert by one end thereof, which is rotatably secured to the push rod, and which is immovably secured to the push rod in the axial directi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: A. W. Faber-Castell Unternehmensverwaltung GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Juergen Raps, Werner Zahn
  • Patent number: 6142691
    Abstract: A storage and dispensing device for a doughy cosmetic includes a tubular container, a holder for the cosmetic and a rear cap. The holder includes a front cup for holding the cosmetic and a rear, externally threaded portion which interacts with an internally threaded portion of the container. The rear cap is coupled to the holder such that rotating the rear cap rotates the holder, resulting in forward motion to dispense the cosmetic or rearward motion to store the cosmetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Laffon S.p.A.
    Inventor: Sergio Crosta