Oppositely Oriented Helices Patents (Class 401/71)
  • Patent number: 11717072
    Abstract: A lipstick arrangement including a casing and a protective covering. The casing includes a first part including a carrier at a bottom region, a second part and a protruding element attached to the second part. Lipstick bullet is mounted on the carrier and has an elongate shape including a sloping top portion. The carrier is operatively coupled to the first part and the second part and the carrier is arranged to move in an axial direction relative to the second part in response to the first part being rotated relative to the second part. The protective covering covers the first part of the casing when applied to the casing. The sloping top portion of the lipstick bullet is configured to face away from the protruding element when the lipstick bullet is unscrewed to a fully deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Pat McGrath Cosmetics LLC
    Inventor: Patricia McGrath
  • Patent number: 9004793
    Abstract: A lipstick case lipstick body lift seat anti-slipped structure includes a lipstick case, an outer tube, a lift seat with an opening facing upward, and a lipstick body. A plurality of anti-slipped blocking grooves is formed on an upwardly inclined side of each of the two inclined guiding grooves. The outer tube is sleeved on an outer side of the small diameter guiding tube, and a spiral guiding groove is disposed on an inner wall of the outer tube concavely. The lipstick body is sleeved in the lift seat. Two lift guiding columns are disposed on an outer wall of the lift seat protrudingly for engaging with the inclined guiding grooves correspondingly and pressing into the spiral guiding groove. An anti-slipped blocking portion is protrudingly disposed on an outer diameter of each of the lift guiding columns corresponding to the anti-slipped blocking grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Inventor: Chin-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 8104984
    Abstract: To enable a material extruding container to carry out various combined operations, first and second engagement portions (8, 9) are provided within a container (100), both the first and second engagement portions (8, 9) operate to move a moving body (6) forward when a container front portion (1) and a container rear portion (3) are relatively rotated in one direction, the engagement of the first engagement portion (8) is cancelled when the first engagement portion (8) operates in a fixed section corresponding to the relative rotation between the container front portion (1) and the container rear portions (1, 3) in one direction, and only the second engagement portion (9) operates to move the moving body (6) forward and backward when they are further relatively rotated in one direction, while leads of the first and second engagement portions (8, 9) may be differentiated or reverse moving screws may be set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Tokiwa Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Tani
  • Patent number: 5653338
    Abstract: A cosmetic extrusion case includes a chuck holding a cosmetic, an intermediate cylinder into which the chuck is inserted, a base cylinder into which the intermediate cylinder is inserted. By forming helical grooves in the inner surfaces of the intermediate cylinder and the base cylinder, respectively, the case has a dual structural extruding mechanism. The helical groove of the intermediate cylinder extends to the open end of the intermediate cylinder to allow a projection of the chuck to easily engage with the helical groove from the open end, thereby smoothly inserting the chuck into the intermediate cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Takiwa Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Tani
  • Patent number: 4813801
    Abstract: A case for stick cosmetics, particularly lipsticks is described, formed by an external base, an intermediate body, a stick holder and a cap, comprising improvements in the elements for coupling the parts together and the moulding of the parts. Methods are also described for moulding the lipstick itself directly inside the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Inventor: Ennio Cardia