Therapeutic Cosmetic Dispensing Device

Abstract

A cosmetic dispensing device with a reservoir to hold a supply of a cosmetic or pharmaceutical preparation. The preparation can be extruded from the reservoir to the surface of the device. The device further has a stimulator built-in. This stimulator supplies light, vibration, or electricity or any combination thereof to the user as the preparation is applied to the skin.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This invention claims priority to provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 818,098 filed Jun. 30, 2006. The background of the invention remains the same and reference is made to the previous application. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION[0002] The subject of this patent application is a cosmetic dispensing device which also has therapeutic functions. The invention dispenses cosmetics and / or drugs through a ball or via apertures on the top of the device. The surface of the top of the device lights up to provide various frequencies of light, and sometimes heat, to mammalian skin. Microcurrent stimulation can also be directed to the skin via an electrically conductive cosmetic or drug. The entire device can be made to vibrate. [0003] Throughout this application, the word cosmetic shall be used to mean any cosmetic, drug, fluid, or other material or contents that might possibly be dispensed from such a device. [0004] In the medical and beauty industry, m...

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Benefits of technology

[0020] The primary purpose of this device is to dispense light and / or electricity and / or vibratory massage synchronously with the dispensing of a cosmetic or therapeutic liquid or cream. By dispensing light along with the fluid, there are numerous possible benefits. Certain frequencies of light increase healing and have even been said to have curative powers in certain diseases. By dispensing light or electricity or vibratory massage in conjunction with a cosmetic, the curative or restorative powers of each could be increased via a mutual synergistic effect.

[0022] A further embodiment of the device would contain an eccentric motor which would vibrate the entire device. When the device was used to apply cosmetics, such a vibration would enhance the application of the cosmetic and would tend to soothe and relax the skin and the underlying musculature, hence having an enhanced therapeutic effect.

[0025] One embodiment of the device includes specially constructed LEDS with the LED packages (the glass or plastic that surrounds the diode) such that said led package has one or more through and through apertures such that a fluid or viscous material such as a cosmetic might be forced, under minimal pressure, from the cosmetic reservoir compartment, through said apertures, such that said cosmetic could be dispensed to contact the skin during the treatment. Although this embodiment is shown as the preferred embodiment, the apertures which conduct the cosmetic to the skin need not be in the body of the leds and may be anywhere in the head of the device without deviating from the intended scope of the invention. It is also within the scope of the invention to include a method of releasing a calibrated quantity of cosmetic via a control such as the ratchet steps described below. Because each tooth could be accurately sized to permit the squisher plate to move a very precise distance with each click, controlling the cosmetic output would be very easy to do with this device. Alternatively, a platform under the cartridge with a screw threaded handle on the bottom capable would be capable of pushing the platform against the cartridge with a pre-determined output for each revolution of the handle or, if ratcheted, for each click of the handle. In this way, one could easily predict the number of uses one could expect from a cartridge of a given size.

[0026] It is foreseen that the invention might serve as a packaging concept for certain drugs and cosmetics by increasing the cosmetics usefulness right off the shelf and by helping a manufacturer keep market share by have the invention be non-refillable or refillable only with propriety cartridges. In this document, the refillable container is known as the cartridge and the compartment in which it contains a drug or cosmetic is called the reservoir.

Problems solved by technology

Although lighted balls with self-contained power supplies are available as toys, none has ever been described to be used as part of a system for applying cosmetic preparations to skin.

Devices for supplying light and massage and heat to the skin have been available for many years, but no device supplying light and massage and heat and cosmetic preparations from an attached reservoir has been described.

None of these devices have an attached or internal reservoir of any cosmetic preparation or of any electrically interfacing gel which can be dispensed as the device is being used for its stimulating functions.

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