Applicator with slanted plate element

Abstract

A mascara applicator comprising a core and a border consisting of fingers and flanks which are integrally connected to the core. The aim of the invention is to provide a mascara applicator that allows different application results. This is achieved in that each of the flanks consists of at least one plate element. Each plate element has two main surfaces and otherwise only narrow surfaces, and the main surfaces are characterized in that each open surface of the main surfaces is at least four times larger than the open surface of each of the narrow surfaces; the main surfaces run diagonally to the applicator longitudinal axis; and the plate elements exhibit an increased geometrical moment of inertia on the basis of the slanted position of the plate elements both in the circumferential direction as well as in a direction parallel to the applicator longitudinal axis such that the plate elements have an increased resistance against bending.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The invention relates to a mascara applicator.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Mascara applicators with a covering consisting of fingers and wings are known as such from U.S. patent 2009 / 0193602 A1.[0003]The wings of this mascara applicator are configured as disk members. The main surfaces of each of the disk members are oriented so as to be oriented perpendicularly to the longitudinal applicator axis. Viewed in the circumferential direction, several disk members are disposed in alignment one behind the other and thus form a disk ring whose directly adjacent disk members are in each case separated from one another by only a single finger.[0004]Deep gaps, in which a considerable amount of mascara mass remains stored also after the mascara applicator has passed a wiper, remain free between disk members that are disposed one behind the other in a directly adjacent manner in the direction of the longitudinal applicator axis.[0005]Though the mascara applicator...

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Benefits of technology

The invention is a mascara applicator with a unique design that allows for improved application results. The applicator has a covering of fingers that are interrupted at two locations by a row of wings. The wings are slanted relative to the longitudinal applicator axis, which increases their geometrical moment of inertia and makes them more resistant to bending moments. The wings are designed to fold down the bristles in a wiper and allow for variable application behavior. The covering has a zigzag pattern with at least one row of wings that merge into each other along their imaginary end faces. This design prevents the wings from forming a rigid strip and compensates for non-uniform mascara mass loading. The V-shaped members do not interfere with the finger covering.

Problems solved by technology

Therefore, when passing through the wiper, each of these plate members prevents the fingers located in its closer vicinity from being folded down severely and thus being wiped off correspondingly severely.

In areas, however, in which the fingers are further distant from the plate members and in which the local supporting action of the plate members is therefore unable to exhibit any effect, the fingers are folded down considerably more severely and wiped off to a perceptibly more intensive extent.

In contrast, the wiper will fold down the fingers situated in the vicinity of the 12 o'clock position and in the 6 o'clock position particularly severely and therefore wipe them off particularly intensively.

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