Cosmetic Assembly Fixing Composition Pouring Method
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cosmetic packaging methods fail to effectively combine multiple shades and textures of cosmetic products in a single container, often requiring separate compartments and lengthy hardening times for thermosetting resins, which limits the presentation of diverse shades and textures to the user.
Innovation Solution
A cosmetic product assembly method where molded or pressed cosmetic elements are integrated with a fixing composition containing waxes, oils, and pastes, allowing for secure fixation and rapid solidification within a container, enabling the combination of various shades and textures without separate compartments, and ensuring the product remains integral and transportable.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If thermosetting resin is used to assemble cast anhydrous products, then the products can be fixed in the container, but the hardening time requires several hours
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the physical and chemical parameters of the fixing composition by using a mixture of waxes and oils with specific melting points and viscosities, replacing thermosetting resin. This allows the composition to solidify rapidly at room temperature without requiring lengthy hardening times, while still providing secure fixation of the cosmetic elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses a temporary fixing composition based on waxes and oils that solidifies quickly and provides sufficient fixation without the need for long-term chemical bonding. This short-living fixing mechanism is sufficient for the application, eliminating the need for durable but time-consuming thermosetting resin hardening.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple compartments are used to present different shades, then each shade can be displayed, but the packaging complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple cosmetic elements of different shades and textures into a single integrated assembly. The hot-poured fixing composition fills the entire container and bonds all cosmetic elements together, eliminating the need for separate compartments while maintaining the ability to display and access multiple shades.
Solution Approach 2:
The fixing composition serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a bonding agent to secure cosmetic elements, as a filling material to occupy container space, and as a unified matrix that allows access to all shades through a single opening, replacing the need for multiple compartment structures.
3Reliability
If separate cups are used for each composition, then each composition is protected, but the assembly requires multiple assembly steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and eliminates the intermediate cup structures from the assembly process. By pouring the fixing composition directly into the final container and allowing it to solidify, the method removes the need for separate cups and the complex assembly steps required to fit them together, while still providing protection and separation of compositions.
4Ease of operation
If the container surface is made flat for easy collection, then user access is facilitated, but the product cannot offer multiple shades simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The patent resolves this contradiction by creating a multi-level three-dimensional surface within the container. The fixing composition is poured to a level that allows the top surfaces of embedded cosmetic elements to protrude, creating a stepped or uneven surface topology. This enables multiple shades to be simultaneously accessible while maintaining ease of collection through the same flat or slightly contoured top surface.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This method allows for the creation of a cosmetic product with multiple shades and textures in a single container, ensuring secure fixation, rapid handling, and adaptability to different container shapes, while maintaining the integrity of the cosmetic elements and reducing manufacturing time.
Implementation Method 1
The inventors have found that the second material which is poured around the first previously placed in the container, can solidify before filling the container uniformly and before completely surrounding the first material.
Implementation Method 2
The inventors have found that it is possible to heat pour a cosmetic product around one or more cosmetic elements
Implementation Method 3
The inventors have found a fixing composition which conforms well to the inclusion shapes, conforms well to the shape of the container and fills the gaps left between the inclusion shapes and the walls of the housing
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AI summary
The invention relates to a cosmetic product including a container (2a, 2b, 2c) provided with at least one recess (3a, 3b, 3c) in which an assembly of a solid inclusion part (4a, 4b, 4c) and a binding composition (5a, 5b, 5c), having a dropping point higher than 50°C and a mean hardness of less than 2,800 g, is arranged. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing said product which consists of preparing the inclusion part, depositing same on the bottom of the container, and then pouring the binding composition such that the latter can surround the part and bind same to the container. Said invention makes it possible to present a plurality of cosmetic products without resorting to a compartmentalised container.