Mascara Container with Detachable Brush and Scrapper
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mascara containers face issues with mascara drying out and becoming too thick or sticky due to air exposure, leading to health risks when additives like face oil or mascara fixer are used to revive it, altering the product's properties.
Innovation Solution
A container design featuring a cap assembly, bottle assembly, and brush where the brush is detachably connected, allowing for minimal air exposure and easy refilling, with a scrapper to manage mascara quantity, promoting environmental friendliness and user safety by replacing deteriorated components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the bottle is opened for use, then the brush can be dipped in mascara, but the mascara in the bottle is in contact with air and gets dried
Solution Approach 1:
The scrapper acts as an intermediary component between the brush and the mascara bottle. It scrapes excess mascara from the brush bristles, preventing direct contact between the brush and the bulk mascara in the bottle, thereby minimizing air exposure and maintaining mascara quality while still allowing brush dipping functionality
2Quantity of substance
If the edge of the bottle is used to scrape mascara from the brush, then proper amount of mascara is controlled, but the scraped mascara cures and jeopardizes the carriage of proper amount of mascara
Solution Approach 1:
The scrapper serves as a dedicated intermediary tool for quantity control. It provides a controlled scraping action that removes only the necessary excess mascara without causing the brush to dip back into the bottle and pick up cured mascara from the edge, thus maintaining both quantity control and mascara carriage reliability
3Ease of operation
If lotion is added into residual mascara to reduce stickiness, then usability is improved, but the product composition changes and may pose health risks
Solution Approach 1:
The invention enables easy disposal of the brush and bottle components when mascara becomes too thick or sticky. The detachable brush design allows users to discard only the brush and bottle without adding any substances to the residual mascara, avoiding health risks while still providing a practical solution for maintaining usability of future mascara applications
4Reliability
If face oil or mascara fixer liquid is added to revive cured mascara at the bottle edge, then the cured portion is revived, but the color and properties of mascara change
Solution Approach 1:
The scrapper extracts and removes the cured mascara from the bottle edge, separating it from the main mascara supply. This prevents the cured portion from contaminating the fresh mascara while allowing the brush to be refreshed by dipping only into the uncured, quality mascara in the main body of the bottle
Data Source
AI summary
A container for mascara includes a cap assembly, a bottle assembly and a brush. The bottle assembly includes a shell and a bottle. The bottle includes a section inserted in the shell in a detachable and non-rotatable manner and a neck extending from the shell. The neck includes an open end. The brush includes a handle, a rod and bristles. The handle is inserted in the cap assembly in a detachable manner and operable to close the open end of the neck of the bottle. The rod extends from the handle. The bristles are connected to the rod. The bristles and the rod are insertable in the bottle through the open end of the neck of the bottle.