US 11,712,100 B2
Packaged deodorant stick product
Amit Arora, Leeds (GB); Frank Van Der Blom, Eindhoven (NL); and Cornelius Sebastianus Maria Verhoeve, Veghel (NL)
Assigned to Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US)
Appl. No. 17/424,272
Filed by Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 22, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/051524
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/152224, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19153386 (EP), filed on Jan. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0110433 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. A45D 40/20 (2006.01); A45D 40/00 (2006.01)
CPC A45D 40/00 (2013.01) [A45D 2040/005 (2013.01); A45D 2040/0012 (2013.01); A45D 2200/05 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A packaged deodorant stick product comprising:
a deodorant stick composition; and
a retaining member,
wherein the deodorant stick composition is mounted on an upper surface of the retaining member,
wherein a lower surface of the retaining member is configured to be reversibly connected to an upper surface of a holder enabling the deodorant stick product to be held in a human hand,
wherein reversible connection between the retaining member and the holder is achieved by tongue and groove connection elements,
wherein the tongue element extends at least partially across the lower surface of the retaining member or the upper surface of the holder,
wherein the groove element extends fully across the other of the lower surface of the retaining member or the upper surface of the holder,
wherein the tongue and groove elements extend along a major axis of the oval cross-section of the product, and
wherein the deodorant stick product has an oval cross-section when viewed from above.