| CPC B01F 33/848 (2022.01) [A45D 34/00 (2013.01); A45D 44/005 (2013.01); B01F 33/8442 (2022.01); B01F 33/846 (2022.01); B01F 35/7174 (2022.01); A45D 2034/005 (2013.01); A45D 2200/056 (2013.01); A45D 2200/058 (2013.01); B01F 2101/21 (2022.01)] | 14 Claims |
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1. A customizing and dispensing device for custom cosmetics comprising:
an automated dispenser containing at least two liquid-containing, three-sided ingredient cartridges each having an interior with a circular chamber, each of the at least two liquid-containing, three-sided cartridges removably coupled at a bottom end to a motor driven gear pump able to create reduced pressure within the dispenser to draw and dispense controlled amounts of contained liquid from a respective liquid-containing ingredient cartridge into a respective nozzle specific to a single contained liquid;
each coupled gear pump linked in communication with a processor with a memory;
at least one user input control on an external surface of the dispensing device;
the user input control in communication with the processor to direct activation and control of each coupled motor-driven gear pump at the bottom end of each of the at least two liquid containing, three-sided cartridges;
the processor having an external input-output wired or wireless communication link engageable with a source of data transmission; the memory configured to store at least one set of instructions to activate motors to dispense specific amounts of the liquid from the respective liquid-containing ingredient cartridges into the respective nozzles; the nozzles from each of the respective liquid-containing ingredient cartridges leading to a manually moveable receiving chamber; and at least the respective nozzles and receiving chamber positioned within a housing having:
a) surrounding vertical walls;
b) a coupling for supporting the at least two respective three-sided liquid-containing ingredient cartridges;
c) a lower support surface to support the moveable receiving chamber,
d) the receiving chamber being fixed within the housing to receive the liquid ingredients while the receiving chamber is within the housing and
e) an opening in the surrounding vertical walls enabling manual removal of the removeable receiving chamber;
wherein there is a slideable piston engaged within the circular chamber of each of the at least two respective three-sided liquid-containing ingredient cartridges such that activation of the gear pump withdraws liquid from the at least two three-sided liquid-containing ingredient cartridges into respective nozzles and lowering a level of liquid within the liquid-containing ingredient cartridges draws down the slideable piston over the level of liquid ingredient within the at least two three-sided liquid-containing ingredient cartridges.
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