US 12,376,667 B2
Packaged cosmetic stick product
Leonard Geoffrey Hoskin-Green, Bristol (GB); and Benjamin George Oglesby, Leeds (GB)
Assigned to Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US)
Appl. No. 18/710,986
Filed by Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 9, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/081277
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 16, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/094160, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 1, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 21210994 (EP), filed on Nov. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2025/0009107 A1, Jan. 9, 2025
Int. Cl. A45D 40/08 (2006.01); A45D 40/00 (2006.01); A45D 40/16 (2006.01)
CPC A45D 40/08 (2013.01) [A45D 2040/0062 (2013.01); A45D 40/16 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A packaged cosmetic stick product comprising a cosmetic stick composition mounted on a retaining member, the retaining member being reversibly connected to a holder enabling the cosmetic stick product to be held in a human hand, wherein the retaining member is axially immobile relative to the holder and any other associated elements and wherein the retaining member comprises parallel arcuate bridge structures separated by holes, the arcuate bridge structures arcing into the cosmetic stick composition and being embedded therein, characterised in that (i) two of the arcuate bridge structures which are adjacent, curve towards one another at their upper ends in a direction orthogonal to their long axis; or (ii) two of the arcuate bridge structures have on each side two or more parallel bridge structures that do not arc into the cosmetic composition; or (iii) the arcuate bridge structures each have both upper and lower surfaces that are smoothly curved across their full width in a direction orthogonal to their long axis; or by having any combination of features (i) to (iii).