US 12,121,141 B2
Cosmetic applicator
Camille Schreiber, Clichy (FR); and Audrey Thenin, Clichy (FR)
Assigned to L'Oreal, Paris (FR)
Appl. No. 16/644,016
Filed by L'Oreal, Paris (FR)
PCT Filed Sep. 12, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/074648
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 3, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/053081, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 21, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1758404 (FR), filed on Sep. 12, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0245752 A1, Aug. 6, 2020
Int. Cl. A46B 9/02 (2006.01); A45D 40/26 (2006.01); A46B 3/18 (2006.01); A46D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC A46B 9/021 (2013.01) [A45D 40/265 (2013.01); A46B 3/18 (2013.01); A46D 1/0238 (2013.01); A46D 1/0253 (2013.01); A46D 1/0292 (2013.01); A46B 2200/1053 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An applicator for applying a cosmetic composition to eyelashes or eyebrows, comprising:
a core extending along a longitudinal axis,
at least one element attached to the core, each element comprising a central part fitted onto the core and at least one application member carried by the central part, each of the at least one application members having a maximal width, measured in a plane perpendicularly to said longitudinal axis of the core, being larger than the maximum thickness of the application member, measured along the longitudinal axis of the core, this application member comprising a strand of material comprising at least one elbow that defines a composition collection surface, the elbow being a change in direction of the strand of material, wherein:
the strand of material is joined to the central part by a leg, the strand of material having exactly four elbows, a first elbow at a right angle, a second elbow at a right angle away from the center of the at least one application member, a third elbow at a right angle toward a elongation axis of the leg, and a fourth elbow at a right angle toward the outside, a distal portion of the at least one application member being straight and eccentric with respect to the elongation axis of the leg, or
the strand of material having exactly two lateral legs and a top arm joining the two lateral legs at a distal end. the top arm comprising an undulated form defining elbows, the two lateral legs extending radially, one of the two lateral legs being linked to the central part, the other of the two lateral legs being spaced apart from the central part, or
the strand of material forming an enlarged head portion linked to a base portion by a stem portion, the width of the stem portion perpendicular to an elongation axis of the application member being less than the width of the head portion and the width of the base portion, the stem portion forming between the head portion and the base portion, on an outside, a U-shaped groove on each side of the elongation axis, the width of the head portion begin wider than the width of the base portion, or
the strand of material is deprived of free end and comprises at least two elbows, each of said at least two elbows being formed by a pointed part at the meeting point of curved parts of the strand of material, each of said curved parts being only concave or convex, each of the pointed part extending along a direction forming a non-zero angle with a tangent at the level of the pointed part of a circle passing by the pointed part and having its center at the level of a center of the central part.