Patent Application
20210085044
Application of cosmetics and/or other personal beauty or health products often requires multiple products, in multiple forms (e.g., lotion, creme, powder, tube, gloss, lipstick), and that are applied in varying ways (e.g., brush, tube (e.g., for lipstick), pad, applicator, spray, spritz, pen), and with varying cleanup requirements. This can result in an array of products with varying application styles for even a simple cosmetics application.
Although a home or a cosmetics studio may be well-equipped with all of the necessary products, application tools, and cleanup tools, it is often necessary to apply cosmetics in other locations that are not optimally equipped for cosmetics application, e.g., when traveling, or at a customer's, client's, or friend's preferred or needed location for cosmetics application. Under these circumstances, it may be necessary to pack and/or organize products, application tools, and/or cleanup supplies and tools for transportation and usability.
Numerous factors must be addressed when packing, organizing, transporting, unpacking, and/or using cosmetics: orientation (some items must be oriented a particular way and cannot be turned on their sides or upside down), fragile or delicate items (e.g., brush bristles must be protected from damage), spilling hazards, findability (avoiding losing items or having items be difficult to find in a storage/organization solution), and convenience for packing and unpacking. One item that can be particularly tricky to store, transport, unpack, and pack is makeup brushes. In many situations, it is desirable to carry, in a transportable cosmetics situation, a set of makeup brushes. Such a set of makeup brushes may include brushes of varying lengths, widths, shapes, bristle lengths, bristle densities, bristle stiffnesses, bristle materials, other features, and combinations of such features.
Unfortunately, many transportable cosmetics bags or other cosmetics storage/transportation solutions do not sufficiently protect one or more items, or do not properly maintain the orientation of one or more items, or are unnecessarily difficult to pack or unpack, or are not sufficiently durable, or do not keep one or more items in place or sufficiently organized, or are otherwise deficient in one or more of the measures described herein.
What is needed is an improved cosmetics bag or solution for storage and/or transportation of cosmetics items, tools, and supplies.
A cosmetics bag comprises a bottom part and a top part having a complementary common seam. The bottom party and top part are secured together along a part of the common seam, and further include a zipper or other securement mechanism for securing the bag in a closed configuration or for allowing the bag to transition into an open configuration. The bag is substantially a rectangular prism. The bag includes a removable brush cylinder, sized to fit standing inside the storage space formed when the bag is in a closed configuration. The bag further includes a stabilizer, which may be a flexible wall or compartment divider, to keep the brush cylinder in place and to keep it from tipping.
An improved cosmetics bag and organization system and method are disclosed.
The following table is for convenience only, and should not be construed to supersede any potentially inconsistent disclosure herein.
As shown in
A cosmetics bag 100 may comprise a removeable brush cylinder 110. Many brush cylinders are known in the art. In one embodiment, as shown in
Although a brush cylinder may be cylindrical, i.e., have a circular cross section, a brush storage container may have different shapes, e.g., square, other polygon, or an irregular cross section or even a varying cross section. In general, however, a cylindrical cross section is preferable for usability and for protection of brushes.
Brush cylinders may have different sizes. A person of ordinary skill will appreciate that a brush cylinder may scale and/or vary in one or more dimensions or in shape, and that the cosmetics bag and/or other elements of the cosmetics bag disclosed herein may scale and/or vary to accommodate brush cylinders of varying shapes and/or sizes. As disclosed herein, a brush cylinder having a 3.5 inch diameter and a height of 8.0 inches is standard and conventional for brush cylinders.
In one embodiment, brush cylinder 110 may have a rigid, or at least partially rigid, sidewall 115. Structural rigidity on sidewall 115—through either a sidewall 115 that is entirely rigid or a sidewall 115 with structural components to maintain shape rigidity—may generally maintain the cross-sectional shape of the brush cylinder 110 and/or prevent the brush cylinder 110 from collapsing or deforming (absent extreme external forces).
The top 116 and bottom 117 of brush cylinder 110 may be either rigid, flexible, or partially rigid. In one embodiment, top 116, bottom 117, and sidewall 115 of brush cylinder 110 are rigid or substantially rigid.
In one embodiment, brush cylinder 110 may comprise a complementary top part 118 part and bottom part 119 as shown in
The cosmetics bag may have many shapes and or sizes. In one embodiment, cosmetics bag 100 is a rectangular prism with rounded corners, as shown in
Cosmetics bag 100 may be made from many materials, or combinations of materials, e.g., leather, plastic, fabric, cork, and/or any other material known in the art for a bag.
In one embodiment, cosmetics bag 100 may open and close using a lid system as shown in
The edge seam 135 on lid 130, including both the top and bottom of such seam, may comprise means for securing lid 130 to the bottom of bag 100 and/or for maintaining and/or locking bag 100 in a closed state. In one embodiment, the securing means may comprise a zipper. The zipper may comprise one pull that runs the entire length of seam 135, or may comprise two pulls that meet somewhere along seam 135. May types of zippers are known in the art. Other zipper configurations are also possible.
Other securement means may be used by themselves or in conjunction with a zipper. For example, one or more of a snap, latch, hook, hook-and-loop fastener, or other securement mechanism may be used to secure lid 130 to the bottom of bag 100 and/or maintain bag 100 in a closed state, while allowing for release of the securement mechanism to transition cosmetics bag 100 into an open or openable state.
In another embodiment, seam 135 may go all the way around the perimeter of bag 100 such that lid 130 is completely detachable from the bottom of bag 100. In this embodiment, lid 130 may be removed from the bottom of bag 100 by simply lifting lid 130. Lid 130 may be secured to the bottom of bag 100 by one or more of a snap, zipper, latch, hook, or other securement means, system, or hardware.
In one embodiment, seam 135 is located approximately 1.5 inches from the top of cosmetics bag 100. The distance from the top of the bag to the seam may vary. The further the seam is from the top of the bag, the more likely the edge of the lid is to catch on or other be obstructed by the contents of the bag when the lid is being opened/raised or lowered/closed. Additionally, placing the seam too far from the top of the bag may result in instability because of the weight of the lid in an open configuration.
In another embodiment, the distance from the top of the bag to the seam may be non-uniform around the perimeter of the bag.
The bag may include a handle for carrying. As shown in
In one embodiment, the height dimension of the space on the inside of cosmetics bag 100 is slightly greater than the height of brush cylinder 110. Brush Cylinder 110 may thereby stand up comfortably inside cosmetics bag 100.
The internal compartment of the cosmetics bag may comprise a brush cylinder stabilizer for maintaining the brush cylinder in an upright orientation and for keeping the brush cylinder at a particular location or in a certain area in the internal compartment of the cosmetics bag.
In one embodiment, a brush cylinder stabilizer may comprise a wall system 150, as shown in
In one embodiment, compartment wall 150 system may be secured, e.g., via hook-and-loop fastener, or snap(s), or latches, or other means, to one or more fixed locations on the internal wall of cosmetics bag 100. Securing the compartment divider system at one or more locations to the wall may provide rigidity, stability, and structure for the compartment divider system.
In one embodiment, compartment divider system 150 includes a compartment for brush cylinder 110, as shown in
The height of the walls comprising compartment divider system 150 may vary. In one embodiment, the walls comprising or formed by compartment divider system 150 may be substantially the same height as the height of the internal space in cosmetics bag 100. In another embodiment the walls may be of varying heights, and/or may be uniform or different levels from the bottom of the cosmetics bag. The walls comprising the compartment divider system may also be straps instead of walls. The height and/or pattern of a particular wall comprising compartment divider system 150 may depend on one or more factors, including but not limited to the height of an item anticipated to be stored in a particular compartment (for a shorter item, a shorter wall may be more desirable and/or convenient because a taller wall may make it more difficult to insert a hand or fingers into the compartment to retrieve and/or place an item). For items for which it may be possible for the bottom of the item to slip or slide, it may be desirable for the wall to reach to or close to the floor of cosmetics bag 100, so that the item cannot slip or slide under the wall. For taller items, a shorter wall may be undesirable, inconvenient, and/or ineffective because items may tip over the wall and into other compartments or obstruct other items or access to other items, or items may tip over and fall out of the desired or original compartment. Additionally, the height of a wall or set of walls in compartment divider system 150 may depend on the size of the area bounded by the walls.
In general, the walls comprising compartment dividing system 150 may have heights, patterns, bottoms, and tops that depend on the design of the bag and the items anticipated to be stored in the bag, including in a particular compartment.
In some embodiments, one or more of the walls comprising the compartment dividing system may not be strictly vertical, or may not have a uniform vertical orientation across all walls. In general, walls comprising the compartment dividing system may be designed to accommodate items of many different shapes, sizes, orientations, weights, weight distributions, and/or other characteristics.
As described herein above, in one embodiment the walls of the compartment divider system may have a uniform height that is substantially the height of the internal space of the cosmetics bag.
As shown in
The back wall of cosmetics bag 100 may include a back compartment sized for two or three full-sized face or eye shadow palettes.
Compartment divider system 150 further creates an open storage space that may be used for a variety of items, e.g., bottles, etc.
The front wall of bag 100 may include two deep pockets for smaller items, e.g., mascara, lip liner, tweezers, and lash curlers.
The inside of lid 130 may include a zipper-closeable pocket 160 for smaller items, e.g., rings, jewelry, etc.
In one embodiment, cosmetics bag 100 has a substantially flat bottom and sides that are sufficiently rigid and secured to the bottom in such a manner that cosmetics bag 100 stands up by default unless a force, which may be a substantial force, is applied to the cosmetics bag. Features to maintain the upright orientation of the bag may be important because cosmetics bag 100 may be store items that cannot tip, or that would spill if tipped.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 62903509 | Sep 2019 | US |
