Patent Application
20230218056
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The disclosure relates to curling devices and more particularly pertains to a new curling device for curling a user's eyelashes. The device comprises a dish with a diameter of no more than 3.0 inches and a lip that is oriented at an angle of no more than 110.0 degrees with the dish. The user's eyelashes are compressed against the lip and the lip is drawn along a full length of the user's eyelashes.
The prior art relates to curling devices including a variety of eyelash curlers that, at minimum, include a pair of jaws pivotally coupled to each other for engaging and curling eyelashes. The prior art discloses an ergonomic cosmetic applicator that has various curves integrated into the applicator for curing eyelashes and applying cosmetics.
The prior art discloses a variety of curling implements that has a concavely arcuate element, against which eyelashes are compressed, for curling the eyelashes when the concavely arcuate element is drawn along the eyelashes.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a dish that has a diameter of no more than 3.0 inches thereby facilitating the dish to be gripped between a user's index finger and the user's thumb. The dish has a lip extending around a perimeter of the dish thereby facilitating a selected number of the user's eyelashes to be positioned against the lip. The lip has a length of no more than 1.0 inches and the lip is oriented at an angle of no more than 110.0 degrees with respect to the dish. The user compresses the selected number of eyelashes between the user's thumb and the lip to impart a curl into the selected number of eyelashes when the lip is pulled along a full length of the selected number of eyelashes.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The dish 12 has a first surface 22, a second surface 24 and a perimeter edge 26 extending between the first surface 22 and the second surface 24, and the perimeter edge 26 is continuously arcuate about a center point 28 of the first surface 22 such that the dish 12 has a circular shape. The lip 18 extends away from the first surface 22, the lip 18 is aligned with the perimeter edge 26 and the lip 18 is coextensive with the perimeter edge 26. The lip 18 has an inwardly facing surface 30 that is directed toward the center point 28 of the first surface 22. The inwardly facing surface 30 is oriented at the angle of no more than 110.0 degrees with respect to the first surface 22. Additionally, the lip 18 has a distal edge 32 with respect to the first surface 22 and the inwardly facing surface 30 has the length that is no more than 1.0 inch between the first surface 22 and the distal edge 32.
In use, the dish 12 is gripped between the user's index finger 14 and the user's thumb 16 and the lip 18 is positioned above the selected number of the user's eyelashes 20 at a point that is positioned next to the user's eyelid 34. The selected number of the user's eyelashes 20 is compressed against the inwardly facing surface 30 of the lip 18. Continuing, the dish 12 is drawn away from the user's eyelid 34 such that the lip 18 travels along the full length of the selected number of the user's eyelashes 20. In this way the selected number of the user's eyelashes 20 is curled as the distal edge 32 of the lip 18 moves along the selected number of the user's eyelashes 20. The process of curling the user's eyelashes 20 can be repeated as many times as necessary to impart the desired amount of curl into the user's eyelashes 20.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
