Patent Application
20080314403
The present invention relates to a mascara brush which is used for performing makeup of eyelash with mascara solution applied thereto, and more particularly, relates to a disk-type mascara whose brush portion is formed whole at the end of a wand and in such a shape that plurality of triangle-like elliptic disks are piled consecutively with an alternated arrangement with the angle of 120 degree.
Generally, mascara is comprised of a case for containing mascara solution with a constant viscosity and a tone of color, a mascara brush for applying the mascara solution contained in the case to eyelash and a cap assembled to the mascara brush.
There are two kinds of conventional mascara brushes; a bristle-brush twisted from two wires with plastic bristles and a disk-type mascara brush whose brush portion is formed at the end of a wand as if pluralities of disks are piled consecutively.
Because the conventional bristle-brush is made by plastic bristles twisted with wires, its process is so complex that productivity is low and there are difficulties in maintaining constant quality of the brush. Although the disk-type brush that is made whole by plastic or rubber, as disclosed in Japan patent application No. 1988-85113, U.S. Pat. No. 6,591,842 and Korean Laid-upon patent No. 2002-0095157, is productive and easy to maintain quality, it is hardly capable to comb eyelash up than the bristle-brush, so that it does not widely spread to the Eastern people whose eyelash is short and thin.
The disk-type mascara brush does not stimulate eyelash much so that feeling in use is superior to the bristle-brush because it is mainly made of a silicon rubber. However, because center of all the plate-tooth are identical to that of the wand and the size of all the plate-tooth is identical, eyelash becomes combed up while the plate-tooth is hardly snuggled into eyelash when combing eyelash up with the mascara brush to which mascara solution is applied, so that not only eyelash cannot be combed well or curled roundly to the tip but also there happens a problem that eyelash clings together.
The present invention is designed to solve at least one of those problems. An object of the present invention is to provide a mascara brush capable of minimizing stimulation to eyelash as well as snuggling the plate-tooth of a mascara brush into eyelash easily, so that not only curling of eyelash can be performed easily, eyelash can be arranged in order and a natural eyelash makeup is possible but also productivity is maximized and constant quality can be maintained by forming it whole.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided of a mascara brush where the brush portion is formed at the end of the wand as if disks are piled as well as the conventional disk-type mascara brush, the mascara brush is characterized in that the brush portion of the mascara brush is formed whole and in such a shape that triangle-like elliptic disks are piled consecutively with an alternated arrangement with the angle of 120 degree.
According to the present invention, productivity can be maximized because the brush portion is produced simply by forming it whole, cost can be reduced and consumer s credit can be achieved because constant quality can be maintained, stimulation to eyelash can be minimized because it is made of soft and elastic material such as silicon rubber. Further mascara solution can be applied to eyelash so plentiful that eyelash can be shown exuberantly because the brush portion is formed in such a shape that triangle-like elliptic disks are piled consecutively with an alternated arrangement with the angle of 120 degree so that tooth-indented portion is formed between tooth-protruded portions. In addition, curling of eyelash can be done well, no cling of eyelash exists and natural eyelash makeup can be done because combing is performed as tooth snuggles into eyelash well.
The mascara brush of the present invention will now be described in detail taken into drawings accompanied.
Because the accompanied drawings are only an example to show the technical idea of the present invention, and thus it should be understood that the accompanied drawings do not limit the technical idea of the present invention.
As it is found, a disk-type mascara brush according to the present invention has a brush portion 1 provided at one end of a wand 2, a mascara cap 3 provided at the other end of a wand 2 and the brush portion 1 formed whole at the end of the wand 2. In particular, the brush portion 10 is formed whole and in such a shape that triangle-like elliptic disks are piled consecutively with an alternated arrangement with the angle of 120 degree (b).
The arranging angle of 120 degree (b) of the plate-tooth 12 is an angle to ensure that the plate-tooth 12 can comb eyelash easily. It is known by experiments that similar effect can be achieved with an arranging angle of 90 degree of the plate-tooth 12. Thus it is preferable that the arranging angle of the plate-tooth 12 is 90 degree or 120 degree.
Although the shape of each plate of the plate-tooth 12 which constitutes the brush portion 10 is shown triangle-like elliptic, as shown in
In addition, material of the brush portion 10 can be silicon rubber, rubber, nylon, polyethylene, polypropylene, etc, and more preferably, it is made of silicon rubber.
The portion where the plate-tooth 12 is protruded at the outer circumstance of the brush portion 10 makes a tooth-protruded portion 14 and the portion where the plate-tooth 12 is indented make a tooth-indented portion 16, and tooth-spaced portion 18 is formed between the tooth-protruded portion 14 and the tooth-indented portion 16.
The operation of the mascara brush according to the present invention will now be described.
As described above, the mascara brush according to the present invention has the tooth-protruded portion 14 and the tooth-indented portion 16 at the outer circumstance thereof. When the mascara brush according to the present invention is taken out after putting it in a mascara container in order to make up eyelash, much mascara solution can be applied in the tooth-indented portion 16 between the tooth-protruded portions 14, thus mascara solution can be applied to the eyelash easily and curling of eyelash can be done easily by using the tooth-protruded portion 14. Because the tooth-protruded portion 14 can snuggles into eyelash, even the Eastern people, whose eyelash is short and thin, can make eyelash looked exuberantly and curled easily.
In addition, because the tooth-spaced portion 18 with slant between the plate-tooth 12, eyelash can be combed up while being inserted in the tooth-spaced portion 18 when combing to makeup eyelash, thus effect to curl eyelash is very excellent. It is suitable that the angle (a) of the tooth-spaced portion 18 is ranged between 5 degree and 30 degree, more preferably, between 7 degree and 30 degree. If the angle (a) of the tooth-spaced portion 18 exceeds 30 degree, effect to curl is decreased because eyelash can not be inserted into the tooth-indented portion 18 when combing eyelash.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20-2005-0006260 | Mar 2005 | KR | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/KR06/00714 | 3/2/2006 | WO | 00 | 8/6/2007 |
