Patent Application
20250049199
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The disclosure relates to nail treatment kit and more particularly pertains to a new nail treatment kit for preventing recently applied nail polish from transferring to external surfaces.
The prior art describes nail treatment kits and methods for performing cosmetic treatments to a user's nails, including doing so in a manner which lowers a risk of infection. However, the prior art fails to disclose a nail treatment kit or method for preventing recently applied nail polish from transferring to external surfaces which utilizes a sleeve which covers the user's toes so that the user may wear other footwear shortly after applying nail polish to the user's toenails.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a nail polish drying substance is configured to absorb solvents in the nail polish and evaporate more readily than the solvents of the nail polish. A sleeve has an open rear end and a closed front end. The sleeve also has a size such that the sleeve is configured for receiving the plurality of toenails and a plurality of toes of the foot through the open rear end. The sleeve comprises a fluid impermeable material such that the sleeve is configured to inhibit the nail polish from permeating the sleeve. The fluid impermeable material is flexible such that the fluid impermeable material is configured to conform to an exterior of the foot.
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
As best illustrated in
A sleeve 18 has an open rear end 20 and a closed front end 22 and has a size such that the sleeve 18 is configured for receiving a plurality of toenails 34 and a plurality of toes 32 of a foot 30 through the open rear end 20. The sleeve 18 comprises a fluid impermeable material such that the sleeve 18 is configured to inhibit the nail polish 12 from permeating the sleeve 18. The fluid impermeable material is also flexible such that the fluid impermeable material is configured to conform to an exterior of the foot 30. The fluid impermeable material may, for example, comprise a plastic sheet.
The size of the sleeve 18 is such that the sleeve 18 is configured to extend from the toes 32 to a plurality of metatarsophalangeal joints 36 of the foot 30. A cuticle oil 40 coats a front portion 26 of an inner surface 24 of the sleeve 18 and is configured for moisturizing a plurality of nail beds 38 of the foot 30. An adhesive 42 coats a rear portion 28 of the inner surface 24 of the sleeve 18 and is configured for removably adhering to the foot 30 to form a seal between the sleeve 18 and the foot 30. A shielding strip 44 is removably coupled to the adhesive 42. The shielding strip 44 is removed from the adhesive 42 during use so that the adhesive 42 may be bonded to the foot 30.
Another embodiment of the invention illustrated by
It may be desirable to wait a period of time after applying the nail polish drying substance 14 and before positioning the plurality of toenails 34 and the plurality of toes 32 into the sleeve 18. The nail polish 12 may be removed by the sleeve 18 if the sleeve 18 receives the toes 32 before the nail polish 12 has dried sufficiently to set in place and remain substantially in place when contacted by the sleeve 18. In some cases, a predetermined time (10 minutes, e.g.) may be allowed to elapse between the step of depositing the nail polish drying substance 14 and inserting the toes 32 into the sleeve 18.
The toenails 34 are positioned against a cuticle oil 40 which coats a front portion 26 of an inner surface 24 of the sleeve 18. A rear portion 28 of the inner surface 24 of the sleeve 18 is adhered to the foot 30 to form a seal between the sleeve 18 and the foot 30. The foot 30 and the sleeve 18 are inserted into an article of footwear and the sleeve 18 prevents the nail polish 12 from transferring from the plurality of toenails 34 to the article of footwear.
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.
