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EP 0182655 A3 19861210 - HOLDER FOR COSMETICS STICK

Title (en)

HOLDER FOR COSMETICS STICK

Publication

EP 0182655 A3 19861210 (EN)

Application

EP 85308424 A 19851119

Priority

GB 8429176 A 19841119

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0182655A2] Recent improvements in cosmetics materials have included the development of certain highly volatile binders for powder colouring compositions, e.g. facial blushers etc.; these binders can be used to retain the composition in integral stick form, and have the added advantage of possessing high slip coefficients, thus aiding application of the cosmetic to the skin. However, being highly volatile, they tend to evaporate from the stick and even in the close confines of the conventional twiststick assembly (e.g. as hitherto used for lipsticks) this evaporation would quite quickly result in disintegration of the stick. The invention concerns a holder assembly for a cosmetics stick incorporating such a binder and includes a base (3, 5) which is open at one end and which has relatively rotatable inner (5) and outer (3) tubes and which houses a stick holder cup (18) arranged to be axially movable by relative rotation of the tubes, and a cap (2) which fits over the open end of the base. Respective seals (31, 41) are provided to seal between the cap and the base on the one hand, and between the cup and the inner tube on the other hand so as to inhibit egress of vapour formed within the assembly by evaporation of the binder.

IPC 1-7

A45D 40/04

IPC 8 full level

A45D 40/04 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

A45D 40/04 (2013.01); A45D 2040/0062 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0182655 A2 19860528; EP 0182655 A3 19861210; GB 8429176 D0 19841227

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 85308424 A 19851119; GB 8429176 A 19841119