Applicator
AssigneeMitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited
InventorSeiichi Maruyama
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Abstract
An applicator in which an applying body consisting of a brush is surely attached to a front barrel to solve a problem that a part of the brush remains stuck inside the front barrel to cause failure of attachment when the applying body is being attached to the front barrel. The applicator includes a front barrel provided on the front end side of a rear barrel, and an applying body formed of a brush with a flange portion at its rear end and arranged inside the front barrel. A receiving part of the flange portion of the applying body and the inner face of the front barrel are in contact with each other in a non-surface contact manner.
Claims5
An applicator comprising:
- a barrel cylinder storing an application liquid in a storage portion in a rear part thereof;
- and
- an applying body, formed of a brush having a flange portion arranged in an interior front part of the barrel cylinder so as to supply the application liquid to the applying body from the storage portion inside the barrel cylinder,
- wherein the flange portion of the applying body includes a receiving part;
- and
- wherein an inner peripheral surface of a front end of the interior front part of the barrel cylinder includes a step portion having a level difference and configured with an engagement portion having multiple triangular tops formed at predetermined intervals on the inner peripheral surface of the front end of the interior front part of the barrel cylinder, and bottoms connected along a circumference of the engagement portion such that the receiving part of the flange portion makes point contacts with the step portion on the inner peripheral surface of the front end of the interior front part of the barrel cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.