System for sustainable and reusable cosmetic containers
OwnerTiara Butler-Smithinventor
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Abstract
A reusable cosmetic carrying case and applicator having a pinch cap having a first flap and a second flap, a shaft body having a top portion configured to couple to a bottom portion of the pinch cap. The shaft body has an interior cavity and a removable, exchangeable cosmetic insert configured to fit within the interior cavity. Also, there is a base coupled to a bottom of the shaft body. The pinch cap can be lowered to reveal the cosmetic insert while a user simultaneously pushes up on an underside of the push cap within an interior of the cosmetic insert in order to cause the cosmetic insert to be accessible for use. Once the cosmetic insert is used up, another cosmetic insert can be inserted and used in the same carrying case and applicator.
Claims10
An apparatus, comprising:
- a reusable cosmetic carrying case, comprising:
- a pinch cap having a first flap and a second flap;
- a shaft body having a top portion configured to couple to a bottom portion of the pinch cap,
- wherein the shaft body further comprises a first interior cavity accessible from a top surface of the shaft body and further wherein the shaft body has a second interior cavity accessible from an underside interior portion of the shaft body,
- wherein the pinch cap is connected to the shaft body, and wherein the pinch cap is configured to be slidably raised to a closed position to cover the first interior cavity or to be lowered to an open position to expose the first interior cavity,
- wherein the pinch cap is configured to slide down along the shaft body and rest in the open position while remaining attached to the shaft body of the reusable cosmetic carrying case when in the open position;
- a cosmetic insert configured to fit within the first interior cavity of the shaft body, wherein the cosmetic insert is a type of solid cosmetic product, wherein the cosmetic insert is individually removable from the first interior cavity as a whole piece;
- a separate push cap that is inserted and fits within the second interior cavity of the shaft body that is accessible from an underside interior portion of the shaft body,
- wherein pushing up onto the separate push cap causes the cosmetic insert to raise up out of the first interior cavity, and releasing the separate push cap causes the cosmetic insert to naturally fall back down into the first interior cavity of the shaft body,
- wherein the cosmetic insert is removable and replaceable with another cosmetic insert from within the first interior cavity of the shaft body of the reusable cosmetic carrying case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.