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US 2003/0150471 A1Published application
Dual mirror compact
AssigneeHenlopen Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorPatrick Fraillon
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Abstract
A compact for cosmetics, including a base for holding cosmetic material and a cover hingedly connected to the base in clamshell fashion, with a window formed in one portion of the cover for viewing the cosmetic material, and a first inwardly facing mirror mounted in another portion of the cover so as not to block the window, wherein a second mirror is mounted in the cover for movement between a retracted position underlying the first mirror and an extended position in which the second mirror blocks the window and faces inwardly.
Claims11
A compact for holding cosmetics or the like, including:
- (a) a base for containing a quantity of cosmetic material;
- and
- (b) a cover hingedly connected to the base and having an extended area with an inner surface and an outer surface, the cover carrying
- (i) a window through which contained cosmetic material can be viewed, disposed in a first portion of the extended area, and
- (ii) an inwardly-facing first mirror, mounted on the inner surface in a second portion of the extended area so as not to block the window;
- wherein the improvement comprises:
- (c) a second mirror, mounted in the cover inwardly of said inner surface for movement from a retracted position in which the second mirror underlies and at least partially blocks the first mirror without blocking the window, to an extended position in which the second mirror underlies and blocks the window while exposing the first mirror for use when the cover is open, said second mirror being inwardly-facing at least in the extended position.
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