A container for a pasty or liquid cosmetic product with a retractable application element

A container for a pasty or liquid cosmetic product, comprising:

• an elongated body, extending in a longitudinal direction, provided with a bottom zone and a free edge;
• a reservoir configured to contain the product, the reservoir being movable in translation within the body between a position of maximum pushing-in and a position of minimum pushing-in, the position of minimum pushing-in being a high working position;
• the reservoir comprising a bottom and a free edge longitudinally remote from the bottom;
• an elastically compressible device comprising a spring interposed between the body and the reservoir;
• the elastically compressible device providing two stable axial configurations of withdrawal of the reservoir in relation to a configuration of maximum axial retraction demarcating a position of maximum pushing-in of the reservoir;
• the two stable axial configurations comprising:
• a maximum extension configuration the reservoir demarcating the high working position of the reservoir;
• and
• a stable retracted configuration demarcating a low resting position of the reservoir, the low resting position being intermediate between the position of maximum pushing-in and the high working position;
• movement of the reservoir between the two stable axial configurations being made by retraction of the reservoir into the configuration of maximum axial retraction against the axial spring;
• a cap;
• an application member comprising a shaft joined to the cap;
• an applicator terminating the shaft and configured to be loaded with an amount of the product when the applicator is plunged into the reservoir in a closing configuration in relation to the reservoir as the shaft traverses the edge of the reservoir;
• the cap being configured, in the closing configuration, to be retracted at least approximately within the body and, when the reservoir is in the high working position, to project at least partly out from the body by a distance to enable a user to extract the application member out from the reservoir and from the body by means of the user grasping the cap and axially pulling the cap;
• complementary members distributed on the shaft of the application member and on the reservoir proximate the free edge of the reservoir to axially link the shaft to the reservoir while ensuring sealing obturation of the reservoir at the free edge of the reservoir when the reservoir is in the maximum pushing-in configuration;
• the complementary members comprising:
• a peripheral part comprising:
• an upper portion capping the edge of the reservoir while extending laterally to an inside surface of the body;
• and
• a lower portion sealingly engaged in the reservoir proximate the free edge of the reservoir;
• an inside part comprised of a material more flexible than a material of the peripheral part, the inside part being fastened to the peripheral part, the inside part comprising an inside skirt comprising an upper portion having an inside surface flared toward an outside of the reservoir;
• a finger extending in the peripheral part for transverse movement of the finger between a position closer to the longitudinal direction and a position farther from the longitudinal direction, the finger comprising a head situated transversely outside the reservoir, but always inside the body;
• a cam-forming surface provided on the inside surface of the body, configured to push the head towards the longitudinal direction during a descending movement of the reservoir into the body;
• and
• a widened portion provided on the shaft at a location such that, when the application member is in the closing configuration in the reservoir, the widened portion is engaged by friction in the upper portion of the inside skirt and, in relation to the longitudinal direction, is at a lower level than a level of the finger.