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US 4,397,326 AGranted
Rotatable mascara applicator
OwnerVal A. Formicainventor
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Abstract
A rotatable mascara applicator is provided which delivers substantially more mascara to eyelashes than prior art brushes and includes a handle member, a mascara brush and means for rotatably mounting the mascara brush to the handle member so that the brush rotates upon application of mascara to eyelashes.
Claims7
A rotary mascara applicator comprising, in combination, a handle member;
- a mascara brush including a shaft and a plurality of bristles extending from a portion of said shaft;
- a housing a portion of which is connected to said handle member, internal walls of said housing defining a first bore slightly larger in cross-section than said shaft and a second bore defining an internal area connecting with but larger than said first bore, an end of said shaft of said brush passing through said first bore and terminating in said internal area;
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- rotation permitting means fixedly connected to said end of said shaft and rotatably disposed in said internal area of said housing, the inner walls of said housing serving to retain said rotation permitting means in said internal area, whereby brushing eyelashes with said brush causes said brush including said shaft and said rotation permitting means connected thereto to rotate 360.degree. in either direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.