Liquid application with resilient support
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Sakura Kurepasu
InventorTadashi Mukunoki
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Abstract
A liquid applicator includes a tubular casing, a liquid holding member, and a support member. The support member whose modulus of elasticity is smaller than that of the liquid holding member is provided between a bottom end portion of the liquid holding member and a bottom wall of the casing. The support is formed such that at least a portion of an outer circumferential surface of the support member is in pressing contact with an inner circumferential surface of the casing and that the support member is compressively deformable in an axial direction thereof while being held tightly between the liquid holding member and the bottom wall of the casing. Accordingly, the liquid holding member can be reliably supported in the casing.
Claims11
A liquid applicator comprising:
- a cylindrical casing having an opening defined at a lead end thereof and having a bottom wall at a bottom end thereof;
- a liquid holding member which is contained in the casing;
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- a polyhedral support member provided between a bottom end of the liquid holding member and the bottom wall of the casing, the support member having a modulus of elasticity smaller than that of the liquid holding member and being formed such that vertices of the support member are in pressing contact with an inner circumferential surface of the casing and that the support member is compressively deformable in an axial direction thereof while being held tightly between the liquid holding member and the bottom wall of the casing, wherein the support member is formed of an elastic material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.