Packaging and applicator device
AssigneeL'oreal
InventorJean-Louis H. Gueret
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Abstract
A device for packaging and applying a substance may include a receptacle for containing the substance and an applicator member having a retention skirt configured to be fastened to the receptacle. The retention skirt may extend in the direction of an axis and may have a radial inner face. The receptacle may include a support in contact with the radial inner face of the retention skirt. The support may contact the radial inner face of the skirt along at least a fraction of the support's height along the axis without contacting the radial inner face in every radial location with respect to the axis.
Claims43
A device for packaging and applying a substance, the device comprising:
- a receptacle for containing the substance;
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- an elastically compressible applicator member comprising a retention skirt configured to be fastened to the receptacle, said skirt extending in the direction of an axis and having a radial inner face,
- wherein the receptacle comprises a support in contact with the radial inner face of the retention skirt,
- wherein the support contacts the radial inner face of the skirt along at least a fraction of the support's height along the axis without contacting at least one radial location in the radial inner face, and
- wherein the support does not contact the radial inner face entirely along the axis in the at least one radial location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.