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US 9,585,455 B2Granted
Nail polish container holder
AssigneeStation 22, LLC
InventorsElizabeth Boyle, Mark Miclette
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Abstract
Disclosed is a holder for nail polish containers, including at least one ring portion configured to fit around a user's finger and having formed therein an opening slit, and at least one crown portion disposed above and interconnected with the ring portions. The crown has a cavity formed therein and an expandable opening configured to receive a nail polish container. The ring portions and the crown are portions of a unified body formed from a substantially pliable material.
Claims7
A holder for nail polish containers, comprising:
- at least two ring portions each configured to fit around one of a user's fingers;
- a crown portion;
- wherein each of the ring portions includes a first end that is interconnected with the crown portion and a second end distal therefrom and having a slit opening, and wherein each ring portion has formed at a location between the first end and the second end a squeeze tab wherein the squeeze tabs are collectively configured to expand the slit openings when pressure to them is applied;
- wherein the crown includes a base proximate to the interconnection of the crown and the ring portions, side walls that are conical-frustum shaped extending from the base to an upper surface, and wherein the side walls have a first diameter at the base that is smaller than a second diameter at an upper surface;
- wherein the base, side walls and upper surface together define a cavity;
- the upper surface having formed therein least three slit openings that converge at the centroid of a horizontal plane of the upper surface and that form a plurality of triangular flaps;
- wherein the crown is configured to receive a nail polish container;
- wherein the base has disposed into the cavity a plurality of semispherical protrusions configured to interface with the bottom of the nail polish container;
- and
- wherein the ring portions and the crown are formed from a substantially pliable material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.