Applicator with separately produced and mounted bristle plates

Abstract

A cosmetics applicator with an applicator core and a finger-carrying elastic plate, which has a first three-dimensional shape prior to being united with the core, wherein the finger-carrying plate is attached to the applicator core in such a way that a second three-dimensional shape, which deviates from the first three-dimensional shape, is thereby forced upon it.

1 . A cosmetics applicator comprising:
 an applicator core; and   a finger-carrying elastic plate, which has a first three-dimensional shape prior to being united with the core, wherein the finger-carrying plate is attached to the applicator core in such a way that a second three-dimensional shape, which deviates from the first three-dimensional shape, is thereby forced upon the first three-dimensional shape.   
     
     
         2 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate, due to its attachment to the applicator core, is under an internal tension that tends to restore the original first three-dimensional shape. 
     
     
         3 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate can be attached to the applicator core in such a way that a second three-dimensional shape is thus forced upon the finger-carrying plate, which second three-dimensional shape deviates from the first three-dimensional shape more than just insubstantially. 
     
     
         4 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate has a thin portion in the form of a pivoting or film hinge, which connects individual portions of the finger-carrying plate with one another and, due to its flexibility, supports or defines a transfer of the finger-carrying plate from a first three-dimensional shape into a second three-dimensional shape. 
     
     
         5 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate is so thin, flexible and mounted on the applicator core in such a way that a curvature of its main surfaces respectively changes on a predominant part of the respective main surface when the finger-carrying plate is transferred from its first three-dimensional shape into its second three-dimensional shape in which it is fixated on the applicator core. 
     
     
         6 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate is wound in a helical manner about the applicator core and fixated on the core in this position. 
     
     
         7 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the finger-carrying plate is ≦9 mm, and/or the fingers are predominantly configured as bristles with a maximum bristle diameter of 0.75 mm, and/or the fingers are configured with a maximum length of 12 mm, and/or a maximum spacing of immediately adjacent fingers is between 0.5 mm and 2.75 mm. 
     
     
         8 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one finger-carrying plate is laid around the applicator core in particular in a U-shaped or V-shaped manner, so that each finger-carrying plate reaches over the applicator core on two circumferential sides and extends over a free end face of the applicator core, or that a finger-carrying plate is configured in a star shape and is laid on the applicator core in such a way that the finger-carrying plate covers, approximately with its center, the free end face of the applicator core and reaches over a plurality of circumferential sides of the applicator core. 
     
     
         9 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate is laid or folded in a circumferential direction around at least two circumferential sides of a polygonal applicator core and substantially rests flat against the respective circumferential sides. 
     
     
         10 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate is bent over at least 90° in a circumferential direction around a round or oval applicator core. 
     
     
         11 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one finger-carrying plate is fixated on the applicator core in such a way that the applicator core, due to this attachment, folds the finger-carrying plate so that the finger-carrying plate protrudes outwards from the applicator core at least in some portions. 
     
     
         12 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate has on a side thereof facing towards the applicator core at least one positive-fit member, and at least one T-strip or dovetail strip or beading strip with which the finger-carrying plate can be anchored by positive connection on the applicator core in its second three-dimensional shape, or that the applicator core has on a side thereof facing towards the plate at least one such positive-fit member. 
     
     
         13 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 18 , wherein the applicator core has at least one T-groove, dovetail groove or beading groove accessible from an end face of the core, into which a corresponding counterpart of the finger-carrying plate can be inserted by a movement in a direction of a longitudinal core axis after the finger-carrying plate has been forced into its second three-dimensional shape, or the finger-carrying plate has at least one such groove which is accessible from an end face of the plate. 
     
     
         14 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 19 , wherein the finger-carrying plate has, at two spaced-apart locations, positive-fit members that come to rest against each other when the finger-carrying plate assumes a second three-dimensional shape, and then jointly form a single two-part T-strip, a single two-part dovetail strip or a single two-part beading strip which is accommodated by a single T-groove, dovetail groove or beading groove on an applicator core and thus retains the finger-carrying plate in its second three-dimensional shape on the applicator core. 
     
     
         15 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claims 14 , wherein the cosmetics applicator comprises a ring-like or cap-like end part which is fixed on, or latched to, the applicator core, and which prevents the T-connection, the dovetail connection or the beading connection from being pulled apart. 
     
     
         16 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate and the applicator core are held against each other by at least one retaining or latching organ or buttoning device. 
     
     
         17 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate is retained on the applicator core by a pressure-sensitive adhesive, a hook-and-loop fastener or a magnet. 
     
     
         18 . The cosmetics applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the finger-carrying plate has, at least in a part of the portions in which it rests against itself or another finger-carrying plate after having been forced into its second three-dimensional shape, a gap in a bristle covering and has no bristles there. 
     
     
         19 . A cosmetics applicator with a finger-carrying plate, which covers at least in some sections more than 40% of an outer circumference of the applicator core. 
     
     
         20 . A cosmetics applicator with at least one finger-carrying plate, wherein an applicator core and the finger-carrying plate are components that are produced separately and are then connected to each other.