Cosmetic unit made of foil and a blistered tray

Abstract

A cosmetic unit having a cosmetic container that is composed of at least one film and/or at least one blistered tray and has a wet region and a dry region, having a cosmetic that is to be applied, which is kept stored in the wet region, and having a cosmetic applicator with a handle and an applying surface for applying the stored cosmetic, which applicator is preferably accommodated completely by the cosmetic container so that its applying surface is situated in the wet region and its handle is situated in the dry region; and the separation between the wet region and dry region is maintained by a means that at least essentially prevents the cosmetic from traveling from the wet region into the dry region until the cosmetic unit is opened, that the means includes a separating seal that separates the wet region and dry region from each other and that is embodied in the form of a contact seal and/or as a weld seam respectively situated between the cosmetic applicator and the cosmetic container and/or as a seal between a separate wiper or separate protective tube and the cosmetic container and/or as a contact seal or annular gap seal between the cosmetic applicator and a separate wiper or separate protective tube.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A cosmetic unit comprising:
 a cosmetic container that is composed of at least one film and/or at least one blistered tray and has a wet region and a dry region, the cosmetic container having a cosmetic that is to be applied, which is kept stored in the wet region, and having a cosmetic applicator with a handle and an applying surface for applying the stored cosmetic, which applicator is accommodated completely by the cosmetic container so that the applying surface of the applicator is situated in the wet region and the handle of the applicator is situated in the dry region; and a separation between the wet region and dry region is maintained by a separating seal that separates the wet region and dry region from each other and that is embodied in the form of a contact seal and/or as a weld seam respectively situated between the cosmetic applicator and the cosmetic container and/or as a seal between a separate wiper or separate protective tube and the cosmetic container and/or as a contact seal or annular gap seal between the cosmetic applicator and a separate wiper or separate protective tube.   
     
     
         2 . The cosmetic unit according to  claim 1 , wherein the separation between the wet region and dry region is maintained by a cosmetic holding device that restricts the mobility of the cosmetic container inside the wet region. 
     
     
         3 . The cosmetic unit according to  claim 1 , wherein the cosmetic applicator has a shaft section that connects the applying surface of the applicator and the handle of the applicator to each other or else itself constitutes the handle. 
     
     
         4 . The cosmetic unit according to  claim 3 , wherein the separating seal comprises a contact seal or a welding seam between a wall of a cavity of a tray, which forms a part of the cosmetic unit, and a shaft section of the applicator. 
     
     
         5 . The cosmetic unit according to  claim 1 , wherein the separating seal includes a contact seal or a welding seam between a shaft section of the applicator and at least one film that forms a part of the cosmetic unit, and/or the separating seal is formed by a wiper lip or by an inner circumference of a wiper that is situated opposite from the wiper lip and is inserted as a separate part into the cosmetic container in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the wiper or by a protective tube that is inserted as a separate part into the cosmetic container, which rests against the shaft section or forms an annular gap with the shaft section; and another part of the separating seal is embodied as a contact seal or as a welding seam between an outside of the wiper that is inserted as a separate part into the cosmetic container or an outside of the protective tube and a film forming part of the cosmetic unit and/or a tray forming a part of the cosmetic unit. 
     
     
         6 . The cosmetic container according to  claim 3 , wherein the shaft section has a flat surface in at least some regions and/or the shaft section is profiled so that the shaft section completely fills a cavity of a tray accommodating the shaft section. 
     
     
         7 . The cosmetic unit according to  claim 1 , wherein the tray is blistered so that the tray has a first cavity, which completely accommodates the applying surface of the applicator, and a second cavity, whose embodiment is adapted to the shaft section and possibly also to the handle, and a third cavity, which is embodied as a grasping cavity, which makes it easier to grasp the handle; the tray is sealed by a film and/or characterized in that the first cavity transitions into the second cavity with a step that prevents a wiper that is inserted into the first cavity or a protective tube that is inserted into the first cavity from being pulled out of the tray together with the applicator. 
     
     
         8 . The cosmetic unit according to  claim 1 , wherein the applicator is completely accommodated by the cosmetic container and the cosmetic container, together with the applicator that is completely accommodated therein, is sealed in airtight fashion with a film until the cosmetic container is opened. 
     
     
         9 . The cosmetic unit according to  claim 1 , wherein the cosmetic container is composed of two films that are placed against each other and fastened to each other, which accommodate the applicator and the supply of cosmetic between themselves; the separating seal between the film and the shaft section is embodied so that the separating seal is situated in a region of the shaft section that is neither thickened nor constricted in comparison to adjacent regions of the shaft section, so that the separating seal is entirely composed of a weld of the film to the shaft section. 
     
     
         10 . The cosmetic unit according to  claim 1 , wherein at a transition between the wet region and dry region, a retaining weld is provided in the form of an essentially linear welding seam, wherein the welding seam is only partially torn open in the course of opening the cosmetic unit or in the course of pulling the cosmetic applicator out of the cosmetic unit so that the cosmetic applicator can pass through, while the remaining sections of the welding seam restrain a wiper that is inserted as a separate part into the wet region against tension that is acted on the wiper by the cosmetic container in the wet region and/or the retaining weld and the separating seal are formed by a shared, linear weld, which extends essentially transversely to a longitudinal axis of the applicator and initially attaches two films that rest against each other to each other, then—in an essentially transitionless manner, and without a triangular leakage gap—extends across the shaft section of the applicator, and at this location, attaches each of the films to a respective circumference side of the shaft section in order to then attach the two films, which are resting against each other, once again in a transitionless manner in the above-mentioned sense. 
     
     
         11 . The cosmetic unit according to  claim 3 , wherein the shaft section has an at least local thickened section, which is clamped into an inner circumference of a wiper or protective tube that is inserted into the cosmetic container and thus forms at least a part of the separating seal and/or the shaft section has a spreading element with which a user can tear out or widen the separating seal by pulling on the handle of the applicator in a direction away from the wet region; the spreading element has a wedge-shaped, conical, or tapered contour; and the spreading thus produced can be embodied in the form of a diaphragm-like wiper. 
     
     
         12 . A method of using a blistered tray for producing the cosmetic unit according to  claim 1 , comprising forming the cosmetic container from the blistered tray to directly accommodate the cosmetic to be stored, together with a film or another tray, which is also blistered. 
     
     
         13 . A method of using a grasping cavity in a blistered tray in the cosmetic unit according to  claim 7 , comprising accommodating an applicator in the blistered tray in such a way that when the unit is used, this tray forces the user to grasp the applicator in a region that is far enough away from the transition from the wet region to the dry region that a possible leakage, of up to 2 ml, of cosmetic stored in the wet region into the dry region, does not come into contact with the user's fingers. 
     
     
         14 . A method for producing the cosmetic unit according to  claim 1 , comprising:
 first filling the blistered tray with a cosmetic and then, partially or completely inserting an applicator into the tray, and sealing the blistered tray in an air-tight fashion, with the aid of at least one second—likewise blistered—tray and/or with the aid of at least one film.