Cosmetic pot having a lid with a translationally moved coupling element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10111512-B2
Application number	US-201515319210-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2015
Priority date	Jun 30, 2014
Publication date	Oct 30, 2018
Grant date	Oct 30, 2018

Abstract

A cosmetic pot having a base provided with an indentation on the neck, and a lid configured to be fastened to the base. The lid includes a plate and a cap that are configured to pivot with respect to one another. The cap includes a radial cam for translationally moving at least one coupling element between a first position in which a claw of the at least one coupling element is engaged in the indentation with the lid in the rest position and the pot closed, and a second position in which the at least one coupling element has been translationally moved with respect to the first position. The lid also includes at least one coupling return element configured to automatically return the at least one coupling element to the first position.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cosmetic pot comprising:
a base comprising a neck provided with at least one peripheral indentation; and
a lid configured to close the base, said lid comprising:
an inside part comprising a coupling plate; and
an outside part comprising a cap;
the coupling plate and the cap being rotatably mounted in relation to each other, such that the lid is configured to adopt a resting position and an opening position and the coupling plate and the cap are turned in relation to each other in relation to the resting position;
the cap comprising a radial cam, the radial cam being defined by a profile forming at least one projecting active zone;
the coupling plate comprising:
a support;
at least one coupling member mounted on the support and movable in translation in relation to the support;
the at least one coupling member comprising a claw and a cam follower, the cam follower being in contact with the radial cam of the cap;
the at least one coupling member being configured to adopt at least a first position when the lid is in the resting position and a second position when the lid is in the opening position;
the second position being a position in which the cam follower of the coupling member cooperates with the at least one projecting active zone of the radial cam and in which the at least one coupling member, in the second position, is configured to be translated in relation to the first position; and
at least one coupling return member linked to the at least one coupling member and to the support, the at least one coupling return member being configured to automatically return the at least one coupling member to the first position; and

the claw of the at least one coupling member of the lid being engaged in the at least one indentation of the neck of the base when the lid is in the resting position and the pot is closed.

2. A pot according to claim 1 , wherein:
the lid comprises a position return member; and
the position return member is linked to the support of the coupling plate and is linked to the cap, such that the position return member is in a neutral configuration when the lid is in the resting position, and in a deformed configuration when the lid is in the opening position, such that the position return member is configured to induce a counter-rotation of the cap in relation to the coupling plate when the lid is in the opening position so as to bring the lid automatically back into the resting position.

3. A pot according to claim 2 , wherein:
the position return member is a blade held in a slot formed in the support of the coupling plate and also held in a slot formed in the cap.

4. A pot according to claim 1 , wherein:
the radial cam is a cam with an outside profile.

5. A pot according to claim 1 , wherein:
the at least one projecting active zone of the radial cam has a plane of symmetry such that the cap and the coupling plate of the lid are configured to turn in relation to each other in a clockwise or anticlockwise direction.

6. A pot according to claim 1 , wherein:
the lid comprises at least two coupling members movable in translation, each of the coupling members comprising a claw and a cam follower in contact with the radial cam of the cap;
the cam comprises at least two projecting active zones;
each of the coupling members is configured to adopt a first position when the lid is in the resting position and a second position when the lid is in the opening position; and
the second position of each of the coupling members is a position in which the cam follower of each of the coupling members cooperates with a corresponding projecting active zone of the radial cam and in which each of the coupling members, in the second position, is translated in relation to the first position when the lid is in the opening position.

7. A pot according to claim 6 , wherein:
the lid comprises a single coupling return member configured to return at the same time each of the at least two coupling members automatically to the first position.

8. A pot according to claim 1 , wherein:
the base comprises at least one rib configured to keep the coupling plate of the lid oriented in relation to the base when the at least one coupling member is in the first position.

9. A pot according to claim 1 , wherein:
the at least one projecting active zone is configured to form a stable opening position.

Assignees

• Chanel Parfums Beaute

Inventors

• Salciarini Christian
• Chandelier Julien
• Perbal Gregory

Classifications

• A45D40/0068 Primary

  Jars · CPC title

• A45D40/222 Primary

  Means for closing the lid · CPC title

• B65D43/0225

  secured by rotation · CPC title

• B65D83/0454

  the whole forming a circular container with rotating parts (B65D83/0463 takes precedence) · CPC title