False eyelash dispenser

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9326558-B2
Application number	US-201414206212-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 12, 2014
Priority date	Mar 15, 2013
Publication date	May 3, 2016
Grant date	May 3, 2016

Abstract

An applicator for dispensing false eyelashes includes a supply wheel and a take-up wheel, the supply wheel comprising a tape having a plurality of pockets, where the pockets secure individual or clusters of false eyelashes until they are dispensed from a dispensing pivot. The spent tape is returned to the take-up wheel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for dispensing false eyelashes comprising a casing, the casing comprising an opening for dispensing false eyelashes, a supply wheel, a dispensing pivot, a take-up wheel for spent tape, the supply wheel carrying a supply roll of carrier tape and comprising a plurality of pockets, each of said pockets comprising at least one false eyelash to be dispensed, and said eyelashes being configured in said pockets such that distal ends of each false eyelash is directed towards the dispensing pivot with the distal end of said false eyelash being exposed from said pocket, the take-up wheel receives spent tape after each false eyelash is dispensed at the dispensing pivot, the carrier tape extending from a first side of the supply roll, through a first run to the dispensing pivot, around the dispensing pivot such that the distal end of the eyelash is exposed for application, through a second run to said take-up wheel, and a dispensing actuator wheel is provided to drive rotation of the supply wheel, an actuator protruding from an opening in an upper portion of said casing.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said actuator wheel and said take-up wheel each comprise a circumferential cogging, said respective cogging engaging with one another to facilitate said actuator wheel and said take-up wheel moving in concert.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the actuator is a wheel which is coaxially coupled to said supply wheel.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said apparatus comprises false eyelashes of various lengths.

5. An apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein said false eyelashes are comprised in a predetermined ratio of short, medium, and long false eyelashes.

Assignees

• Elc Man Llc
• Elc Man Llc

Inventors

• Martins Agostinho
• Curtiss Charles Aaron

Classifications

• B65D83/0864

  the articles being pushed and slid through the aperture · CPC title

• B65D35/22

  with two or more compartments · CPC title

• B65D83/0888

  with provision for used articles · CPC title

• A41G5/02 Primary

  Artificial eyelashes; Artificial eyebrows · CPC title

• B65D83/775

  Containers comprising an internal rotating wing for expelling the contents · CPC title