Applicator with slanted plate element

Abstract

A mascara applicator comprising a core and a border consisting of fingers and flanks which are integrally connected to the core. The aim of the invention is to provide a mascara applicator that allows different application results. This is achieved in that each of the flanks consists of at least one plate element. Each plate element has two main surfaces and otherwise only narrow surfaces, and the main surfaces are characterized in that each open surface of the main surfaces is at least four times larger than the open surface of each of the narrow surfaces; the main surfaces run diagonally to the applicator longitudinal axis; and the plate elements exhibit an increased geometrical moment of inertia on the basis of the slanted position of the plate elements both in the circumferential direction as well as in a direction parallel to the applicator longitudinal axis such that the plate elements have an increased resistance against bending.

1 . A mascara applicator, comprising:
 a core;   a covering of fingers integrally connected to the core; and   a plurality of wings integrally connected to the core, wherein the wings each consist of at least one plate member, and each plate member has two main surfaces; and otherwise only narrow surfaces, and wherein a free surface area of each of the main surfaces is at least 4 times greater than a free surface area of each of the narrow surfaces, and the main surfaces extend in a slanted manner relative to a longitudinal applicator axis, and the plate members exhibit an increased geometrical moment of inertia both in a circumferential direction as well as in a direction parallel to the longitudinal applicator axis due to their slant, so that the plate members have an increased capacity for resistance against both bending due to a bending moment acting around the longitudinal applicator axis as well as against bending due to a bending moment acting perpendicularly to the longitudinal applicator axis.   
     
     
         2 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the mascara applicator has at least two rows of fingers that wholly extend parallel to the longitudinal applicator axis and are located diametrically opposite from each other on the core. 
     
     
         3 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein a maximum thickness of a plate member perpendicular to its main surfaces is between 0.8 times a maximum finger diameter and 2.5 times the maximum finger diameter. 
     
     
         4 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the covering has at least one row of wings which wholly extends in the direction parallel to the longitudinal applicator axis, which wings are placed one behind the other so as to form a zigzag pattern. 
     
     
         5 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein each wing consists of two plate members that merge into each other along their imaginary end faces and thus form a V-shaped wing. 
     
     
         6 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 5 , wherein the V-shaped wings placed in a row parallel to the longitudinal applicator axis open alternately towards a first and towards a second circumferential direction. 
     
     
         7 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 6 , wherein a gap, whose extent in the direction parallel to the longitudinal applicator axis is at least ⅓ of an extent that a V-shaped wing has in the direction parallel to the longitudinal applicator axis, remains free between two V-shaped wings placed directly adjacent within a row. 
     
     
         8 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein the main surfaces of a plate member do not extend fully parallel relative to each other but are inclined towards each other in a radially outward direction. 
     
     
         9 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 5 , wherein a tip of a V-shaped wing, viewed in the circumferential direction, is located centrally in an intermediate space between two adjacent finger rings that in each case extend circumferentially. 
     
     
         10 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 9 , wherein each of the lateral ends of a V-shaped wing, viewed in the circumferential direction, is located centrally in the intermediate space between two finger rings adjacent to it that in each case extend circumferentially. 
     
     
         11 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein a distance measured in the circumferential direction between two rows of fingers, which are each placed one behind the other in alignment along the longitudinal applicator axis, that accommodate between them a row of V-shaped wings is equal to a distance measured in the circumferential direction between two rows of fingers, which are each placed one behind the other in alignment along the longitudinal applicator axis, that accommodate between them another, identical row of fingers. 
     
     
         12 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein a radial extent of the plate members substantially corresponds to a radial extent of the surrounding fingers. 
     
     
         13 . The mascara applicator according to  claim 1 , wherein a plurality of bases are provided in the shape of strips which extend in a slanted manner relative to the longitudinal applicator axis and which integrally connect directly adjacent plate members, which are separated from each other only by a gap, to each other across the gap.