April 8, 1958
D. e. TURCOTTE
2,829,393
COSMETICS AND LOTION APPLICATOR
Filed Aug. 26, 1954
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rosity in this area. This fact is of major importance
because liquid held in the hollow 14 is not able to escape
by the outer portion of the pad, and has to pass through
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COSMETICS
LOTIONAPPLICATOR
portion of the pad 10 located nearer to the center of said
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another one, washed and cleaned. The pad 10 may be
Dorothy G. Turcotte, now by marriage Dorothy G. Meyer,
made in different shape, may comprise an outer hollow
cavity for receiving creamy substance, or may be made
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Application August 26, 1954, Serial No. 452,284
1 Claim.‘ (Cl. 15-131)
pad. The ‘pad 10 may be easily removed, replaced by
from a thin elastic material with plurality of holes. in
10 stead of being made from a spongy porous material. The
frame 10 can be made in several different variants.
Figure 1 illustrates applicatorin which handle 12 is
attached to frame 11 by means of screw 13, screwed into
threaded hole 16. The handle 12 may be unscrewed and
This invention relates to a cosmetics and lotion appli
15 removed and liquid cosmetic introduced through hole 16
cator by means of which the lotions or creams may be
easily applied to any part of the body including the back
of the body. The purpose of my invention is to provide
a cosmetics and lotion applicator consisting substantially
of a frame with an elongated handle, on which a pad of
sponge rubber, foam plastic, or any other porous material
is slipped over, forming a space between said pad and
said frame where liquid cosmetics are held in order to be
applied to the skin of the body by penetrating through
to ?ll the cavity 14. Figure 3 shows an applicator in
which frame 11' is cast from plastic integrally with handle
12’, which simpli?es the manufacturing of it. The liquid
cosmetic may be put into the hollow 14' by removing pad
10', and inserting it again as shown on Figure 3 before
using it. Figures 4 and 5 illustrate a variant of cosmetics
and lotion applicators in which the opening 16” is closed
by a plug 15", which permits ?lling up the cavity 14"
without removing pad 10" or of handle 12", which handle
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said porous pad. Another purpose of my invention is to 25 may be cast from plastic together with frame 11".
provide an opening on the frame of the applicator closed
cidentally, it should be noted that the handle 12" com
by a closure through which liquid cosmetics may be in
_ prises an elongated manually grippable handle connected
troduced into the hollow between the frame of the appli
to and extending from said frame 11'.’ substantially par
cator and the porous pad. A further purpose of my in
allel to a plane passing through the peripheral outer edge
vention is to provide a cosmetic applicator with easily 30 of said frame 11" (which is the near or bottom edge of
interchangeable porous 'pad on which outer surface a
said frame 11" as viewed in Fig. 5). It is understood
creamy cosmetic may be applied to be spread on the skin.
that the preferred embodiment of my invention as de
Still further novel features and advantages of my inven-,
scribed and illustrated, may be altered by a person skilled
tion will become apparent from the following description 35 in the art without departing from the spirit of the present
and accompanying drawings from which:
invention.
Figure l is' a fragmentary longitudinal cross section of
What is claimed is:
the device along the line 2—2 of Figure 2;
A cosmetics and lotion applicator comprising: a frame
Figure 2 is a top plan view of the device;
having a concave front surface de?ning a recess, a convex
Figure 3 is a longitudinal cross-section of a modi?ed 40 back surface and a peripheral outer edge around said
cosmetics and lotion applicator;
Figure 4 is a fragmentary longitudinal cross~section of
the device along the line 3-3 of Figure 5 showing cross
section of porous pad.
‘recess; an easily compressible porous applicator pad of
elastic material having a central body portion and an
engaging edge portion including a surrounding rim, said
applicator frame of Fig. 4 with the porous pad removed.
It should be noted that in the second embodiment of the
present invention illustrated in Figure 3, parts which are
porous pad having a plurality of connecting cells therein
normally providing a plurality of passages therethrough
from back to front thereof and being compressible under
the action of pressure applied to the outer surface of said
central body portion to cause expulsion of liquid cosmetics
similar to those illustrated in the ?rst form of the inven
‘ normally contained in said plurality of cells, the central
Figure 5 is a bottom view of the cosmetics and lotion
tion in Figs. 1 and 2 are indicated by the same reference .
body portion of said compressible porous pad extending
numerals, primed however. It should also be noted that
in Figure 4 and Figure 5 illustrating another embodiment
of the present invention, parts corresponding to those
illustrated in the ?rst species of the present invention
shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2 will be illustrated by the t
same reference numerals, doublyprimed however. The
present cosmetics and lotion applicator consists of a pref
surface of said frame, the engaging edge portion of said
compressible porous pad extending elastically over and
encompassing said peripheral outer edge of said frame,
and said surrounding rim of said compressible porous
pad being convexly positioned on said convex back sur
erably round frame 11 as shown on Figure 2 or of a frame
11" of other shape with rounded corner as shown on Fig
ure 5. The frame 11 has a concave bottom surface, which
forms a hollow 14 between the frame 11 and porous pad
substantially transversely across the recess in the front
face of said frame adjacent to said peripheral outer edge .
of said frame and terminating short of the central portion
of said convex back surface and being retained in said
relationship with respect to said frame under the action
of the elasticity of said porous pad and de?ning a hollow
reservoir including said recess between the front surface
of said frame and the central body portion of said porous
pad cooperable to receive therein a liquid cosmetic and
10. The porous pad 10 is made from sponge rubber,
foam plastic, or any other material having substantial
elastic quality. In order to put the pad 10 over frame 11
it has to be stretched and is held over the edge of said 65 to feed same to the rear surface of the central body por
frame by a contracting force due to the elasticity of the
tion of the compressible porous pad for dispensing said
material from which pad 10 is made. The pad 10 is made
liquid cosmetic through the plurality of connecting cells
substantially in the form of a mushroom with a rim 17 as
in said central body portion, in response to the application
of exterior pressure thereto to the outer surface thereof
shown in Figure 1. When pad 10 is inserted over the
frame 10, rim 17 overlaps the edge of the frame; portion 70 for selective application to a desired object, said engaging
edge portion of said porous pad in elastic engagement
18 of pad directly pressing on the edge of frame 11 is
considerably compressed providing substantial loss of po
with the peripheral outer edge of said frame being so
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stretched by said engagement as to substantially collapse‘
the cells therein thereby rendering‘ said engaging edge
portion of said porous pad substantially non-porous; the
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back surface of said frame being provided with a cir
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loading port; and an elongated manually grippable handle
connected to and extending from said frame substantially 15
parallel to a plane passing through the peripheral outer
edge of the frame.
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