Patent ID: 9730504
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: A45D,A46B

Claim:
1. A cosmetic applicator, comprising: a rod-shaped core and a plurality of injection-molded fingers; wherein the core has a circumference surface and a non-round cross-section; the circumference surface is composed of large and small side surfaces arranged in alternating fashion; all of the large side surfaces are the same size as one another and all of the small side surfaces are the same size as one another; wherein a set of fingers on the small side surfaces comprises plates and a set of fingers on the large side surfaces is composed exclusively of bristles; and wherein the set of fingers on the small side surfaces is composed of at least three rows of fingers situated one after another in a line extending in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the applicator; a middle row of these fingers is composed exclusively of bristles and two outer rows are rows in which bristles and plates alternate in the direction extending along the longitudinal axis of the applicator, so that a bristle is always followed by a plate and vice versa, continuing in the direction of the longitudinal axis.