Patent ID: 8584686
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: A45D,A46B

Abstract:
1. A foam applicator product, comprising a pad with separation lines that define contours of a plurality of abutting pairs of cosmetic applicators and contours of a plurality of wedges, neighboring ones of the abutting pairs of cosmetic applicators being separated from each other by a respective one of the wedges whose contour that faces the neighboring ones of the abutting pairs of the cosmetic applicators complements contours of the neighboring ones of the abutting pairs of the cosmetic applicators and face the respective wedge, each of the cosmetic applicators having a respective body defined by a stem and a head that are adjacent each other, the head having elongated applicator tips that are spaced apart from each other and extend away from the stem to terminate at distal ends, the stem having stem sidewalls that converge away from the head to terminate at a proximate end, the proximal end having a width across that is shorter than a width across the head, the proximal end of the stem of associated ones of the abutting pairs of the cosmetic applicators abutting each other, the wedges each having opposite wedge ends between which extend opposite wedge sidewalls, the opposite wedge sidewalls diverging outwardly from each of the opposite wedge ends, each of the cosmetic applicators being made of closed cell nonwoven material that tends to cling across the separation lines until being manually separated from each other, each of the wedges having a length that spans between the wedge ends and that is longer than individual ones of the stems that neighbor the wedges, each of the cosmetic applicators being deformable under manual force from a relaxed, non-tensioned state to a deformed, tensioned state and being configured because of the memory to resiliently return to the relaxed, non-tensioned state from the deformed, tensioned state once the manual force is removed.