Patent ID: 7082970
Filing Date: 2006-08-01
Classification: A45D,B01F,B65B,G07F

Abstract:
1. A custom cosmetic dispensing system, the dispensing system including: a plurality of containers having cosmetic ingredients and being in fluid communications with nozzles radially disposed about an axis; one or more actuators mechanism adapted to displace the cosmetic ingredients from the container to the nozzles; a motor-driven translatable structure rotatable about the axis and adapted to form an alignment between the nozzles and a dispensing site; a computer controlling the rotation of the motor-driven translatable structure so as to form the alignment between one or more nozzles and the dispensing site, the computer further controlling the one or more actuators for dispensing the cosmetic ingredients through the nozzles during alignment with the dispensing site; a user interface for selecting a customized cosmetic based upon a combination of one or more of the cosmetic ingredients, wherein upon selection of the customized cosmetic the computer forms the alignment between one or more nozzles and the dispensing site and dispenses cosmetic ingredients into a package to form a customized cosmetic formulation, and wherein the computer stores information about the customized cosmetic formulation on a medium for subsequent retrieval by an individual.