Patent ID: 6923589

Claim:
An apparatus for distributing and safely housing lipstick, said apparatus comprising: a lipstick casing, said lipstick casing further comprising: a top cap having at top portion and a lower portion, said top cap having an attachment attached to said top portion of said top cap and a top cap threading located at said lower portion of said top cap, an O-ring having tapered ends connected to said attachment, said attachment having a small drilled indentation on each side with a retainer wall in the middle, wherein said tapered ends of said O-ring securely clamped into said indentations and said retainer wall serves to stop said O-ring from spinning, a hollow body having a front opening and a back opening, said front opening having a threading upper for connecting to said top cap threading, said back opening having a threading lower, said body also having a retainer lip formed inside said back opening of said body, said retainer lip having a larger inner diameter at said back opening, a step portion and an inner smaller diameter extending from said step portion toward the front opening, and an end cap having end cap threading for connecting said end cap to said threading lower of said top cap; an assembled refilling cartridge further comprising: a plastic cup that holds a lipstick product, said cup having cup divots, a s-cut sheath having s-cuts down both sides parallel to each other, said s-cuts allow the cup divots to slide up and down on a lock axis, said s-cut sheath also having a s-cut sheath lip located at the top of said s-cut sheath, a spiral cut sheath slides over said s-cut sheath and stops at the top of said s-cut sheath by said s-cut sheath lip, and a cartridge end cap having a lip that is friction fit into said retainer lip of said body, wherein said plastic cup, said s-cut sheath, said spiral cut sheath and said cartridge end cap are assembled into the fully assembled refill cartridge; wherein when the fully assembled refill cartridge is inserted into said back opening of said body of the lipstick casing, said lip of said cartridge end cap is snug fit against said retainer lip of said body and thus, prevent the assembled refill cartridge and said cartridge end cap from sliding further upward, wherein upon attaching the end cap to the back opening of the body, said end cap further pushes the cartridge end cap against said retainer lip of said body and locks the cartridge end cap in place, and thereby allowing the user to raise the lipstick product up and down by spinning said spiral cut sheath which protrudes outwardly from said front opening of said body, wherein said body and said end cap provide the slip free grip and housing protection for said full assembled refilled cartridge and allow the user to use the fully assembled refill cartridge without removing the refill cartridge from the lipstick casing.