Patent ID: 8091562

Claim:
Applicator for a cosmetic product comprising: a) a prehension means defining a cap for a container adapted to contain said cosmetic product, b) an axial rod, c) means for applying said cosmetic product, said axial rod being unitary with said prehension means at its upper end, and with said applying means at its lower end, in which said applying means comprises: (i) an axial core which is unitary with said axial rod at its lower end, and (ii) a stack of a plurality of N elements E, each element being a molded or machined single piece of material and comprising a central orifice for housing said axial core allowing said axial core to pass therethrough and at least a projection, said stack being axially fixed to said axial core through an axial assembling means, wherein said axial core and said plurality of elements E cooperate with a means for angularly orienting said elements E with respect to said axial rod in a transverse plane perpendicular to said axial rod, so that each element E i of rank i in said stack, wherein i ranges from 1 to N, is unitary in rotation with said axial core and provides a predetermined angular orientation α i with respect to said axial core; wherein each element E i of said stack comprises a central part C, identified C i , which is operatively connected to said axial core, in a manner to define said axial assembling means and said angular orientation means, and a peripheral part P identified as P i adapted for allowing a sampling of a portion of said cosmetic product; wherein at least two elements E of said stack comprise neither a same central part C nor a same peripheral part P.