Patent ID: 7914221

Claim:
Applicator ( 1 ) for a fluid or pasty cosmetic product having an axial direction ( 10 ) and comprising an axial rod ( 2 ) fixedly connected at a bottom end ( 20 ), to an application means ( 3 ) provided with a means for retaining said cosmetic product, and at a top end ( 21 ), to a means ( 4 ) for manually gripping said applicator ( 1 ), characterized in that: a) said axial rod ( 2 ) is a co-axial rod ( 2 ′) comprising a central rod ( 22 ) and an external sheath ( 23 ), said central rod ( 22 ) comprising a rod portion ( 220 ) that is coaxial to said external sheath ( 23 ) and a free rod portion ( 221 ) which is not covered by said external sheath ( 23 ), b) said application means ( 3 ) comprises a plurality of N axial members ( 30 ) providing therebetween an inner space that can be loaded with a cosmetic product, wherein N varies from 2 to 8, said axial members ( 30 ) being fixedly connected, at their upper ends ( 300 ), to the bottom end ( 230 ) of said external sheath ( 23 ), and at their lower ends ( 301 ), to the bottom end ( 222 ) of said free rod portion ( 221 ), c) said manual gripping means ( 4 ) comprises a fixed gripping part ( 40 ) and a knob ( 41 ) that is rotatably fixedly connected to said central rod ( 22 ), a manual rotation of said knob ( 41 ) by an angle α with respect to said fixed gripping part ( 40 ) leading to a relative rotation of said lower ends ( 301 ) of said axial members ( 30 ) with respect to said upper ends ( 300 ), in a manner to constitute a twist, and allowing a modification of the volume of said inner space and thus of a quantity of said cosmetic product held by said application means ( 3 ).