Patent ID: 8091559

Claim:
An applicator for applying a hair treatment composition to the hair, wherein said applicator comprises a plate and a well; wherein said plate comprises a perimeter, an internal surface and an external surface; and wherein said well comprises a bottom and a wall, said wall emerging from said bottom and extending upwardly, said wall having a rim and said rim defining an opening and an internal volume of said well; and wherein said plate and said well are movably joined by a connection so that said applicator may alternate between a closed state and an open state, wherein when said applicator is in a closed state, said internal surface of said plate is in a juxtaposed relationship to said opening of said well and wherein when said applicator is in an open state, said internal surface of said plate is in a distal relationship to said opening of said well; wherein said applicator in said closed state has an average distance from said perimeter of said plate to said rim of said wall; wherein said applicator comprises at least one metering layer; wherein said at least one metering layer is selected from a group consisting of non-wovens, foams and combinations thereof; and wherein said at least one metering layer has a compressibility as defined herein of from about 59% to about 93% and a calliper of from about 0.40 mm to about 21.88 mm, wherein the ratio of said at least one metering layer calliper to said average distance is defined by mathematical relationship (I); 4.375× D 1≧Calliper (mm)≧0.792× D 1 (I).