Patent ID: 7311462

Claim:
A device for packaging and applying a cosmetic product, the device comprising: i) a container including a reservoir portion designed to contain the product, which is in fluid communication with a seating which is molded with the reservoir portion, said seating containing a spherical ball mounted freely in rotation inside the seating, wherein the reservoir portion is separated from the seating by a constriction zone, wherein an applicator portion of the ball emerges outwardly from the container through an opening formed by an edge of said seating, wherein the seating includes an inner surface with at least two annular sealing zones and an annular zone between the two annular sealing zones formed on said inner surface, and ii) a cap which covers the applicator portion of the ball, wherein when the cap is in a mounted position on the container, the cap presses the ball in a leaktight manner against the at least two annular sealing zones formed on the inner surface of the seating, and wherein the annular zone of said inner surface located between the two sealing zones is not in contact with the ball when the ball is bearing in a leaktight manner against the two annular sealing zones.