Methods and apparatuses for applying eyelash extensions

US8015980B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Thomas Elliot Rabe · Baltimore, US
• Peter Jonathan Wyatt · Portland, US
• Keri Ann Marsh · Baltimore, US
• Matthew Clair Ehrman · Baltimore, US
• Nancy Taylor Dempsey · Danbury, US
• Megan Mai Morys · Cambridge, GB
• Robert Scadding Moir · Arbury, GB
• Peter Paul Beentje · Rotterdam, NL
• Kate Reeves · Grafton, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 3, 2008
• Grant date: Sep 13, 2011
• Expiry date: Oct 13, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T24/44017
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An applicator for use with an eyelash extension system that has a backbone and a backbone surface. A plurality of eyelash extensions are attached to the backbone. The applicator has a closure having a closure surface facing the backbone surface, and a pair of clips, each clip including a first arm, a second arm, and a pivot attached to the first arm and the second arm. A first holder is attached to each of the first arms to releasably attach the backbone to the first arms. Further there is a second holder attached to each of the second arms to releasably attach the closure to the second arms. The first and second arms are moveable between a first state wherein the first and second arms are spaced relative to each other and a second state wherein the first and second arms abut each other.