Liquid dispensing hair removal kit
View Patent ↗A hair removal kit having a handle, a cover removably engagable to the handle, and a cartridge removably engagable to the handle. The cartridge has at least one blade. A removable dispensing unit is disposed within the handle. The dispensing unit has a pump, an applicator in liquid communication with the pump, and a reservoir having a first position and a second position. The reservoir is in liquid communication with the pump in the second position, but not in liquid communication with the pump in the first position.
1. A hair removal kit comprising:
a handle;
a cover removably engagable to the handle;
a cartridge removably engagable to the handle, the cartridge having at least one blade;
a dispensing unit removable within the handle, the dispensing unit comprising
a pump,
a pump connector coupled to and in liquid communication with the pump;
an applicator in liquid communication with the pump,
a reservoir having a first position and a second position, wherein the reservoir is in liquid communication with the pump in the second position and the reservoir is not in liquid communication with the pump in the first position; and
a reservoir connector having at least an end positioned within the reservoir, wherein mounting the cover to the handle forces the reservoir connector and the pump connector closer together and the reservoir into the second position.
2. The hair removal kit of claim 1 wherein the reservoir is in the second position when the cover is mounted to the handle.
3. The hair removal kit of claim 1 wherein the applicator is removably engagable with the cartridge.
4. The hair removal kit of claim 1 wherein the cover has an actuator button on the same side as the blade.
5. The shaving kit of claim 1 wherein the applicator has an outlet port on the same side as the blade.
6. The hair removal kit of claim 1 wherein the applicator has a plurality of ribs.
7. The hair removal kit of claim 1 wherein the cartridge has an elongated recess parallel to the blade that engages the applicator.
8. The hair removal kit of claim 1 wherein the pump is a resilient tube.
9. The hair removal kit of claim 1 further comprising a personal care bottle removably engageable to the handle, wherein the personal care bottle has an exposed compressible surface for releasing a liquid from the personal care bottle and an opposing surface disposed within the handle.
10. The hair removal kit of claim 9 wherein the personal care bottle has a pair of alignment members that engage a pair of alignment members on the handle.
11. The hair removal kit of claim 1 wherein the handle defines a first cavity dimensioned to receive at least a portion of the dispensing unit.
12. The hair removal kit of claim 11 wherein the handle has a pair of spaced apart walls within the first cavity.
13. The hair removal kit of claim 12 wherein the reservoir connector and the pump connector are positioned between the spaced apart walls.
14. The hair removal kit of claim 13 wherein at least one of the spaced apart walls is vertical.
15. The hair removal kit of claim 14 wherein at least one pair of the spaced apart walls has a tapered surface that slopes toward the other spaced apart wall.
16. The hair removal kit of claim 15 wherein the reservoir connector slides along the tapered surface moving the pump connector and the reservoir connector toward each other to activate the dispensing unit.
17. The hair removal kit of claim 12 wherein the spaces apart walls are segmented.
18. The hair removal kit of claim 12 wherein the reservoir connector and the pump connector each have a shoulder.
19. The hair removal kit of claim 18 wherein the shoulders of the reservoir connector and the pump connector contact each other in the second position.
20. The hair removal kit of claim 18 wherein the shoulders of the reservoir connector and the pump connector are not in direct contact in the second position.