Assembly for the packaging and application of a varnish-type substance

Claim 1

In an assembly for the packaging and application of a volatile substance or a substance including volatile components, the said assembly comprising: (a) a storage container for enclosing the said substance; (b) a neck to said storage container having a rim; (c) a removable closure device adapted to be assembled on the storage container; (d) an applicator adapted to be fixed to the closure device; (e) a lower part of the applicator adapted to enter the atorage container when the closure device is assembled on the storage container; (f) a leaktight sealing means to ensure the sealing of the storage container when the closure device, with the applicator fixed thereto, is assembled on said storage container; the improvement wherein: (g) the leaktight sealing means comprises a collar integral with the applicator and positioned around an axis that extends through said applicator, said collar abutting the rim of the storage container neck when the closure device is assembled on the storage container and being pressed against that rim by a resilient wall connecting the collar to the closure device, said wall comprising first and second parts, the first part being ajacent to the said collar and capable of being resiliently distorted between the collar and the second part, said second part including first fixing means and the closure device including second fixing means, said first and second fixing means being mutually complementary to fix the closure device to the applicator, and (h) means are provided for ensuring a preselected angular positioning of the closure device on the storage container when said closure device and storage container are assembled together; said second part of the wall connecting the collar to the closure device being sunstantially perpendicular to said collar; said second part of the wall being cylindrical and having a free edge zone, wherein said closure device incorporates a cylindrical liner wall facing said second wall part in the assembled position at least in the edge zone of the second wall part, and wherein holding means are provided on one of said facing wall surfaces of said closure device and the said second part for holding against the other of said facing wall surfaces and for preventing rotation of the applicator relative to said closure device.