Dry box glove retaining means

• US 3,323,846 A
• Filed: 03/25/1965
• Issued: 06/06/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lawrence O. Boddy
• Original Assignee: Lawrence O. Boddy
• Inventors: Boddy, Lawrence O.
• Application Number:
  US04/442,836
• Time in Patent Office: 803 Days
• US Class Current: 312/1
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 21/02 Glove-boxes, i.e. chambers in which manipulations are performed by the human hands in gloves built into the chamber walls glove- boxes for removal of dirt B08B15/026; glove-boxes shielded against radiation G21F7/04; Gloves therefor

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION WITH A DRY BOX HAVING A RING DEFINING A GLOVE OPENING AND A GLOVE SLEEVE PORTION WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE RING AND ABUTTING AT ITS OUTER PERIPHERY AGAINST AN INNER PERIPHERY OF SAID RING, AN ENDLESS SELF-SUPPORTING GLOVE RETAINING AND SEALING BAND WITHIN SAID SLEEVE PORTION FOR ABUTTING AGAINST THE INNER PERIPHERY THEREOF AND MAINTAINING SAID SLEEVE PORTION IN FIRM ENGAGEMENT AGAINST SAID INNER PERIPHERY OF THE RING, SAID ENDLESS BAND BEING OF FLEXIBLE READILY INWARDLY DEFORMABLE PLASTIC MATERIAL AND HAVING SPACED APART MARGINAL EDGES SEPARATED BY A RELATIVELY WIDE OUTER SURFACE CONTACTING AND SEALING SAID SLEEVE PORTION OVER A CORRESPONDINGLY WIDE AREA AND HAVING AT SAID OUTER SURFACE FACING TOWARD SAID GLOVE AT LEAST A PAIR OF OPPOSITELY DISPOSED SLOPING PORTIONS OF GRADUALLY REDUCING THICKNESS EXTENDING TOWARD EACH OTHER FROM LOCATIONS COMMUNICATING WITH SAID MARGINAL EDGES AND TERMINATING AT LOCATIONS SPACED APART FROM EACH OTHER WITH SAID SLOPING PORTIONS TOGETHER OCCUPYING A DISTANCE NOT GREATER THAN HALF THE DISTANCE ACROSS THE BAND, SAID OUTER SURFACE INTERMEDIATE THE TERMINATING LOCATIONS OF SAID SLOPING PORTIONS PROVIDING THROUGHOUT THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE ENDLESS BAND A SMOOTH SEALING SURFACE OF WIDTH NOT LESS THAN HALF THE DISTANCE ACROSS THE BAND, SAID BAND BEING SMOOTH AND UNINTERRUPTED THROUGHOUT ITS ENTIRE INNER CIRCUMFERENCE.