Gloves and holding rack therefor

• US 4,228,935 A
• Filed: 01/11/1978
• Issued: 10/21/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert M. Madray
• Original Assignee: Robert M. Madray
• Inventors: Madray, Robert M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rimrodt, Louis
• Application Number:
  US05/868,509
• Time in Patent Office: 1,014 Days
• Field of Search: 223/111, 2/168, 2/161 R
• US Class Current: 223/111
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 25/904 for gloves glove hooks A47G25/92
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/00 Surgical gloves; Finger-stalls specially adapted for surgery; Devices for handling or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/50 Devices for putting-on or removing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 2/901 Antibacterial, antitoxin, or clean room

Abstract

Gloves subject to contamination are handled and retained on a holding rack by first mechanically engaging and retaining the gloves in an aperture provided in the rack, restraining the wrist portion of the glove for movement in the direction of movement of a hand being inserted into the glove, and also restraining the wrist portion of the glove relative to the rack for movement in the direction of movement of a hand being withdrawn from the glove so as to permit the hand to be removed from the glove without turning the glove inside-out.

Claims

1. A glove and holding rack comprising in combination;

(a) A support provided with a planar bottom wall having a free edge;

(b) said free edge having at least one aperture shaped for receiving the wrist portion of a glove;

(c) a pair of substantially paralled, spaced side walls extending perpendicularly and codirectionally from the bottom wall;

(d) a back wall extending perpendicularly from the bottom wall and co-directionally with and extending between the side walls; and

(e) a top removable mounted on the side walls and the back wall, whereby a glove having a pair of spaced, substantially parallel retaining collars, each in the form of a solid toroid, may be receivable in the aperture provided in the support, with one of the collars being arrangeable above the support for restraining the glove against movement relative to the support when a hand in being put into the glove, and the other of the collars being arrangeable beneath the support for restraining the glove against movement relative to the support when a hand is being removed from the glove.