Package dispenser for plurality of gloves

• US 5,456,354 A
• Filed: 04/19/1994
• Issued: 10/10/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ait Tite Industries, Inc., Innovative Medical Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Air TITE Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Wood, Frederick
• Primary Examiner(s): Gehman, Bryon P.
• Application Number:
  US08/229,639
• Time in Patent Office: 539 Days
• Field of Search: 206/69, 206/278, 206/281, 206/438, 206/524.8, 223/111
• US Class Current: 206/278
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 25/904 for gloves glove hooks A47G25/92
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/40 Packages or dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/50 Devices for putting-on or removing
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 6/005 Packages or dispensers for contraceptive devices

Abstract

A package dispenser for garments, such as latex surgical gloves is provided with an inner glove shape, which constricts the palms of a plurality of expandable, elastic gloves placed within each other, and forces the fingers of the gloves to expand and conform to a proper expanded position for insertion therein of the hand of a user into the innermost exposed glove of the plurality of gloves. The package sequentially dispenses one or more elastic expandable gloves, such as latex gloves. When a vacuum is drawn, the gloves are maintained in an open, expanded state, wherein the user loosely inserts a hand into the innermost glove of the plurality of gloves, breaks an air seal by pulling a tab, thus allowing air to leak in around the innermost glove, so that the glove snaps over the hand of the user in a tight fitting manner.

Claims

1. A package dispenser for the dispensing of garments made of an elastic, expandable material for wear upon a body part, each of said garments having a distal closed end and a collar at an open end for insertion of the body part therein, wherein a vacuum is drawn from the elastic expandable material around the body part in order to expand the elastic expandable material in an open position for insertion of the body part therein to obtain an external protection over the body part, said package dispenser comprising:

a container, said container having a housing, said housing having a cavity therein, said cavity of said container having therein a plurality of the said garments, all but the outermost garment being fitted inside of another of said plurality of garments;

said container having an open end, collar of each of said garments being wrapped around said open end of said container, said plurality of garments covering said open end of said container;

said plurality of garments being wrapped in a predetermined pattern so that the innermost garment is exposed to said open end of said container, and the next subsequent garments of said plurality of garments being wrapped around said innermost garment;

said outermost garment covering said next subsequent garments and said innermost garment; and

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said container having an outside layer and an inelastic, gas-impermeable inside layer, said inelastic, gas-impermeable inside layer having a geometric shape conforming to a geometric shape of said outermost garment, wherein a vacuum is applied between said outermost garment and said inelastic gas-impermeable inside layer of said container for expansion of said plurality of garments in an open position against said inelastic, gas-impermeable inner layer in an expanded position for insertion of the body part therein upon release of the vacuum against said innermost garment, said innermost garment being collapsible onto the body part.

2. The package for dispensing of garments as in claim 1, further comprising said container having two accesses, one access in said open end of said container for an insertion of the body part therein and another access in said distal closed end for evacuation of air therefrom.

3. The package for the dispensing of garments as in claim 1, further comprising said inelastic, gas-impermeable inner layer of said container being in the shape of a glove.

4. The package for the dispensing of garments as in claim 1, wherein said garments are a plurality of condoms, and said inelastic, gas-impermeable inner-layer of said container being in the shape of a condom.

5. The condom dispensing package dispenser as in claim 4, further comprising at least one leak-proof layer positioned in between two adjacent condoms of each of said condoms of said plurality of condoms.

6. The package for the dispensing of garments as in claim 1, further comprising said container having a movable releasing means for producing the displacement of said innermost garment from said container.

7. The package as in claim 6, wherein said releasing means of said container includes a thin continuous ribbon.

8. The package as in claim 6, wherein said releasing means of said container is annular.

9. The package as in claim 6, wherein said releasing means of said container includes a tubular plastic cover including a wasted area line cut spiraling around said container.

10. The package dispenser for dispensing of garments as in claim 1, wherein a user dons a said garment sequentially from said vacuum packed container, said container having a means for constricting a palm portion of said innermost garment and for forcing finger portions of said innermost garment to expand and conform to the proper position to allow easy donning, said means comprising said inelastic, gas-impermeable inner layer of said container being glove-shaped.

11. The package as in claim 10, further comprising a neck collar at said open end of said container, said collar being tapered inward.

12. The package as in claim 10, further comprising a neck collar at said open end of said container, said collar being flared outward.

13. The package as in claim 1, wherein said container includes an inside portion shaped like a large glove and an outside portion having a predetermined shape.

14. The package as in claim 1, further comprising said package having an exterior portion in a predetermined shape and an interior portion in a shape of a flexible non-elastic large glove.

15. The package as in claim 1, wherein said package includes a flattened exterior portion and said package includes a flexible non-elastic interior portion in a shape of a large glove.

16. The package as in claim 1, wherein said garments in said package are stored in a relaxed shape, so that when said container is opened for use, said vacuum applied in said package causes said garments to expand.

17. A package for sequentially dispensing an innermost glove upon a hand of a user from a plurality of gloves placed inside each other, each of said gloves has five finger portions wherein a vacuum holds said innermost glove of said plurality of gloves intact in an open expanded position for insertion of a hand therein, said package comprising a glove-shaped container, said container having a plurality of individual finger portions so that said five finger portions of said innermost glove can remain expanded to allow the hand of the user to be loosely inserted therein, said innermost glove having a cuff, said cuff of said innermost glove being stretchable over an open end of said container, said innermost glove being inside another subsequent glove of said plurality of gloves, wherein a releasing means is provided for producing a space between said innermost glove and said another subsequent glove.

18. The package as in claim 17 being mountable upon a wall, said package having a mateable fastener mateable with a mounting means to mount said container upon the wall.

19. A package for dispensing of garments for wear upon a body part, each of said garments having a distal closed end and an open end for insertion of the body part therein, said package comprising:

a container housing having an inner cavity, said inner cavity having therein a plurality of the said garments disposed one inside of another and an outermost garment, each of said garments having a predetermined geometric shape;

said container having an inner shaped layer conforming to the predetermined geometric shape of the outermost garment;

said garments being in a predetermined pattern so that the innermost garment is exposed to said open end of said container, and the remaining garments being disposed around said innermost garment;

said garments being tapered from each said open end of each of said garments toward each said distal closed end of each of said garments; and

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a release tab responsive to releasing said innermost garment from said plurality of garments upon pulling of said tab.

20. The package as in claim 19, wherein said inner layer has holes in it to release trapped air.