Package dispenser for plurality of garments

• US 5,584,390 A
• Filed: 07/17/1995
• Issued: 12/17/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Air TITE Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Air TITE Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Wood, Frederick
• Primary Examiner(s): Gehman, Bryon P.
• Application Number:
  US08/503,232
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: 206/69, 206/278, 206/281, 206/438, 206/524.8, 223/111, 2/168
• 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, to obtain external protection over the body part, said package dispenser comprising:

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

said container having an open end, each 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 are wrapped around said innermost garment;

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

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said container having a geometric shape conforming to a geometric shape of said outermost garment, said innermost garment being collapsible onto the body part.

2. The package dispenser 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 dispenser 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.

4. The package dispenser as in claim 3, wherein said releasing means of said container includes a thin continuous ribbon.

5. The package dispenser as in claim 3, wherein said releasing means of said container is annular.

6. The package dispenser as in claim 3, wherein said releasing means of said container includes a tubular plastic cover including a wasted area line cut spiraling around said container.

7. The package dispenser as in claim 1, further comprising a neck collar at said open end of said container, said collar being tapered inward.

8. The package dispenser as in claim 1, further comprising a neck collar at said open end of said container, said collar being flared outward.

9. The package dispenser as in claim 1 wherein said garments are tapered from each said open end of each of said garments toward each said distal closed end of each of said garments.

10. The package dispenser as in claim 1, further comprising an inner layer having holes therein to release trapped air.

11. The package dispenser as in claim 1, wherein said package dispenser includes a flattened exterior portion.

12. The package dispenser as in claim 1 being mountable upon a wall, said package dispenser having a mateable fastener mateable with a mounting means to mount said container upon the wall.

13. The package dispenser as in claim 1 further comprising a vacuum means, said vacuum means drawing a vacuum from said elastic, expandable material of said innermost garment, said vacuum means opening an interior of said innermost garment for insertion of a body part therein.

14. The package dispenser as in claim 13 further comprising said container having an outside layer and an inelastic gas impermeable inside layer, said inelastic gas impermeable layer having a geometric shape conforming to a geometric shape of said outermost garment.

15. The package dispenser as in claim 14 wherein said vacuum is applied between said outermost garment and said inelastic gas impermeable inside layer in an expanded position for insertion of the body part therein, upon release of said vacuum against said innermost garment.

16. The package dispenser as in claim 13, wherein said garments in said package dispenser are stored in a relaxed shape, so that when said container is opened for use, said vacuum applied in said package dispenser causes said garments to expand.

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

18. The package dispenser for dispensing of garments as in claim 13, wherein a user dons said innermost 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.

19. The package dispenser for the dispensing of garments as in claim 1, further comprising said garments being a plurality of gloves.

20. The package dispenser as in claim 19 wherein said gloves are latex gloves.

21. The package dispenser as in claim 19, wherein said container is in the shape of a glove.

22. The package dispenser as in claim 19, further comprising said package having an exterior portion in a predetermined shape of and an interior portion in a shape of a flexible non-elastic large glove.

23. A package dispenser as in claim 19 for sequentially dispensing an innermost glove upon a hand of a user from said plurality of gloves which are placed sequentially inside each other, each of said gloves having five finger portions wherein said 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.

24. The package dispenser for the dispensing of garments as in claim 1, wherein said garments are condoms.

25. The package dispenser as in claim 24 wherein said condoms are latex condoms.

26. The package dispenser as in claim 24, wherein said container is in the shape of a condom.

27. The package dispenser as in claim 24, further comprising at least one leak-proof layer positioned in between two adjacent garments of each of said garments of said plurality of garments.

28. The package dispenser as in claim 27, further comprising said at least one leak-proof layer being a hermetic seal.

29. The package dispenser as in claim 1 further comprising at least one leak-proof layer positioned in between two adjacent garments of each of said garments of said plurality of garments.

30. The package dispenser as in claim 29, further comprising said at least one leak-proof layer being a hermetic seal.