Package dispenser for plurality of garments

• US 5,590,764 A
• Filed: 08/14/1995
• Issued: 01/07/1997
• 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:
  US08/514,699
• Time in Patent Office: 512 Days
• Field of Search: 206/69, 206/278, 206/281, 206/524.8, 206/438, 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 a plurality of garments made of an elastic, expandable material 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, 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 said plurality of the garments, each garment except an outermost garment of said plurality of garments being fitted inside of another of said garments;

said container having an open end, said open end 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 from said distal closed end;

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

said garments having an outermost garment enclosing 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 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 said body part.

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

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

4. The package dispenser for the dispensing of garments as in claim 1, wherein said package dispenser is a condom dispensing package dispenser including a plurality of condoms, and wherein said inelastic, gas-impermeable inner-layer of said container is made in the shape of a condom, said package dispenser dispensing an innermost condom of said plurality of condoms therefrom upon a penis.

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

6. 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 the package dispenser.

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

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

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

10. The package dispenser for dispensing of garments as in claim 1, wherein a user dons said at least one garment sequentially from a vacuum packed container having a shape conforming to a shape of said innermost garment, each of said garments further having a palm portion and a plurality of finger portions, said container having a means for constricting said palm portion of said innermost garment and for forcing said 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 dispenser as in claim 10, further comprising a neck collar at said open end of said package dispenser, said collar being tapered inward.

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

13. The package dispenser as in claim 1, further comprising said container having an inside shaped like a large glove and an outside having a predetermined shape.

14. The package dispenser as in claim 1, further comprising said package dispenser having a exterior of a predetermined shape and a flexible non-elastic large glove shaped member inside.

15. The package dispenser as in claim 1, wherein said package dispenser is flattened and said package dispenser has a flexible non-elastic large glove shaped member inside.

16. The package dispenser as in claim 1, wherein said garments in said package dispenser are stored in a relaxed shape, so that when the package dispenser is opened for use, a vacuum in said package dispenser causes a plurality of garments to expand into the proper shape.

17. A container sequentially dispensing an innermost glove from a plurality of gloves placed inside each other, 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 container being glove-shaped package having a plurality of individual finger portions so that the five fingers of said innermost glove can remain expanded to allow the hand of a 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 dispenser as in claim 17 being mountable upon a wall, said container having a mateable fastener mateable with a mounting means upon the wall.

19. A glove-shaped container package dispenser for sequentially dispensing at least one glove of a plurality of gloves, said package dispenser further comprising a plurality of air seals, said plurality of gloves being maintained in an open, sealed expanded state, wherein a user loosely inserts a hand into an innermost glove of said plurality of gloves, a means for breaking an innermost air seal of said plurality of air seals, said means comprising a pull tab, said means allowing air to leak in around said innermost glove of said plurality of gloves, so that the glove snaps over the hand of the user in a tight fitting manner, wherein the remaining gloves of said plurality of gloves stay in an expanded state, so that if a user desires to wear two or more gloves, the user then breaks a next subsequent seal for a next, exposed, innermost glove, whereupon said next innermost glove snaps into place after being released from a next subsequent seal, over the previous first innermost glove upon the hand of the user, said container having an inside being hand-shaped responsive to holding said gloves in an expanded state.

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

a container housing having an inner cavity, said inner cavity having a plurality of garments therein, each of said garments wrapped inside of each other of said garments, each of said garments having a predetermined geometric shape;

said container having an inner shaped layer conforming to said predetermined geometric shape of each of said garments;

said plurality of garments being assembled in a predetermined pattern so that an innermost garment is exposed to said open end of said container, and subsequent garments of said plurality of garments being wrapped 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 tab responsive to releasing said innermost, tapered garment from said plurality of garments upon release of said tab.

21. The package dispenser as in claim 20, wherein said inner layer has holes therein to release trapped air.

22. A package dispenser for dispensing of a plurality of condoms made of an elastic, expandable material for wear upon a body part, each of said condoms of said plurality of condoms having a distal closed end and an open end for insertion of the body part therein, said package dispenser comprising:

a container, said container having a cavity therein, said cavity of said container having therein said plurality of condoms, all but the outermost condom being fitted inside of another of said condoms,

said container having an open end, said open end of each of said condoms being rolled around said open end of said container, said plurality of condoms covering said open end of said container;

said plurality of condoms being wrapped in a predetermined pattern wherein an innermost condom is exposed to said open end of said container, and next condoms of said plurality of condoms are wrapped around said innermost condom;

said plurality of condoms having an outermost condom enclosing said next condoms and said innermost condom;

said innermost condom having an outer sealed layer between said open end of said container and said innermost condom,

each next condom having a further sealed layer,

said further sealed layer having a geometric shape generally conforming to a geometric shape of said outermost condom.

23. The package dispenser as in claim 22, wherein said container is flattened in a closed position and openable to an open expanded position for insertion of the body part therein.

24. The package dispenser for the dispensing of condoms as in claim 22, further comprising said container having a movable releasing means for producing the displacement of said innermost condom from said condoms.

25. The package dispenser as in claim 22 wherein each outer sealed layer and said further sealed layers comprise an impermeable barrier material.

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

a container having an inner cavity, said inner cavity having a plurality of condoms, each said condom wrapped inside of each other of said condoms, each of said condoms having a predetermined geometric shape;

said container having a plurality of sealed layers conforming to said predetermined geometric shape of each of said condoms;

said condoms being in a predetermined pattern wherein an innermost condom is exposed to said open end of said container, a first sealed layer being provided between said innermost condom and said open end of said container, and each next condom of said plurality of condoms is rolled around said innermost condom; and

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a tab responsive to releasing each of said condom from said plurality of condoms upon release of said tab.