Glove donning apparatus

• US 6,419,131 B1
• Filed: 06/28/2001
• Issued: 07/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: James E. Rix
• Original Assignee: James E. Rix
• Inventors: Rix, James E.
• Primary Examiner(s): MOHANTY, BIBHU R
• Application Number:
  US09/893,833
• Time in Patent Office: 383 Days
• Field of Search: 223/111, 223/120, 223/112, 223/113, 223/1
• 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

Abstract

A glove donning apparatus for donning a glove with a single hand, which comprises a pair of upstanding elongated bars supported by rods from a stationary member, wherein the bars are shaped and sized so that the glove may be trained over the bars at the open or cuff end of the glove to thereafter hold the glove in position for insertion of the hand.

Claims

1. A glove donning apparatus comprising:

a pair of substantially vertically extending spaced apart elongated bar-shaped members over which the open end of a glove may be mounted to hold the glove open during insertion of a hand into the glove,

each bar-shaped member including spaced apart ends over which part of the open end of the glove is releasably held in a four corner arrangement,

means for supporting said members on a stationary base,

said supporting means including substantially vertically extending rods, and stabs laterally extending from the rods and to which the bar-shaped members are attached such as to offset the bar-shaped members from the rods, wherein the open end of the glove when mounted on the bar-shaped members extends substantially vertically so that a hand may be inserted into the glove along a substantially horizontal path.

2. The glove donning apparatus of claim 1, wherein said bar-shaped members are generally U-shaped.

3. The glove donning apparatus of claim 2, wherein said bar-shaped members are generally crescent-shaped.

4. The glove donning apparatus of claim 2, wherein said bar-shaped members are generally arcuately shaped.

5. The glove donning apparatus of claim 2, wherein said bar-shaped members are generally polygonally shaped.

6. The glove donning apparatus of claim 2, wherein said bar-shaped members are generally substantially straight.

7. The glove donning apparatus of claim 6, wherein said rods are resilient to allow some resilient movement between the bar-shaped members during the mounting of a glove thereon and the removing of a glove therefrom.

8. The glove donning apparatus of claim 7, wherein the bar-shaped members are attached to the stubs adjacent one end of the bar-shaped members.

9. The glove donning apparatus of claim 8, wherein the bar-shaped members are attached to the stubs adjacent the upper end of the bar-shaped members.

10. The glove donning apparatus of claim 8, wherein the bar-shaped members are attached to the stubs adjacent the lower end of the bar-shaped members.

11. The glove donning apparatus of claim 7, wherein the bar-shaped members are attached to the stubs intermediate the ends of the bar-shaped members.

12. The glove donning apparatus of claim 1, wherein the supporting means and the bar-shaped members are formed by a wire loop with upstanding portions extending upwardly from a stationary base.

13. The glove donning apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bar-shaped members have smooth surfaces.

14. The glove donning apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bar-shaped members have roughened surfaces.

15. A device for holding a rubber glove having a cuff end of said glove during insertion of a hand into the glove comprising:

spaced-apart substantially vertically extending restraining members over which the cuff end of the glove may be mounted to support the glove with the cuff end open so that a hand may be inserted into the glove, and

means supporting the restraining members including upstanding slightly flexible rods extending upwardly from a stationary base such that when a glove is mounted on the restraining members and hangs downwardly therefrom the glove will not touch the supporting members or the base, and

said rods including laterally extending stubs onto which the restraining members are offset mounted from the rods so that the cuff end of the glove will hook over the restraining members and be held in place on the restraining members during insertion of a hand into the glove, whereby the cuff end of the glove extends substantially vertically and hand insertion is along a substantially horizontal path.

16. The device of claim 15, and said restraining members being formed to define a four corner arrangement for receiving the cuff end of the glove.

17. The device of claim 15, wherein the restraining members are formed to be outwardly bowing from each other to provide additional room for a hand to be inserted into a glove.