Overfolded sterile glove dispensers

Details Overfolded sterile glove dispensers Overfolded sterile glove dispensers

1997-03-01

1998-10-06

Noland, Kenneth

Article dispensing

Concurrent separation and distortion of flexible article

With casing or support

206438, A47K 1024

Patent

active

058164405

ABSTRACT:
Containers for sterile gloves having long cuffs folding over the palms, leaving the fingers exposed beyond, are disclosed such that, upon opening, only the crease of each long cuff/palm overfold can be manually grasped. In one preferred embodiment, sterile containers initially covered with removable film are designed with single openings covered by slit film to dispense multiple surgical or examination gloves. Inside the containers, the overfolded cuffs of successive gloves are folded under the flexed fingers of the first and every succeeding glove, such that the user can serially extract externally sterile gloves by grasping the crease of each long cuff/palm overfold. One bare hand grasps the crease to glove the other. Then, the ungloved hand grasps the crease of the next glove, such that the fingers of the gloved hand can be inserted under the cuff/palm overfold to glove the bare hand. As results, the external surfaces of each extracted glove are never touched by a bare finger or any other contaminated object before use on a patient. Such containers can dispense specified numbers of examination or surgical gloves. In another embodiment, multiple pairs of surgical or examination gloves, each pair with thumbs apposed toward the palms, can be dispensed with the palms touching in separate sterile envelopes, each of which unseals to expose only the creases of the cuff overfolds. Such sterile envelopes can be boxed separately or in rolls from which each package is easily separated.

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patent: 4997105 (1991-03-01), Fischer
patent: 5044494 (1991-09-01), Tamura
patent: 5065863 (1991-11-01), Moyet-Ortiz

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