Disposable glove and apparatus for applying a glove to a user's hand

摘要

The present invention relates to a package of disposable gloves and to a method and an apparatus which can use the package to enable the gloves to be applied to a user's hands. The gloves are stored in a roll and are unrolled and opened by the apparatus so that a user can hygienically insert their hand into a glove without touching the glove. The user, with their hand in the glove can then sever the glove from the roll of gloves by moving their hand downwardly and away from the apparatus. The apparatus can then unroll and open another glove for the user to insert their other hand.

主权项

1. An apparatus for enabling hygienic location of a glove on a hand, comprising:
a storage for storing a package of disposable gloves, the package being a continuous line of gloves wherein consecutive ones of the gloves are connected together by a respective frangible connection which is breakable to separate one of the gloves from the line; an indexing device for moving the gloves from the storage to a hand insertion station of the apparatus; and a glove opening device for opening a glove of the package so a user can insert his or her hand into the glove at the hand insertion station; wherein the indexing device includes a gripping device comprising a pair of opposed rollers for gripping the line of gloves between the rollers, the indexing device being arranged for movement between the hand insertion station and a line gripping station of the apparatus so that the rollers can move relative to the line of gloves between the hand insertion station and the gripping station, and can grip the line of gloves at the line gripping station so the line of gloves is drawn with the rollers upon return movement of the indexing device from the gripping station to the hand insertion station, and wherein the glove opening device is arranged to move between the hand insertion station and the line gripping station with the indexing device.