Glove pack and a method of making a glove pack
AssigneeInteplast Group Corporation
InventorsPai-Mei Tseng, Chih Jen Hsu, Jyh-Yao Raphael Li, Kelvin Yang
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Abstract
Systems and methods of making a glove pack and for removing gloves from the glove pack are disclosed. The glove pack includes a stack of gloves. The stack of gloves includes a first glove engaging a second glove. The first and second gloves each have an exterior gripping surface. Each exterior gripping surface of the first and second gloves engages and adheres to the exterior gripping surface of the other of the first or second glove in the stack of gloves thereby adhering the first and second gloves together in the stack of gloves such that when the first glove is removed from the stack of gloves at least a portion of the second glove moves with the first glove.
Claims14
A glove pack comprising:
- a stack of gloves including a first glove engaging a second glove, the first and second gloves each having an exterior gripping surface and an interior surface, the exterior gripping surface having a large coefficient of friction that is greater than a coefficient of friction of the interior surface or a high surface energy that is greater than a surface energy of the interior surface, each exterior gripping surface of the first and second gloves engaging and adhering to the exterior gripping surface of the other of the first or second glove in the stack of gloves thereby adhering the first and second gloves together in the stack of gloves such that when the first glove is removed from the stack of gloves at least a portion of the second glove moves with the first glove;
- wherein the stack of gloves is compressed at a location on the first glove from a mouth of the first glove toward finger portions of the first glove that is within the inclusive range of about 0.15 times a thumb gap distance to about 0.5 times the thumb gap distance, wherein the thumb gap distance is measured between a gap point between an index finger portion and a thumb portion of the first glove and the mouth of the first glove, the finger portions of the first glove including the index finger portion and the thumb portion, wherein the gap point is the location on a perimeter of the first glove between the index finger portion and the thumb portion of the first glove that is closest to the mouth of the first glove, and wherein the thumb gap distance is the shortest distance between the gap point and the mouth.
A method of providing a plurality of gloves, the method comprising:
- forming the plurality of gloves, each glove having an exterior gripping surface, wherein forming the plurality of gloves includes at least one of making the exterior gripping surface of each glove out of a material having a large coefficient of friction or treating the exterior gripping surface of each glove to have a high surface energy;
- arranging the plurality of gloves in a stack of gloves such that the exterior gripping surfaces of adjacent gloves of the plurality of gloves engage and adhere to each other thereby adhering said adjacent gloves of the plurality of gloves together;
- compressing the plurality of gloves in the stack together at a location on each glove from a mouth of each glove toward finger portions of each glove that is within the inclusive range of about 0.15 times a thumb gap distance to about 0.5 times the thumb gap distance, wherein the thumb gap distance for each glove is measured between a gap point between an index finger portion and a thumb portion of said respective glove and the mouth of said respective glove, said finger portions for each respective glove including the index finger portion and the thumb portion of said respective glove, wherein the gap point for each glove is the location on a perimeter of said respective glove between the index finger portion and the thumb portion of said respective glove closest to the mouth of said respective glove, and wherein the thumb gap distance of each glove is the shortest distance between the gap point of said respective glove and the mouth of said respective glove;
- placing the stack of gloves in a glove package.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.