Automatic Shoe Cover Dispenser with Shoe Cover Cartridge
AssigneeOTO Industry (Wuhan) Co., Ltd.
InventorLiang Jie Xu
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Abstract
A shoe cover cartridge includes two guiding arms and a plurality of shoe covers overlapped in a sequential manner to define a standby shoe cover and a subsequent shoe cover. Front and rear interlocking units are provided at front and rear sides of each of the shoe cover respectively and are slidably engaged with the guiding arms at a position that the front interlocking unit at the subsequent shoe cover is located in front of the rear interlocking unit at the standby shoe cover along the guiding arms. Therefore, when the standby shoe cover is pulled for dispensing, the subsequent shoe cover is pulled by the standby shoe to dispense the shoe covers in a sequential order.
Claims40
A shoe cover cartridge for an automatic shoe cover dispenser which has a cartridge cavity and a shoe disposing opening, comprising:
- a guiding unit for detachably receiving in said shoe cover dispenser;
- a plurality of shoe covers overlapped with each other in a sequential manner that one of said shoe covers is pulled into an open-up condition as a standby shoe cover and a subsequent shoe cover followed by said standby shoe cover;
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- an interlocking arrangement for detachably coupling said shoe covers at said guiding unit, wherein said interlocking arrangement comprises a front interlocking unit provided at a front side of each of said shoe covers, and a rear interlocking unit provided at a rear side of each of said shoe covers, wherein said front and rear interlocking units are slidably engaged with said guiding unit at a position that said front interlocking unit at said subsequent shoe cover is located in front of said rear interlocking unit at said standby shoe cover, such that when said standby shoe cover is pulled to said shoe disposing opening, said subsequent shoe cover is pulled by said standby shoe cover from said cartridge cavity, so as to dispense said shoe covers in a sequential order.
A method of manufacturing a shoe cover cartridge for an automatic shoe cover dispenser, comprising the steps of:
- (a) overlappedly stacking a plurality of shoe covers with each other in a sequential manner that one of said shoe covers is pulled into an open-up condition as a standby shoe cover and a subsequent shoe cover followed by said standby shoe cover;
- (b) providing a front interlocking unit at a front side of each of said shoe covers and a rear interlocking unit at a rear side of each of said shoe covers;
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- (c) slidably engaging said front and rear interlocking units with at least a guiding arm at a position that said front interlocking unit at said subsequent shoe cover is located in front of said rear interlocking unit at said standby shoe cover, such that when said standby shoe cover is pulled for dispensing, said subsequent shoe cover is pulled by said standby shoe cover, so as to dispense said shoe covers in a sequential order.
An automatic shoe cover dispenser for dispensing shoe cover to be worn on a shoe of a user, comprising:
- a dispenser system having a cartridge cavity and a shoe disposing opening, and defining a dispensing direction from said cartridge cavity to said shoe disposing opening;
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- a shoe cover cartridge replaceably disposed in said cartridge cavity, wherein said shoe cover cartridge comprises:
- a guiding unit which comprises two spaced apart elongated guiding arms;
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- a plurality of shoe covers overlapped with each other in a sequential manner that one of said shoe covers is pulled into an open-up condition as a standby shoe cover and a subsequent shoe cover followed by said standby shoe cover, wherein each of said shoe covers comprises a cover body having a cover opening defined at a top peripheral edge, a front interlocking unit provided at a front side of said cover body, and a rear interlocking unit provided at a rear side of said cover body, wherein said front and rear interlocking units are slidably engaged with said guiding arms at a position that said front interlocking unit at said subsequent shoe cover is located in front of said rear interlocking unit at said standby shoe cover along said guiding arms, such that when said standby shoe cover is pulled to said shoe disposing opening at said dispensing direction, said subsequent shoe cover is pulled by said standby shoe cover from said cartridge cavity, so as to dispense said shoe covers in a sequential order;
- thereby, said shoe cover is worn on the shoe of the user by:
- loading said shoe cover cartridge in a cartridge cavity;
- pulling said standby shoe cover from said cartridge cavity of said dispenser system to a shoe disposing opening thereof for enabling the shoe of the user to dispose in said standby shoe cover through said cover opening;
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- automatically pulling said subsequent shoe cover by said standby shoe cover after said standby shoe cover is dispensed, so as to dispense said shoe covers in a sequential order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.