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.
Claims22
A shoe cover cartridge, comprising:
- a plurality of shoe covers overlapped with each other in a sequential manner that said shoe cover at the outermost position is arranged to be 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 which 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 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 arranged for being pulled, said subsequent shoe cover is pulled by said standby shoe cover, so as to dispense said shoe covers one-by-one in a sequential order.
The shoe cover cartridge, as recited in claim 3, wherein said second interlocking hole of said standby shoe cover is arranged for being passed through the guiding arm before said first interlocking hole of said subsequent shoe cover is arranged for being passed through the guiding arm.
A method of manufacturing a shoe cover cartridge, comprising the steps of:
- (a) overlappedly stacking a plurality of shoe covers with each other in a sequential manner that said shoe cover at the outermost position is arranged to be 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) configuring said front interlocking unit at said subsequent shoe cover to be 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 one-by-one in a sequential order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.