Method of bundling and dispensing personal protective equipment and apparatus for dispensing bundled personal protective equipment
AssigneeStar Ppe LLC
InventorAndrew Jackson
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Abstract
A method of bundling and dispensing personal protective equipment (PPE) and a dispenser for dispensing the bundled PPE involves the steps of assembling PPE bundles based on PPE component size and type, vacuum sealing the bundles to create planar, flattened packets with a predetermined and uniform shape and size, grouping the packets according to size and component contents, and dispensing the packets in dispensers that keep each packet group separated in one or more dispensers allowing for a single packet to be dispensed.
Claims18
A method of bundling and dispensing personal protective equipment for dispensing by a dispenser, the method comprising the steps of:
- selecting personal protective equipment components based on size and type;
- bundling the selected personal protective equipment components according to the selected personal protective equipment component size and type;
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- vacuum sealing the bundled personal protective equipment components to form individual personal protective equipment packets with a predetermined uniform size and shape;
- wherein the size of the personal protective equipment components include small, medium, large, and single sizes;
- wherein the type of personal protective equipment components includes masks, gloves, head coverings, gowns, and shoe coverings;
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- wherein the type of personal protective equipment components includes disposable, reusable, or both disposable and reusable components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.