Dispenser Apparatus for Detachable Shoe Covers and Method Thereof
AssigneeOTO Industry (Wuhan) Co., Ltd.
InventorLiang Jie Xu
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Abstract
A dispenser apparatus for a plurality of detachable shoe covers includes a frame, an installation assembly and a separator. The installation assembly is installed on the frame and includes two installation arms for installing the detachable shoe covers, wherein the two installation arms are configured to provide a dispenser arrangement at front end portions of the installation arms for guiding a frontmost detachable shoe cover of the detachable shoe covers installed in the installation assembly to be dispensed to an open state for wearing. The separator is arranged at the front end portions of the installation arms for separating the frontmost detachable shoe cover from the installation arms after being worn on a shoe of a user.
Claims20
A dispenser apparatus for a plurality of detachable shoe covers each of which comprises a shoe cover main body having a receiving cavity, an elastic opening edge portion defining an opening, and an interconnection arrangement, including a front portion of the shoe cover main body, a rear portion of the shoe cover main body, two front joint perforations provided in the front portion, and two rear joint perforations provided in the rear portion, for interconnecting each of the plurality of detachable shoe covers with another adjacent detachable shoe cover of the plurality of detachable shoe covers along the dispenser apparatus so as to be installed in the dispenser apparatus, wherein the dispenser apparatus comprises:
- a frame;
- an installation assembly, which is installed on the frame, comprising two installation arms for installing the plurality of detachable shoe covers by penetrating through the two rear joint perforations and the two front joint perforations of each of the plurality of detachable shoe covers, wherein the two installation arms are configured to provide a dispenser arrangement at parallel front end portions of the two installation arms for guiding a frontmost detachable shoe cover of the plurality of shoe covers installed in the installation assembly to be dispensed to an open state for wearing;
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- a separator comprising two cuter separators arranged at the front end portions of the two installation arms and configured for separating the frontmost detachable shoe cover from the two installation arms, wherein each of the cutter separators has cutting blade facing rearwards.
A dispenser apparatus for a plurality of detachable shoe covers each of which comprises a shoe cover main body having a receiving cavity, an elastic opening edge portion defining an opening, and an interconnection arrangement, including a front portion of the shoe cover main body, a rear portion of the shoe cover main body, two front joint perforations provided in the front portion, and two rear joint perforations provided in the rear portion, for interconnecting each of the plurality of detachable shoe covers with another adjacent detachable shoe cover of the plurality of detachable shoe covers along the dispenser apparatus so as to be installed in the dispenser apparatus, wherein the dispenser apparatus comprises:
- a frame;
- an installation assembly, which is installed on the frame, comprising:
- two installation arms for installing the plurality of detachable shoe covers by penetrating through the two rear joint perforations and the two front joint perforations of each of the plurality of detachable shoe covers, wherein the two installation arms are configured to provide a dispenser arrangement at parallel front end portions of the two installation arms for guiding a frontmost detachable shoe cover of the plurality of shoe covers installed in the installation assembly to be dispensed to an open state for wearing;
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- a rear retaining configuration to limit the rear portion of the frontmost detachable shoe cover to re-stretching back to the installation arrangement;
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- a separator arranged at the front end portions of the two installation arms and configured for separating the frontmost detachable shoe cover from the two installation arms.
A method of dispensing detachable shoe covers installed in a dispenser apparatus, including steps of:
- (a) guiding a plurality of interconnecting detachable shoe covers, which are interconnecting with each other and installed in an installation arrangement of the dispenser apparatus, to move from the installation arrangement to a dispenser arrangement provided at front end portions of two installation arms of the installation assembly of the dispenser apparatus;
- (b) opening a frontmost detachable shoe cover of the plurality of detachable shoe covers at the dispenser arrangement by stretching an elastic element provided around an opening end portion of the frontmost detachable shoe cover to open the opening by a rear retaining arrangement and a front retaining configuration provided in the dispenser arrangement of the installation assembly for wearing the frontmost detachable shoe cover on a shoe of a user placed in a receiving cavity through an opening of the frontmost detachable shoe cover;
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- (c) separating the frontmost detachable shoe cover from a subsequent detachable shoe cover of the plurality of detachable shoe covers, by a separator arranged at the dispenser arrangement of the installation assembly of the dispenser apparatus, under a pulling of the frontmost detachable shoe cover away from the subsequent detachable shoe cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.