Installation comprising a glove box and a glove change device incorporating monitoring of the glove change

An installation comprising:

• at least one glove box configured to isolate a volume in relation to an external environment comprising walls delimiting a closed box, at least one glove port carried out in one of the walls, said glove port comprising a box ring integral with the wall and delimiting a passage wherein a device is intended to be sealingly mounted, said box ring being provided with a first radio frequency identification chip, said RFID chip comprising information on said box ring;
• at least two gloves including a new glove and a used glove, the at least two gloves each being provided with an RFID chip;
• a glove change device comprising a body intended to receive the new glove, a mechanism able to apply a thrust force on the new glove in such a way as to provoke its setting into place in the glove port in place of the used glove, an RFID reader provided with at least one antenna intended to communicate with the RFID chips carried by the at least two gloves and by the box ring of the glove box, and an electronic board connected to the RFID reader for storing the information received from said RFID chips;
• the used glove being configured to be put into place in the glove port of the glove box and having a glove ring bearing a flexible portion intended to receive the hand of an operator, the used glove being in place in the glove port, said glove box and the new glove being configured to be put into place in the glove change device for the purposes of replacing the used glove;
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• a computer configured to gather and process the information read by the RFID reader and temporarily stored in the electronic board wherein the computer and the electronic board are configured to communicate with each other.