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US 9,957,125 B2Granted
Sanitary automatic glove dispensing apparatus and method of use
OwnerIlya Rayinventor
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Abstract
A sanitary automatic glove dispensing apparatus and method of use. The automatic sanitary glove dispensing apparatus, based on one or more received dispensing events, dispenses pairs of connected protective gloves stored on a roll of protective gloves and overlapped in a pre-determined pattern, by both cuff ends so both finger ends of the protective gloves are not contaminated during dispensing. After a pair of protective gloves are dispensed by both cuff ends, no additional protective gloves are exposed from the apparatus until another protective glove dispensing event is received, thereby protecting remaining protective gloves in the apparatus from contamination by noroviruses and bacteria from a surrounding environment and from other users of the apparatus.
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A sanitary automatic glove dispensing apparatus comprising:
- a protective case;
- an integrated electronic circuit including an interface port and one or more processors connected to at least one power supply and configured for automatically dispensing protective gloves by cuff ends;
- one or more infrared (IR) sensors connected to the electronic circuit;
- one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) connected to the electronic circuit and activated by the one or more infrared IR sensors for visually indicating one or more operational states of the apparatus;
- one or more rolls of protective gloves including a plurality of individual protective gloves connected with a connector and rolled in a glove roll rack in an overlap pattern such that each of protective gloves is dispensed by the cuff ends avoiding contaminating the finger surfaces, the glove roll rack including a rack circuit connected to the integrated electronic circuit and an electronic motor connected to the at least one power supply for moving the roll to dispense the protective gloves completely by the cuff ends without exposing another protective glove;
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- one or more application programs comprising a plurality of instructions in the non-transitory computer readable medium for causing the one or more processors to configure via the interface port a detection field size and a detection field orientation for the one or more infrared (IR) sensors, one or more timings for automatically dispensing protective gloves after first dispensing event is detected and to collect and transmit dispensing information.
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A method for sanitary automatic protective glove dispensing comprising:
- providing a sanitary automatic dispensing apparatus configured for automatically dispensing protective gloves rolled into one or more rolls in an overlap pattern such that the protective gloves are dispensed by the cuff ends avoiding contaminating the finger surfaces;
- receiving a first input signal from one or more infrared (IR) sensors connected to an electronic circuit in the sanitary automatic dispensing apparatus, the one or more infrared IR sensors including one more detection fields of one or more sizes and one or more detection orientations, the first input signal indicating detection of a first protective-glove dispensing event;
- sending a plurality of electrical signals from the electronic circuit to a rack circuit on a glove roll rack to move the glove roll with an electric motor a plurality of times for:
- automatically advancing a roll of protective gloves a first distance to expose a first protective glove by a first cuff end to a user;
- automatically advancing the roll of protective gloves a second distance to fully dispense the first protective glove by the first cuff end to the user without exposing a second cuff end of a second protective glove stored in the roll adjacent the first glove, thereby protecting the remaining protective gloves on the roll from contamination,
- wherein the plurality of electrical signals are generated automatically based on one or more timings without receiving any additional protective-glove dispensing events or generated based on receiving one or more additional protective-glove dispensing events detected by the one or more IR sensors.
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A method for sanitary automatic protective glove dispensing, comprising:
- providing a sanitary automatic dispensing apparatus configured for automatically dispensing protective gloves rolled into one or more rolls in an overlap pattern such that the protective gloves are dispensed by the cuff ends avoiding contaminating the finger surfaces;
- receiving a first input signal from one or more infrared (IR) sensors connected to an electronic circuit in the sanitary automatic dispensing apparatus, the one or more infrared IR sensors including one more detection fields of one or more sizes and one or more detection orientations, the first input signal indicating detection of a first protective glove dispensing event;
- sending one or more electrical signals from the electronic circuit to a rack circuit on a glove roll rack with additional components comprising a mechanical ratchet mechanism, to move a roll of protective gloves in the glove roll rack with an electric motor to automatically advance the roll of protective gloves a first distance to expose a first protective glove by a first cuff end to a user, the electrical signals being generated automatically based on one or more timings without receiving any additional protective-glove dispensing events or generated based on receiving one or more additional protective-glove dispensing events detected by the one or more IR sensors,
- receiving a first mechanical force generated by the user on the glove roll rack to mechanically advance the roll of protective gloves a second distance to fully dispense the first protective glove by the first cuff end to the user;
- receiving a second mechanical force generated by the user on the glove roll rack to advance the roll of protective gloves a third distance to expose a second protective glove by a second cuff end to the user;
- receiving a third mechanical force generated by the user to advance the roll of protective gloves a fourth distance to fully dispense the second protective glove by the second cuff end to the user, wherein the fourth distance fully dispenses the second protective glove without exposing another cuff end of another pair of protective gloves stored on the roll of protective gloves outside the apparatus thereby protecting the remaining pairs of protective gloves on the roll of protective of protective gloves from contamination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.