Glove or bag winder designed to be used with a closed chamber glove box

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10766152-B2
Application number	US-201715634564-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 27, 2017
Priority date	Jul 5, 2016
Publication date	Sep 8, 2020
Grant date	Sep 8, 2020

Abstract

A winder includes an attachment to an external portion of a glove port fitted on a closed vacuum chamber, to roll a glove or a bag carried by the glove port outside the chamber.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A winder comprising:
a roller with an attachment to an external portion of a glove port fitted on a closed vacuum chamber or a panel, wherein said glove port is fitted, to roll a glove or a bag carried by said glove port outside said chamber,
wherein the roller is carried by a spindle, and
wherein the attachment is formed by two attachment cleats by tightening of the external portion of the glove port, one end of the spindle passing through each cleat pressed in contact with one end of the roller by a nut screwed to an end of the spindle.

2. The winder according to claim 1 , wherein one of the cleats is rigidly fixed to one end of the spindle.

3. The winder according to claim 1 , wherein one of the nuts is a butterfly nut.

4. The winder according to claim 1 , wherein the roller comprises a blocking slit into which one end of a glove or bag fits before winding.

5. The winder according to claim 1 , comprising an arm that folds down along the roller to clamp one end of a glove or a bag in contact with said roller so that it is blocked in place before winding.

6. The winder according to claim 1 , wherein the attachment is arranged to be permanently fixed to the glove port or to a panel on which said glove port is fixed.

7. A glove port that will be fitted on a glove box panel delimiting a closed chamber, to be fitted with a glove for the manipulation of elements in the chamber or a bag to extract elements from said chamber, said glove port being fitted with a winder according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Commissariat Energie Atomique

Inventors

• Parrenin Cedric

Classifications

• G21F7/04

  Shielded glove-boxes (glove-boxes in general B25J21/02) · CPC title

• B25J21/02 Primary

  Glove-boxes, i.e. chambers in which manipulations are performed by the human hands in gloves built into the chamber walls {(glove- boxes for removal of dirt B08B15/026; glove-boxes shielded against radiation G21F7/04)}; Gloves therefor · CPC title

• G21F7/053

  Glove mounting means · CPC title

• G21F7/047

  Shielded passages; Closing or transferring means between glove-boxes · CPC title