Glove pack and a method of making a glove pack

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12497231-B2
Application number	US-202318532152-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 7, 2023
Priority date	Aug 19, 2021
Publication date	Dec 16, 2025
Grant date	Dec 16, 2025

Abstract

Systems and methods of making a glove pack and for removing gloves from the glove pack are disclosed. The glove pack includes a stack of gloves. The stack of gloves includes a first glove engaging a second glove. The first and second gloves each have an exterior gripping surface. Each exterior gripping surface of the first and second gloves engages and adheres to the exterior gripping surface of the other of the first or second glove in the stack of gloves thereby adhering the first and second gloves together in the stack of gloves such that when the first glove is removed from the stack of gloves at least a portion of the second glove moves with the first glove.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A glove pack comprising:
a stack of gloves including a first glove engaging a second glove, the first and second gloves each having an exterior gripping surface and an interior surface, the exterior gripping surface having a large coefficient of friction that is greater than a coefficient of friction of the interior surface or a high surface energy that is greater than a surface energy of the interior surface, each exterior gripping surface of the first and second gloves engaging and adhering to the exterior gripping surface of the other of the first or second glove in the stack of gloves thereby adhering the first and second gloves together in the stack of gloves such that when the first glove is removed from the stack of gloves at least a portion of the second glove moves with the first glove; wherein the stack of gloves is compressed at a location on the first glove from a mouth of the first glove toward finger portions of the first glove that is within the inclusive range of about 0.15 times a thumb gap distance to about 0.5 times the thumb gap distance, wherein the thumb gap distance is measured between a gap point between an index finger portion and a thumb portion of the first glove and the mouth of the first glove, the finger portions of the first glove including the index finger portion and the thumb portion, wherein the gap point is the location on a perimeter of the first glove between the index finger portion and the thumb portion of the first glove that is closest to the mouth of the first glove, and wherein the thumb gap distance is the shortest distance between the gap point and the mouth.

2 . The glove pack of claim 1 , wherein the coefficient of friction is less than about 0.3 or the surface energy is less than about 38 dyne/cm for each interior surface of the first and second gloves.

3 . The glove pack of claim 1 , wherein the first and second gloves comprise polyolefin.

4 . The glove pack of claim 1 , wherein the adhesion of the exterior gripping surfaces of the first and second gloves is adjacent mouths of the respective first and second gloves such that when the first glove is removed from the stack of gloves the mouth of the second glove is at least partially opened.

5 . The glove pack of claim 1 , wherein the stack of gloves is compressed such that the first and second gloves are adhered together.

6 . The glove pack of claim 1 , wherein the first glove includes one or more impressions engaging the second glove to facilitate the adhesion of the exterior gripping surfaces of the first and second gloves.

7 . The glove pack of claim 1 , wherein each exterior gripping surface of the first and second gloves has the large coefficient of friction, the large coefficient of friction of each exterior gripping surface of the first and second gloves being equal to or greater than about 0.3.

8 . The glove pack of claim 1 , wherein each exterior gripping surface of the first and second gloves has the high surface energy, the high surface energy of each exterior gripping surface of the first and second gloves being equal to or greater than about 38 dyne/cm.

9 . The glove pack of claim 8 , wherein each exterior gripping surface of the first and second gloves is a corona treated surface.

10 . The glove pack of claim 1 , further comprising a glove package defining an interior, the stack of gloves disposed within the interior of the glove package, the glove package configured to restrict the movement of the second glove when the first glove is removed from the glove package.

11 . The glove pack of claim 10 , wherein the glove package includes a tab positioned to engage the second glove to restrict the movement of the second glove when the first glove is removed from the glove package, the tab arranged to extend into a mouth of the second glove when the first glove is removed from the glove package to hold the mouth of the second glove at least partially open once the first glove is removed from the stack of gloves.

12 . A method of providing a plurality of gloves, the method comprising:
forming the plurality of gloves, each glove having an exterior gripping surface, wherein forming the plurality of gloves includes at least one of making the exterior gripping surface of each glove out of a material having a large coefficient of friction or treating the exterior gripping surface of each glove to have a high surface energy; arranging the plurality of gloves in a stack of gloves such that the exterior gripping surfaces of adjacent gloves of the plurality of gloves engage and adhere to each other thereby adhering said adjacent gloves of the plurality of gloves together; compressing the plurality of gloves in the stack together at a location on each glove from a mouth of each glove toward finger portions of each glove that is within the inclusive range of about 0.15 times a thumb gap distance to about 0.5 times the thumb gap distance, wherein the thumb gap distance for each glove is measured between a gap point between an index finger portion and a thumb portion of said respective glove and the mouth of said respective glove, said finger portions for each respective glove including the index finger portion and the thumb portion of said respective glove, wherein the gap point for each glove is the location on a perimeter of said respective glove between the index finger portion and the thumb portion of said respective glove closest to the mouth of said respective glove, and wherein the thumb gap distance of each glove is the shortest distance between the gap point of said respective glove and the mouth of said respective glove; placing the stack of gloves in a glove package.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the plurality of gloves includes adjacent first and second gloves adhered to each other by the exterior griping surfaces of the first and second gloves so that when the first glove of the plurality of gloves is removed from the glove package and the stack of gloves, at least a portion of the second glove is removed with the first glove.

14 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising providing a retainer on the package to retain the second glove from being removed from the glove package when the first glove is being removed, the retainer extending into a mouth of the second glove to hold the mouth of the second glove at least partially open.

Assignees

• Inteplast Group Corp

Inventors

• Tseng Pai-Mei
• Hsu Chih Jen
• Li Jyh-Yao Raphael
• Yang Kelvin

Classifications

• A61B42/40 Primary

  Packages or dispensers · CPC title

• B65D83/0805

  through an aperture in a wall · CPC title

• B65D83/0835 Primary

  the articles being pulled out of the container · CPC title