Glove box

Abstract

A disposable glove dispense and shipping container has a first box and a second box both having dispense apertures disposed therein for dispensing a right hand disposable glove and a left hand disposable glove respectively. The first and second boxes are hingably attached along the first box top and inner surface junction and the second box top and inner surface junction. In the open or dispense position the inner sides of the first box and the second box are both parallel and touching with the top surfaces having the dispense apertures lying flat and side by side for dispensing purposes. In the closed or ship position, the top surface of the first box and the top surface of the second box fold onto one another creating a third box suitable for distribution and shipping.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to a container for disposable gloves in general and more particularly to a single container for shipping and dispensing of disposable gloves having separate compartments for left hand and right hand gloves. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Relatively thin, disposable polyethylene, nitrile, vinyl, latex, or similar gloves have a variety of uses and applications in the present marketplace and have been available for many years. However, of the major drawbacks to expanding the use or availability of such gloves resides in the manner in which they have been packaged for use or distribution to the ultimate user. Given the intended disposable nature of the gloves and the necessity of maintaining a low cost per glove, ambidextrous gloves, or gloves that are neither right nor left handed but work on either, were developed. With ambidextrous gloves, a box contained a large quantity of gloves that were all the same shape, eliminati...

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Problems solved by technology

However, of the major drawbacks to expanding the use or availability of such gloves resides in the manner in which they have been packaged for use or distribution to the ultimate user.

Although this minimized waste and made packaging simple and inexpensive, many found ambidextrous gloves uncomfortable, as a single shape or profile is seldom satisfactory for everyone as well as thumb placement is a problem with ambidextrous gloves.

Ambidextrous gloves do not conform to the natural contours of the reflexive hands.

When ambidextrous gloves are worn for extended periods, they tend to promote fatigue due to the pressures placed on the hand, which are better accommodated by hand specific gloves.

The first described means has been found less than satisfactory because it is very difficult to consistently retrieve only one pair of gloves at a time.

This results in an objectionable percentage of waste as too often a user pulls several gloves out of the box in a single grab resulting in discarding all but the one pair required.

Additionally, when only a left or a right glove is needed, it is likely that a full pair will be taken and therefore one glove is wasted.

The second means is not satisfactory because manufacturing in a paired / rolled configuration is too costly for most high volume disposable applications.

And, as in the stacked pair configuration, when only one glove is needed, an entire pair must be taken from the roll, wasting the unneeded glove.

In addition, with the rights and lefts being in similar but separate boxes, invariably the user ends up with inventory issues such as two boxes of lefts and no rights or vice versa; or, one box of lefts and one box of rights in different sizes.

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