Adhesive Glove Pack Structure for Hygienic One-by-One Dispensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing disposable glove packs do not facilitate easy and efficient removal of individual gloves while maintaining hygiene and preventing contamination.
Innovation Solution
A stack of disposable gloves with exterior gripping surfaces that adhere to each other, combined with a glove package design featuring a tab and opening mechanism that allows the top glove to pull the next glove partially out, ensuring easy removal and maintaining hygiene.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If gloves are stacked in a package without adhesion, then package simplicity is maintained, but glove removal efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary adhesion mechanism between adjacent gloves in the stack. The exterior gripping surface of each glove adheres to the exterior gripping surface of the next glove, creating a controlled connection that enables efficient removal. This intermediary adhesion layer solves the contradiction by providing both connectivity for efficient removal and maintainability of package simplicity.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If gloves are removed without adhesion to next glove, then package integrity is maintained, but hygiene and contamination prevention deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-adhering the exterior gripping surface of each glove to the next glove in the stack before removal. This pre-established connection ensures that when a glove is removed, the next glove is already positioned to move with it, preventing direct hand contact with the package interior and maintaining hygiene. The adhesion mechanism is prepared in advance to solve both contamination prevention and ease of operation.
3Productivity
If multiple gloves are removed simultaneously, then removal speed increases, but direct hand contact and contamination risk increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by designing the glove stack so that each glove automatically moves with the previous glove during removal due to the adhesion between their exterior gripping surfaces. This self-moving mechanism eliminates the need for direct hand contact with multiple gloves simultaneously, reducing contamination risk while maintaining high removal speed. The system serves itself by using the adhesion force to automatically position and move gloves without additional manual intervention.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Facilitates easy and hygienic removal of individual gloves by allowing the next glove to move with the top glove, reducing the need for direct hand contact and maintaining package integrity.
Implementation Method 1
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
Data Source
AI summary
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.