Device for dispensing protective gloves

Abstract

A device for dispensing gloves used to protect from germs and the like has a housing forming a substantially vertically extending inner chamber and configured for accommodating a stack of packages each containing gloves, a rotatable transporting element having one portion extending outwardly of the housing to be activated by a user and another portion extending inwardly into the housing such that when a stack of packages with gloves is introduced into the inner chamber it rests on the transporting element, a dispensing window providing in the housing, so that when the transporting member is turned by a user a lower most one of the packages with gloves is transported by the transporting element from the inner chamber of the housing through the dispensing opening outwardly.

1 . A device for dispensing gloves used to protect from germs and the like, comprising a housing forming a substantially vertically extending inner chamber and configured for accommodating a stack of packages each containing gloves; a rotatable transporting element having one portion extending outwardly of the housing to be activated by a user and another portion extending inwardly into said housing such that when the stack of packages with gloves is introduced into said inner chamber it rests on said transporting element; a dispensing window provided in said housing, so that when said transporting element is turned by a user a lowermost one of the packages with gloves is transported by said transporting element from said inner chamber of said housing through said dispensing opening outwardly. 
   
   
       2 . A device as defined in  claim 1 , wherein said inner chamber is subdivided into two subchambers each accommodating a stack of the packages with gloves; said transporting element extending into one of said subchambers; and further comprising a second transporting element extending into the other of said subchambers, said dispensing window being provided in a region of said one subchamber; and a second dispensing window provided in a region of the other of said other subchamber, so that by activating said first transporting member or said second transporting member the packages from said one subchamber and the packages from said other subchamber are dispensable through said first window and through said second window correspondingly. 
   
   
       3 . A device as defined in  claim 2 ; and further comprising means for subdividing said inner chamber into said two subchambers and including a separating wall, each of said transporting members having a supporting end rotatably supported in said separating wall. 
   
   
       4 . A device as defined in  claim 1 ; and further comprising an additional partition which is insertable substantially vertically in said inner chamber and movable transversely so as to change a transverse cross-section of said inner chamber to bring it in correspondence with a transverse size of the packages with gloves. 
   
   
       5 . A device as defined in  claim 1 , wherein said transporting member has a surface which is enhanced for engaging the package with the gloves. 
   
   
       6 . A device as defined in  claim 5 , wherein said enhancing means is configured as a roughened surface of said transporting member. 
   
   
       7 . A device as defined in  claim 5 , wherein said enhancing means include individual strips provided on the surface of said transporting member and having a roughened surface so as to simultaneously improve engagement with the package with gloves and impart a pushing force to it.