Patent ID: 8657151
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
1. A hand protection barrier dispenser for dispensing hand protection barriers from a stack of such hand protection barriers each having an opening therein near a top end thereof, said hand protection barrier dispenser comprising: a housing including a receptacle in which the stack of hand protection barriers may be installed for dispensing; an electric blower located in the housing which electric blower has an exhaust opening from which the electric blower blows air when the electric blower is provided with electric power; a switching mechanism which is located in the housing and is connected to a source of electric power, the switching mechanism being configured to provide electric power to the electric blower when the switching mechanism is actuated and to not provide electric power to the electric blower when the switching mechanism is not actuated; at least one nozzle operatively connected to the exhaust opening of the electric blower to receive air blown from the electric blower when the switching mechanism is actuated and to direct the blown air toward the opening in a top one of the hand protection barriers in the stack of hand protection barriers in a manner that opens the top hand protection barrier to facilitate a user inserting the user's hand through the opening in the top hand protection barrier to don the top hand protection barrier; and an electronic system for operating the hand protection barrier dispenser to open the hand protection barrier, wherein the electronic system comprises: wherein the top hand protection barrier donned by a user may be removed from the stack of hand protection barriers by pulling the top hand protection barrier in which the user's hand is located away from the remainder of the stack of hand protection barriers.