Patent ID: 8146776

Claim:
A hand protection barrier dispenser for dispensing hand protection barriers from a roll of such hand protection barriers each having an opening therein and each connected to a subsequent hand protection barrier by a perforated connection, said hand protection barrier dispenser comprising: a housing in which the roll of hand protection barriers is mounted for dispensing, said housing having an opening through which a hand protection barrier in position to be dispensed is accessible, wherein said housing comprises a housing back upon which the roll of hand protection barriers is located; a dispensing mechanism located in said housing intermediate the roll of hand protection barriers and said opening through which the hand protection barriers pass prior to being in position to be accessible through said opening in said housing, wherein said dispensing mechanism is located upon said housing back; and a donning assist apparatus mounted in said housing that is arranged and configured to assist in opening each of the hand protection barriers as it is moved into position to be accessible through said opening in said housing to facilitate a user inserting the user's hand through the opening in the hand protection barrier to don the hand protection barrier, wherein said donning assist apparatus is located upon said housing back and comprises: a ruffle roller rotatably mounted on said housing back at a location at which an edge of a hand protection barrier moving into position to be accessible through said opening in said housing cover will pass between said ruffle roller and said housing back, said ruffle roller being oriented at an angle with respect to movement of the hand protection barrier moving into position to be accessible through said opening in said housing cover to cause said ruffle roller to push the edge of the hand protection barrier to ruffle it to facilitate the opening of the hand protection barrier; wherein a hand protection barrier donned by a user may be removed from said hand protection barrier dispenser by pulling the hand protection barrier in which the user's hand is located away from a subsequent hand protection barrier to tear the perforated connection therebetween.