Patent Application
20220061431
A wet wipe, also known as a wet towel or a moist towelette, or a baby wipe in specific circumstances, is a small moistened piece of plastic or cloth that often comes folded and individually wrapped for convenience. Wet wipes are used for cleaning purposes like personal hygiene and household cleaning. Cleansing pads for preventing infection are usually saturated with alcohol and bundled in sterile packages. Hands and instruments may be disinfected with these pads while treating wounds. Disinfecting cleansing pads are often included in first aid kits for this purpose. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
Medical gloves are disposable gloves used during medical examinations and procedures to help prevent cross-contamination between caregivers and patients. Medical gloves are made of different polymers including latex, nitrile rubber, polyvinyl chloride and neoprene; they come unpowdered, or powdered with corn starch to lubricate the gloves, making them easier to put on the hands. Besides medicine, medical gloves are widely used in chemical and biochemical laboratories. Medical gloves offer some basic protection against corrosives and surface contamination. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem either.
There exists a need for a disinfecting glove that is not being met by any known or disclosed device or system of present.
The sanitizing glove is built to not only provide the user with protection from external germs, but to sanitize the touched surfaces by use. On the front of the glove where the wearer's palm and fingers are behind the glove is attached a sanitizing surface akin to a disinfectant wipe. As the wearer of the glove interacts with objects such as handles, knobs, or buttons, the sanitizing liquid of the glove's front cleans the objects touched. This procedure protects not only the glove wearer from germs, but anyone else who interacts with the same objects soon after. Over time, the sanitizing liquid on the front of the glove may begin to dry or run down. It can be refreshed by use of a sanitizing spray.
Throughout the description, similar reference numbers may be used to identify similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
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Embodiments of the method include disinfecting 130 a surface via the finger and thumb portions of the second layer saturated with a disinfectant. Embodiments further include disinfecting 140 a surface via the palm portion of the second layer saturated with a disinfectant. Embodiments yet include bursting 150 an embedded pouch containing a disinfectant solution dispersed onto a top layer of the glove for application through manual actions.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
While the forgoing examples are illustrative of the principles of the present disclosure in one or more particular applications, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous modifications in form, usage and details of implementation can be made without the exercise of inventive faculty, and without departing from the principles and concepts of the invention. Accordingly, it is not intended that the disclosure be limited, except as by the specification and claims set forth herein.
