Patent Application
20180170661
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The disclosure and prior art relates to glove drying devices and more particularly pertains to a new glove drying device for holding a plurality of products as well as providing mounts for holding gloves and drying the same.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a housing that has a bottom wall and a perimeter wall that is attached to and extends upwardly therefrom. Each of a pair of posts is attached to and extends upwardly from the housing. The posts each have a bottom end and a top end. A pair of glove engagement members is provided. Each of the top ends has one of the glove engagement members attached thereto. The glove engagement members include five protruding members. Each of the protruding members is extendable into one of a plurality of finger sleeves.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A pair of posts 28 is provided. Each of the posts 28 is attached to and extends upwardly from the housing 12. Each of the posts 28 has a bottom end 30 and a top end 32. A pair of receivers 34 is attached to the housing 12 and each of the bottom ends 30 are threadably coupled to one of the receivers 34. Each of the first 22 and second 24 side walls has one of the receivers 34 positioned adjacent thereto.
A pair of glove engagement members 36 is provided and each of the top ends 32 has one of the glove engagement members 36 attached thereto. Each of the glove engagement members 36 includes five protruding members 38 in a general hand shape. The protruding members 36 are configured to be extended into one of a plurality of finger sleeves 42 of a glove 40. This keeps the finger sleeves 42 separated from each other to facilitate drying of the finger sleeves 42. The posts 28, receivers 34 and glove engagement members 36 may have a combined height of between 8.0 inches and 14.0 inches. The glove engagement members 36 may be removable from the posts 28 and each may be positioned within the housing when not in use.
In use, cleaning or hand care products are positionable in the housing 12. Gloves 40, used for covering the hands while they are being treated or used to protect a person's hands while cleaning, are positionable on the glove engagement members 36. The gloves 40 may be cloth or rubber gloves that are cleaned after usage and placed on the glove engagement members 36 to dry after cleaning. The housing 12 may include small containers, cups, or trays and the like for holding variously sized articles.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
