Device to promote hand sanitization
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1. A device for promoting hand sanitization, the device comprising:
- an assembly used to move a door, the assembly comprising;
a pull handle having perforations on a surface;
a pump coupled to the pull handle; and
a sanitizing agent dispenser, coupled to the assembly, wherein, upon manipulation of the assembly to move the door, a sanitizing agent is simultaneously released though the perforations on the surface of the pull handle onto a hand of a user, wherein the assembly comprises a spring support affixed to the pull handle, a spring, and a spring plate coupled to the pull handle, the spring biasing the pull handle in an inward position and wherein pulling the pull handle outward applies force against the biasing and causes the pump to pump the sanitizing agent, the biasing returning the pull handle to the inward position upon release of the pull handle.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate to a device to promote hand sanitization, such as a device that includes an assembly used to move a door coupled to a sanitizing agent dispenser such that the dispenser releases sanitizing agent upon manipulation of the assembly to move the door onto the hand of a user and may include a latch that is coupled to the door for latching the door.
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14 Claims
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1. A device for promoting hand sanitization, the device comprising:
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an assembly used to move a door, the assembly comprising; a pull handle having perforations on a surface; a pump coupled to the pull handle; and a sanitizing agent dispenser, coupled to the assembly, wherein, upon manipulation of the assembly to move the door, a sanitizing agent is simultaneously released though the perforations on the surface of the pull handle onto a hand of a user, wherein the assembly comprises a spring support affixed to the pull handle, a spring, and a spring plate coupled to the pull handle, the spring biasing the pull handle in an inward position and wherein pulling the pull handle outward applies force against the biasing and causes the pump to pump the sanitizing agent, the biasing returning the pull handle to the inward position upon release of the pull handle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus for dispensing a sanitizing agent onto at least one hand of a user comprising:
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a door; a latching assembly, coupled to the door, comprising a C-shaped pull handle having perforations; and a sanitizing agent dispenser, coupled to the latching assembly and the C-shaped pull handle for dispensing the sanitizing agent through the perforations of the C-shaped pull handle simultaneously onto the at least one hand of the user when the pull handle is pulled and the latching assembly is manipulated to open the door, wherein the latching assembly including a biasing means comprising a spring support affixed to the pull handle, a spring, and a spring plate coupled to the pull handle, the spring biasing the pull handle in an inward position and wherein pulling the pull handle outward applies force against the biasing and causes the dispenser to dispense the sanitizing agent, the biasing returning the pull handle to the inward position upon release of the pull handle.
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