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Device to promote hand sanitization

  • US 9,255,423 B2
  • Filed: 08/08/2014
  • Issued: 02/09/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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