Public hand protection system (PHPS)
View Patent ↗A system for mitigating the transmission of infectious threats by providing an easy access to a cloth or mitt attached to a retractable cord to allow the user to grab a doorknob, subway passenger strap or pole without having skin contact with public touched surfaces. A protection cloth and retraction cord are attached to a personal attachment device, which can be worn on a belt, also has a container with sanitation solution that is applied to the protection cloth after use and can also be applied to a person's hands. A second cloth is also used to wipe down surfaces such as seats, knobs, switches, etc. providing a reusable sanitation cloth and refillable sanitation container. The invention will reduce the contact transmission of infectious disease threats in a more convenient method than current traditional methods of disposable cloths or liquids.
1. A method of mitigating the transmission of infectious threats comprising the steps of:
providing a first contact protection cloth attached to a user by an attachment, wherein the first cloth is connected to the attachment through a retractable cord, wherein the first contact protection cloth has a pocket on each face of the cloth configured to receive the user's hand;
providing a second contact protection cloth on said attachment that is removable by the user to reach items that the retractable cord is unable to reach or where the user prefers to use the second contact protection cloth instead of or in addition to the first contact protection cloth;
wherein the user places a hand into one of the pockets and pulls said first contact protection cloth on said retractable cord and places said first contact protection cloth on a publicly touched surface;
wherein the user's hand is protected by the first contact protection cloth from infectious disease threats on the publicly touched surface; and
providing a sanitizing bottle located on said attachment to the user, the sanitizing bottle being configured to apply sanitizing solution to the first and second contact protection cloths, the user's hand and the publicly touched surface; and
the sanitizing bottle has a sprayer configured to spray the first and second contact protection cloths, the user's hand and the publicly touched surface, wherein the user sprays the publicly touched surface in order to clean the publicly touched surface after placing the first contact protection cloth on the publicly touched surface.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the attachment to a person is through a belt.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the attachment to a person is through a belt attachment loop.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the attachment to a person is through a lanyard.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the contact protection cloth is removable for replacement or cleaning.