Dispenser for providing hygienic protection of hands when using a fuel pump
OwnerOliver Yeoinventor
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Abstract
When filling a vehicle with fuel, a person must touch and hold the dispenser nozzle by the handle 11, squeezing the trigger lever 13. This handle 11 is contaminated by fuel vapour, residue, bacteria, dirt and contaminants by previous usage of multiple persons touching and holding the handle 11 with contaminated hands. The present invention relates to a protective material dispenser 101 with protective material 103 therein, which is releasably couplable to such a fuel gun 2. In this way, a user may easily retrieve some of the protective material 103 from the dispenser 101 prior to touching the fuel pump hand grip 11, and then cover the hand grip 11 to protect his/her hands from making direct contact therewith.
Claims8
A protective material dispenser for use with a fuel pump of the kind comprising:
- a hose for conveying fuel therein, the hose terminating at a nozzle for insertion into a vehicle's filling inlet;
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- a hand grip provided adjacent to the nozzle for manual positioning of the nozzle into the vehicle's filling inlet;
- the protective material dispenser comprising:
- a first coupling configured to be removably securable in a first respective manner to the nozzle, the first coupling provided with a first housing attachment part;
- a second coupling configured to be removably securable in a second respective manner to the hand grip, the second coupling provided with a second housing attachment part;
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- a housing for receiving protective material therein, the housing comprising:
- an opening through which at least some of the protective material is removable;
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- a single attachment mechanism configured to optionally cooperatively engage with either the first housing attachment part of the first coupling or the second housing attachment part of the second coupling, such that the housing is removably securable to each of the first coupling and the second coupling;
- such that the housing may be secured via the first coupling, removed therefrom and re-secured to the hand grip via the second coupling.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.