Hands Free Door Handle Attachment

Hands free 3d printed door openers to help against the spread of coronavirus.

Hands free door handle attachment.

Materialise created a 3d printed door attachment that only needs to be screwed around a door handle to give people the ability to open a door with their forearm instead of a hand. Hands free foot operated door opener allows you to enter businesses or exit rooms hands free. We built this product to allow schools businesses and public buildings to create a safe environment for the people they serve. Architectural designers ivo tedbury and freddie hong have created a 3d printed device that adapts door handles for hands free opening in a bid to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.

A simple cost effective attachment that allows doors to be opened hands free. Door handles spread germs. Mark hess of hess industries at 108 sawyer parkway and his team have created a new way for doors to open without passing the germs from one s hands on to the door handle s surface. Our hands free door handle attachment is printed using our industrial grade 3d printers and can be attached to any door handle.

A simple cost effective attachment that allows doors to be opened hands free. Hands free door knob by adapta design studio adapta has created a device that allows people to open common round door knobs using an arm or. Avoid germs anodized and powder coated to last on exterior and interior doors. Protect your employees and customers from surface born germs like covid on your front door.

It s an easy quick fix crutchfield says of the hands free door handle attachments noting that the design also doesn t require a lot of testing or rigorous safety production measures. The device is also notable for being printed with thermochromic pigments meaning that when someone s hand comes into contact with the hands free door opener attachment it. The design was rapidly conceptualized prototyped and printed as part of materialise s efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus during the current pandemic. Since we stand behind our mission to build a better and healthier world we re sharing a free design file for a 3d printed door opener that can be operated with elbows instead of hands to avoid spreading the coronavirus covid 19.

Easy to install in under 5 minutes. It s a hands free door handle attachment hess said.