Patent ID: 9743813
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: A47K

Claim:
1. A wall-mountable hand dryer for drying one side of a user's hands at a time, the dryer having two nozzle sections—one for each hand—which nozzle sections are positioned towards the front of the dryer so that they are spaced away from the wall in use, the nozzle sections each extending to span the width of a user's open hand and being arranged for directing drying air down onto the front or back of said hand as it is inserted lengthwise underneath the nozzle sections from the front of the dryer, wherein the dryer comprises a downwardly pitched continuous straight ramp surface positioned entirely behind each nozzle section on an underside of the hand dryer for guiding the pitch of the user's hands underneath the nozzle sections, and wherein the start of the ramp surface is set back from the nozzle sections a distance in excess of 5 mm and a terminal end of the ramp surface abuts the wall in use.