Patent ID: 8307581

Claim:
A door guard to prevent direct touch contact between an individual's hand and a contact surface of a door to which a pushing force is manually applied to cause the door to open, said door guard comprising a plurality of protective coverings lying one above the other in a stack to be retained over said contact surface to establish a germ-free barrier between the individual's hand and said contact surface, successive ones of said plurality of protective coverings being removable from said stack, each of said plurality of protective coverings having a top surface and a bottom surface, the bottom surfaces of said plurality of protective coverings having a layer of adhesive applied thereto by which said plurality of protective coverings are adhesively and detachably bonded to one another to form said stack, and wherein there is a microbicide included with said layer of adhesive, the top surfaces of said plurality of protective coverings from said stack being germ free by means of the contact between the bottom surfaces of said protective coverings containing said mixture of adhesive and microbicide and respective adjacent top surfaces of said protective coverings, such that when a first of said plurality of protective coverings is removed from the stack, the top surface of the next protective covering lying directly below the first protective covering will be germ free so as to establish said germ-free barrier between the individual's hand and the contact surface over which said plurality of protective coverings are retained.