Patent ID: 7866908

Claim:
An assembly structured to clean a head portion of a stethoscope, said assembly comprising: a housing including an entrance portion and an exit portion and a path of travel for the head portion extending therebetween, said entrance and said exit portions respectively structured to facilitate entry and removal of the head portion relative to a housing interior, a cartridge assembly disposed within said housing and including a fluid supply assembly connected thereto; said fluid supply assembly structured for containment and dispensing of cleaning fluid, an applicator assembly including a base; a plurality of applicator segments connected to said base and extending outwardly therefrom into engaging relation with the head portion moving along said path of travel, said plurality of applicator segments collectively disposed in predetermined array comprising both a lateral and a longitudinal relative spacing of said plurality of applicator segments, said predetermined array configured to apply and at least partially remove the cleaning fluid to and from the head portion, an activating assembly movably disposed into and out of actuating relation to said fluid supply assembly, a dispenser assembly comprising at least two dispenser structures each operatively connected to said fluid supply assembly and disposed in a sufficiently longitudinal offset relation to one another to concurrently direct cleaning fluid to different portions of said path of travel and in communicating relation to said applicator assembly, and said activating assembly structured to activate the dispensing of the cleaning fluid by said dispenser assembly in response to at least said passage of the head portion along said path of travel.