US1157376A

US1157376A - Door-holder.

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Publication number: US1157376A
Authority: US
Inventors: Emile Franckaerts
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-07-09
Filing date: 1915-07-09
Publication date: 1915-10-19
Anticipated expiration: 1932-10-19

Description

E. FRANCKAERTS.

DOOR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 9.1915.

Patented Oct. 19, 1915.

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To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that'I, EMILE FRANCKAERTS, a citizen of the United States, and; a resident of San Francisco, in'the county of San Francisco and State of California, have made an Improvement in Door-Holders, of

which the following is a specification.

My present-invention is an improvement upon the door-holder, for which I have received Letters Patent No.1- 1100475, dated June 16, 1914. In that case the holder could be used only on the outside of the door, but, by the means I have effected, which are very simple in character, the shoe or stop member proper is reversible, and the holder is adapted for use on either the inside or the outside of the door. When used on the inside, the stop member being reversed, the doorholder proper is supported upon a skeleton base which spaces it from the door, so that the stop member will not come in contact therewith.

The details of construction, arrangement, and operation are as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of the complete invention applied to a door, a portion being broken out to show an interior arrangement. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the complete door-holder, includ ing the skeleton base. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the skeleton base or back plate constituting a support for the door-holder proper. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the lower portion of the door-holder, showing a reversible shoefor stop member arranged in the manner required when the door-holder as a whole is applied to the outside of the door.

In the drawing, A indicates the main or outer casing of the door-holder, B the smaller or auxiliary casing, which is slidable in the other, C the shoe or stop member, and D the skeleton base support for the doorholder proper. metal. The shoe C has a tapered shank which is pivoted to, and extends into, the lower end ofthe inner, slidable casing B. The said shoe or stop member has a rubber block, secured in a dove-tailed socket by a transverse screw.

A rod 1 extends from the flanged head of the inner casing B down through plates or transverse partitions 23 which are fixed v in the main casing A. A spiral spring 4 Theseparts are formed of Specification of Letters Patent. Patentgd 0 1;, 19, 1915. Application filed July 9,1915. Serial No. 38,869.

"hold the stop member projected downward to the required extent. By pressing downward upon the projecting end of the plate 6, the lower spring 5 is compressed and the rod 1 will slide upward through such locking member 6 and carry with it the inner casing B, together with the shoe C.

For any further details that may be deemed desirable in reference to the locking and trip mechanism, reference may be made to the description and drawing of my patent above referred to.

In the original there was no adaptation for reversal of the shoe or stop member, and therefore, the door-holder could only be used on, the outside of a door, the spiral spring 7 (see Fig. 4) being in that case arranged on the left of the shank of the shoe C so as to throw the rubber block inward toward the door. As shown in said Fig. 4, the ends of the spring 7 are held in a socket 9 in the slidable casing B, and in a corresponding socket in the shank of the shoe C. For securing it to the shank a screw 8 is preferably employed, it being arranged as shown in Fig. 4. In theopposite side of the slidable casing B is another socket 9 and when it 1s desired to use the door-holder on the inside of the door, it is reversed from the position shown in Fig. 4 to that shown in Figs. 1. and 2, and in such case the outer end of the spring 7 enters the socket 9, as will be readily understood. When the door-holder is thus reversed from the position in Fig. 4 to that in Figs. 1 and 2, it is necessary to employ the skeleton base D in order to space the metal portion of the shoe C from the door. As shown in Fig. 3, the base B is provided with three screw-holes, to receive screws by which it and the door-holder proper are secured one upon the other and to the face of a door.

By the-adaptation of the shoe for reversal,

as. described, and by the provision of a skeleas occasicn requires, which is often a matter of convenience and much importance.

I c1aim: H 1. The improved reversible door-holder, comprising amain casingadapted to be fixed imposition, a spring-actuated smaller easing adapted to slide in said main casing, means for locking and tripping the inner casing, a shoe or stop member pivoted in the lower end of the inner casing and its shank projecting upward into the 1atter,-a spring secured tos'aid shank,the inner casing having atdiametrically opposite points) sockets for receiring the free end of said spring, Where'- by the shoe is adapted for reversal, asidescribed.

V V 2; The improved reversible door-holder act iated inner'casing, means for locking and tri ing thelat'ter, a reversible shoeor stop member pivoted 1n the lower end of the cas-' 'lngancl its shank provided Witha'springattachment adapted for engagement with either side of the inner easing,and a skeleton S base upon which the door-holder proper is secured, said baseserving to space'the'shoe -Witnesses: A e

Copies of this patent may lie obtained forfiveents each. by id'dressingthe Commissioner of Patents.

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