US1479398A

US1479398A - Combined door catch and buffer

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Publication number: US1479398A
Application number: US420228A
Authority: US
Inventors: James C Ollard
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1920-10-28
Filing date: 1920-10-28
Publication date: 1924-01-01
Anticipated expiration: 1941-01-01

Description

-- Jan. 1, 1924 1,479,398

Y 3. 0. OLLARD COMBINED DOOR CATCH AND BUFFER Origifial Filed Oct. 28. 1920 Patented Jan. 1, 1924.

COMBINED DOOR CATCH AN'D BUFFER.

Application filed October 28, 1920, Serial No. 420,228.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JAMES C. OLLARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chester, in the county of Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented'new and useful Improvements in Combined Door Catches and Buffers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a combined door catch and buffer. l

One of the annoying features of a Ford car is the necessity for closing the door with a bang. The nature of the door latch compels this excessively noisy closing. The door latch as designed must fit' into an absolutely snug and tight fitting latch cavity and this necessitates the noisy closing of the door.

It is an object of the present invention to previde a combined buffer and door catch designed to cooperate with the door latch of a Ford or other car and adapted to permit the door to be closed slowly and gently and at the same time to be positively and securely fastened.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a simple, practical and eflicient combined door catch durable and inexpensive constructon designed particularly for use on Ford cars, but adapted also to be advantageously employed on various other makes of automobiles and also on all door frames of any make for cushioning a'door and for maintaining the same in tight engagement with the latch or keeper to prevent noise and rattling, while at the same time maintaining the door firmly in locked engagement,

It is also an object of the invention to provide a combined door catch and buffer of this character adapted to be constructed of either pressed steel or similar. material or as a casting and designed for use on stopless door frames where the face or edge of the door frame is, made plain without a rabbet to receive a free portion of the door.

A further object of the invention is to provide a combined door catch and buffer in which, when the same is constructed of pressed steel, the parts maybe securely fastened in assembled relation by a single rivet or similar fastening means and in which the catch or keeper member may be constructed of a drop forging, or other material, and will be arranged to brace-and support the pressed steel portions.

and buffer of strong,

Renewed May 1, 1923. Serial No. 513,552.

With these and other objects in'view, the

UNITED srres PATEN OFFICE;

invention consists in the novel construction,

combination and arrangementof parts hereinafter fully described,'illustrated in the accompanying drawingsand pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being under stood that various changes in the form, roportion, and minor details of construction, within the scope'of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings in which like characters" of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures igure 1 is a side elevation of; a combined 7 doorcatc and buffer embodying the invention and constructed of pressed steel.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same. Figure 3 is a plan view of the combined door catch and buffer.

Figure at is a central, horizontal sectional view of the same.

Figure 5 is a front elevation of a combined door catch and buffer consisting of a casting and shown applied to a door frame,

the latter being in section.

Figure 6 is a plan view of the combined door catch and buffer shown in Figure 5. Figures 7 and 8 are elevations of the same. 7 V

Figure 9 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 99 of Figure 8.

eferring 5 inclusive of the drawings in which the combined door catch and buffer is constructed of pressed steel, a single piece of pressed steel or other suitable material is bent intermediate of its ends to form an end connecting wall 1 and front and rear walls 2 and 3, the rear wall 3 having an outer portion 4 in parallelism with the front wall 2 and an inner portion 5 arranged. at an angle to the parallel portion 4 and extending therefrom to the front wall 2 at the inner portion thereof to form with the said front wall-2 a casing having an outer substantially U-shaped portion and an inner or V-shaped portion. The terminals 6 and 7 of the pressed steel are bent at right angles to the particularly to F igures, 1 to front wall to form attaching portions and i i right angles to the inner wall 2 and a catch or keeper 10'is secured in the anglevby a '13 of a door 14. The catch or single riret ll which also secures theterminal portions 6 and 7 of the pressed steel together and to the catch or keeper. The rivet pierces the said terminal portions and the catch or keeper and its terminals are headed and countersunk; in. the inaterialas clearly shown in Figure 4: of the drawings,

but one or more fastening devices maybe,

any suitable form he used for conthe pressed steel of course employed and of fastening device may nee-ting the terminals of aud tor securing the catcher keeper to the same. 7 r a The catch or keeper which preferably consists'ot a drop 'torging, may be constructee t anyother suitable material 'vided wit-ha lugorprojection 12 rounded and it is proor beveled atthe iront andt'orming-a shoulder at the backfor engaging with the latch keeper 10 presents flat faces to the attaching member and to the inner wall otgthe casing and it braces and-supports the pressed steel at an angle formed by the attaching member and the casing.)

I The latch'13 of the door i l is maintained firmly in engagement with the catch or keeper 10 by; a springpressed door engaging member 15 which is inthetormot a tapered hollow cap. The hollow cap extends through an opening16 in the front wall of the casing and is provided witha stop flange 17" and receives one end of a coiled spring 19. The coiled spring 19 which may be has its other end' tapered or cylindrical seated against the rcar wall 3 which 1S preferably provided with the protuberance 20 formed by indenting the outer portion {4 of its wall- 3 the front of the casing. The door in closing engages its latch with the catchor keeper 10 and presses the doorengaging member 15 inwardly compressing the spr ng 19 and placing the same under sufficient tension to "maintain'thelatch of the door iirmly in engagement with the projecting portion of the catch or keeper-10.

=The device isadaptedtor use'on all kinds of door frames but-is especially adapted for Iford cars and -thetwo ply attaching member is providedwith a plurality of'per'torations-"21 preferablylocated, above and below the catch or keeper as shown in Flgure 1 for the reception of-screws or other suitabletastening devices for secur ng the combined door catch and 'bu'firto; the door frame.

*lnF-iguresbto' Er -inclusive, is illustrated a form of theinvention-in' which th'e'casing 22 en -opening of the .*'front wall and arranged to be "holding the latch 0 and the attaching member Q-Bgare termed of a single casting; The casing, -which is preferably ,lar at the outer endiat 24, is tapered at the rounded or substantially semi-circuinner portion at 25 and is provided at the angle formed by the attaching member and the front wall 26 of the casing with a catch orke'eper 27' bracing and reinforcing the device at the said angle and provided with a projecting lug-'28 for engagement "by the latch :29 of thedoor 30.; ;T he i ront wall 26 is provided with an opening "extends a taperedtliollow door engaging member and actuated -fb' y a 3i through which coiled cushioning spring-33 extending into' hearing at one end the hollow capv and against the same and at'its'other end-against a protnberance 3% oi -the rear wall -The hollow cap 1s provided at itsinner end with 4 a stop flang'e 36toliniit-the outward movement of the door engaging member and the angularly disposed portion of the rear wall shown in the form of the invention illusrated in Figures 1'to4 inclusive is omitted inthe form illustrated =in aFigures5to 9 in- 'clus'ivexto provide an opening 37 for assembling the parts. In the torm ofthe invention shownin Figures-1 to l, the casing is shown and permits 'the rotary assembling cf'the 'door open-atthe top and bottom as engaging member and-the spring. =Tl1e attachingineniber of-the device is provided with perforations 88 for the reception of screws 39 for attachingthe devi'ce'tothe deor'trame. f

It will beQseen-th'at by enlargingthe space or cavity betweenthe inner edge o't'the catch of the buifeirto or keeper and the casin receive the engaging portion of the latch of the door that the door is adapted to be closed slowly and gently without force or sound andflits latchpositively engaged with the catch or keeperi This will eliminate all noise in closlng and the buffer which "sush 1 ons the closing of the door w1ll maintain the latch thereof firmly against the catch or keeper so that there will be 'no noise or rattling resulting from theeenlarging of the latch-receiving cavity. 7

What is claimed 1s: a

'1. A combined door catch and buffer comprising a casi ng composed of innerand outer walls and a connecting'wa-ll' or portion, said casing being provide'dat theinnerwall with an opening and {havingan attaching member arrangedat an angle-to theinneir wall, a

catch' or' keeper located at the said'attachirig member and adapted to be engaged by the catch of a door, and an anchored door member extending through the placed under tension the 'door "for with -the' catch: or keeper. 7

2. A combined dor oatch and-b1ifier .com-

ca '32 form in a a .i a n t the latter in engagement prising a casing composed of inner and outer walls and a connecting wall or portion, said casing being provided at the inner wall with an opening and having an attaching member arranged at an angle to the inner wall, a catch or keeper located at the angle formed by the attaching member and extending along the same from the front wall and provided with a projecting portion adapted to be engaged by the latch of a door, and a cushioned door engaging member extending through the opening of the front wall of the casing. v

3. A combined door catch and buffer comprising a casing having a front opening and provided with a tapered inner portion and having an attaching member extending from the tapered inner portion at right angles thereto, said casing being open at the tapered portion, a catch or keeper located at the attaching member and arranged to be engaged by the latch of a door, and a cushioned door engaging member carried by the casing and arranged to be engaged by the door for holding the latch thereof against the catch or keeper.

4. A combined door keeper and casing comprising a casing constructed of a single piece of metal bent to form an end wall and inner and outer side walls and having its terminal portions fitted together and bent at an angle to the casing to form a two ply attaching portion, a catch or keeper and fastening means piercing the catchor keeper and the terminal portions of the metal of the casing and securing the said parts together.

5. A combined door catch and buffer comprising a casing constructed of a single piece of metal bent to form an end wall and inner and outer side walls and having its terminal portions fitted together and bent at an angle to the casing to form a two ply attaching portion, a catch or keeper fitted in the angle formed b the attaching member and extending albng the latter, a fastening device piercing the catch or keeper and the terminal portions of the metal of the casing said casing being tapered at its inner portion and being open thereat, and a cushioned door engaging member carried by the casing.

6. A combined door catch prising a casing constructed of a single piece of metal bent to form front and rear walls and a connecting end wall,-thelatter being split at opposite sides adjacent the front and rear walls and thesplit portions inwardly against the said front walls, said front and rear walls having-re cesses receiving the split portions of the end wall, acatch carried by the casing and tin ranged at an angle to the same, and a cushioned door engaging member also mounted on the casing. V

7. A combined door catch and buffer comp'ising a casing constructed of a single piece 0 metal bent to form front and rear walls and buffer comi being bent and rear.

and a connecting end wall, the latter being split at opposite sides adjacent the front and rear walls and the split portions being bent inwardly against the said front and rear walls, said front and rear walls having end wall, and the terminals of the metal of the casing being bent at right angles to the same to form an attaching member, a catch or keeper secured to the attaching member,

a door engaging member extending through the front wall of the casing and a spring arranged within the casingand cushioning the door engaging member.

A combined door catch and buffer comprising a fixed catch located at the frameor jamb of the door and a buffer having cushioning means and extending from the catch at an angle thereto and provided with receiving the split portions of the an engaging portion spaced inwardly from the catch, a distance materially greater than the size of the latch of a door, whereby the door is adapted to be closed slowly, gently, noislessly, ranged to maintain the latch of the door firmly in engagement with the said fixed catch.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

JAMES C. OLLARD.

no the cushioning means being ar- 1