US1842734A

US1842734A - Door holding device

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Publication number: US1842734A
Application number: US326790A
Authority: US
Inventors: Saives Leon
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1928-02-11
Filing date: 1928-12-18
Publication date: 1932-01-26
Anticipated expiration: 1949-01-26

Description

Jan. 26, 1932.. L. SAIVES 1,842,734

DOOR HOLDING DEVICE Filed Dec. 18, 1928 iii xiiazaaflw Patented Jan. 26, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LEON SAIVES, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOIB- TO LOUIS RENAULT, OF IBILLANCOURT,

' SEINE, FRANCE DOOR HOLDING DEVICE Application filed December 18, 1928, Serial No. 826,790, and in France February 11, 1928.

The present invention relates to an arrangemcnt for absorbing shocks and vibrations, which is chiefly applicable for use as a door-holder for motor vehicles.

The said arrangement consists essentially of two rubber bands provided with teeth or corrugations, which are placed in the opposite position on the door leaf and frame. The said bands are mutually engaged by their corrugations, and will thus obviate all disagreeable noise due to the only parts in contact of the door leaf and the vehicle body. Also, the elastic action of the two rubber bands in contact will prevent any slight motion of the door leaf with reference to the vehicle body.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of the door leaf and frame, provided with the device according to the invention, and F i ure 2, is a sectional view on a larger scale 0 a rubber facing, on the line A-B of Figure 1.

With reference to the drawings, it will be observed that as concerns the-use of the device upon motor vehicles, the door frame or vehicle body is shown at 1 and the door leaf at 2, this being represented as slightly open.

The door leaf 2 has at the side a cut-out portion 3 cooperating with the rabbet of the frame 1. On the respective opposite faces of the said cut-out portion and the rabbet are disposed rubber bands land 5. The said rubber bands are corrugated at 6, as shown in Figure 2. The said bands are engaged when in the closing position by their corrugations or teeth 6. I may dispose along the height of the said cut-out portion and the rabbet one or more sets of rubber bands. The corrugations or teeth may have any suitable shape, and the bands may consist of other material than rubber, provided such material has a certain elasticity. The corrugations may be replaced by projections of suitable shape cooperating with corresponding recesses. I may employ only one elastic facing,

a the other facing member being rigid.

It will be readily understood that all disagreeable noise from vehicle doors will-be prevented by the use of the aforesaid elastic 'acings, since the cut-out part of the door leaf will rest upon the rabbet of the door frame through the medium of the rubber facings.

All slight motion of the door leaf Will be absorbed by the elastic action of the rubber bands which are in mutual engagement by their corrugations or teeth.

The said facing device can also be employed to advantage for other purposes, and chiefly for vehicle bodies and for building construction, upon all occasions in which it is desired to prevent noise between two parts in contact which are adapted for relative motion.

Claims:

1. The combination, with a door, and a jamb having a surface adapted to limit the movement of said door, of rubber strips secured to said surface and to the contacting surface of the door, each of said strips being transversely corrugated to form hills and valleys, whereby, when the door is closed, each of the hills on the one strip will enter and contact the portion of the other strip which forms a valley substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination with a door and a jamb having a surface adapted to limit the.movement of said door, ofresilient strips secured to said surface, and similar strips carried by the contacting surface of said door, each of said strips being transversely corrugated to form hills and valleys, and so positioned that, when the door is closed, each of the hills on one strip will contact upon a portion of the other strip which forms a valley, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A door holder and shock and vibration,

absorbing means primarily for hinged automobile doors mounted to swing against the door frame or jamb member, consisting of a pair of mutually cooperative engagement strips, one strip to besecured along the ed e of the door remotefrom the hinges and t e other to be secured along the door jamb, said strips each having transverse corrugations to form hills and valleys and so positioned respectively on the door and jamb that when the door is closed the hills on one strip will enter the valleys of the other strip whereby the strips will preveht a. vertical movement of.

the door with respect to the jamb and the strip on the jamb will also tend to support the door.

In testimony whereof he has signed this specification.

LEON SAIYES.