US2098783A

US2098783A - Door holder

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Publication number: US2098783A
Application number: US109247A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hornung Ralph
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1936-11-05
Filing date: 1936-11-05
Publication date: 1937-11-09
Anticipated expiration: 1954-11-09

Description

Nov. 9, 1937. R. HORNUNG 2,098,783

DOOR HQLDER I Filed Nov. 5, 1936 If Rgi. WD -7 I NTQ Patented Nov. 9, 1937 I um- D STATES PATENT oFFicE.

1', "a v DOOR; HOLDER Ralph Hornung, Detroit, Mich.

Application November 1936, Serial No. 109,247

1 Claim.

"This invention relates to a door stop or holder forholdinga swinging door, particularly a garage door, inopen'position, and an object of the invention' is'toprovide-a device for the purpose ""whichmaybe manufactured at avery low cost and the construction of which is such asto facilitate'its manipulation in use, it being such that the brace or prop-member thereof-may be dropped from any elevated position into contact with the drivewayand"inay'swing freely in any direction to follow the swinging movement of the door and be brought thereby into bracing position to hold the door open.

A further object is to provide an arrangement 15 whereby such brace or prop may be swung upwardly from any operative position into which it may have been lowered, and then interlocked in such up position with the member for pivotally attaching the prop to the door, to hold the prop 20 in elevated inoperative position.

It is also an object to provide a bracket plate for attaching the device to the door, said bracket being arranged to form an abutment for the upper end of the prop when in lowered position 25 and holding the door open; and further, to provide certain other new and useful features in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts, all as hereinafter more fully set forth and particularly pointed out in the appended claim,

30 reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device in operative position upon a door;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device and 35 showing in dotted lines the prop or brace in inoperative position;

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of Fig. 2 with the pivot staple in section and showing the prop in dotted lines, swung upwardly into inoperative po- 40 sition;

Fig. 4 is a plan View of the lower end of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 5 is a front elevation similar to Fig. 2 showing the prop member in inoperative position and 45 swung laterally to a position opposite that shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

As shown in Fig. 1 the present device is illustrated as applied to a swinging door I which is hinge connected to the vertical side of a door 50 opening to swing outwardly over the usual concrete driveway in front of the door opening, the door illustrated, being a garage door.

The device embodying the present invention comprises a bracket plate 2 formed of sheet metal 55 which plate is provided with a plurality of holes in the plate Zflan'd secured firmly to the plate byriv'eti'ng down or otherwise fastem-ngthe ends of the legs within said openings in the plate-, A prop or brace member 8, preferably formed of bar stock having a rectangular cross section, is

pivotally attached at its upper end to the loop or staple 5 by turning the upper end of this bar backwardly into parallelism with the main straight portion of the prop to form a longitudinal slot 9 through which the loop or staple 5 extends, the end of the bar being bent toward the straight run of the bar into contact with the lower side thereof to close the lower end of the slot 9.

Preferably the loop or staple 5 is round in cross section and as its outer closed end is curved as at 6, the prop 8 may be swung to any desired position upon this loop or staple, and as the staple extends through the slot 9 of the prop,

said prop may be moved endwise upon the staple. Because the staple is of much greater width than the width of the prop, the prop may be turned upwardly from any down position in which it may be, and then by sliding, it longitudinally through the loop the upper end of the prop may be engaged with or beneath the opposite side of the loop or with the bracket plate 2 and will thus be held in an elevated position. When the prop is swung downwardly upon the loop 5 to engage the concrete driveway at its lower end and brace the door in open position, said prop may slide 40 upwardly upon the loop 5 to engage its upper end within the angle between the plate 2 and its flange 4, said flange thus forming an abutment to take the end thrust of the prop.

Because of the slotted connection of the prop 8 with the loop 5, the prop may be swung upon the loop into any desired position about the axis of the curved outer end 6 of the loop and then may be swung upwardly and moved endwise to engage the upper closed end of the prop beneath an opposite side of the loop as shown in Figs. 2 and 5, to lock the prop in inoperative position, and also as shown in Fig. 3 the prop may be swung upwardly from a position extending outwardly from the bracket 2, and then moved endwise to engage its closed end with the bracket plate and thus lock the propin inoperative position.

Because the prop has a free swinging movement upon its pivotal connection or loop 5, when the door is opened and the prop is dropped with its free end in contact with the pavement fromrany elevated position in which it may be, it will drag along the pavement, following the path of swinging movementof the door without hindrance to such movement and when the door has reached its fully open position, the prop will be in the proper position to hold the door open and its upper end will engage the stop flange l of the bracket to take the end thrust of the prop. In like man ner the prop, no matter in what direction it may extend from the loop 5, may be swung upwardly and then by a short endwise movement of the prop will be extended through the loop until the loop engages the outer end of the slot, 9 with the closed end of the prop extending through the loop to hold the prop interlocked with the loop and in elevated position;'the weight of the prop tending to move itv downwardly and hold the prop in elevated position. 7

A device for the purpose, which is of very simple construction is thus provided and is of such construction that it is strong and durable and not liable to get out 0! order, there being no necessity for extra parts to provide forthe locking of the prop or brace in inoperative position.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

, abut at its slotted end said abutment flange which A device for the purpose described including a bracket member adapted to be secured to the inner face of a swinging door adjacent its outer end and lower corner, a horizontally disposed loop having spaced apart side legs and an outer curved end connecting said legs, said loop being secured at the ends of its legs to said bracket, and a prop member of extended length having a longitudinal slot adjacent its upper end through which slot said loop extends for pivotally, attaching said prop to said door and for permitting lateral movement of 7 said prop along said loop around said curved end thereof to extend outwardly from said door-radially from said bracket with its iree end in engagement with the surface over which the door swings and follow the path of swinging movement of the door, said'prop being movable longitudinally by reason of the engagement of said loop with said slot, to permit said prop to' be swung upwardly and then moved endwise to engage its slotted end within said loop and hold said prop in inoperative position, said braoket being provided with an abutment flange exten ing outwardly over and in spaced relation tosaidl loco-whereby said prop when in operative position to hold said door in open position, will;

flange will take the thrust of said prop.

RALPH M651;