US629283A - Swinging-door attachment. - Google Patents

Description

J. H. WHITAKER.

SWINGINE 000B ATTACHMENT.

(Application filed Jan. 9, 189 9.)

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No. 629,283. Patented My I8, :99.

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with my improved Opening device attached UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCE.

JOHN H. WHITAKER, OF DAVENPORT, IOlVA.

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srEcImcA'rIou forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,283, sates July 18,1899.

Application filed January 9 1899. $erial No. 'YQLSQG. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN H. WHITAKER, of Davenport, in the county of Scott and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Swinging-D oor Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to attachments for swinging doors, especially when they are used in hotels, restaurants, dining-rooms, and the like, where difficulty is experienced by the waiter passing from one room to the other with both hands employed in holding a tray of dishes. The waiters have heretofore generally been accustomed to kick the door open when they come to it, with the result that their equilibrium has often been overcome and the contents of the tray spilled, which result has often been aggravated by the return swing of the door before they had passed completely through the same. 7

It is the object of myinvention to overcome these existing difficulties in an easy, cheap, and simple manner; and with this end in view my invention consists in attaching rotatable devices to the door, on one or both sides of the same, which will enable the waiters to open the door with their body, shoulders, or hips without jar or danger of spilling the contents of the trays'which they may happen to be carrying.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- 7 Figure 1 is a face view of a swinging door thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view, the door being shown pushed open in dotted lines. Figs. 4 and 5 are plan views of doors with modified forms of my device attached thereto; and Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the device. shown in Fig. 1, the spindle of the wheel being extended to receive a knob.

The swinging door A is, as shown, mounted on hinges B to swing in both directions be- 7 tweenthe partition, walls, or the like 0.

To one or both sides of the door A, depend-.

door is to be ing largely upon whether the opened from one or both sides, is-secured in any suitable manner an outwardly-projecting bracket D, in whose outer end is mounted the vertical spindle E. A wheel F is mounted to 'nected by a belt H.

rotate on-this verticalspindle E, and. th

wheel F' is preferably formed with apadding.

G on its periphery, of soft felt, rubber, or the vlike,'or the said padding may be pneumatic.

As shown, Iypreferably secure the bracket'to a door at such a point that the wheel will be located a distance from the floor equal to that of the human leg of ordinary length, so that the hip may be used against the wheel; but it is evident that it may be located so as to be operated by a shoulder, the location of the wheel depending upon the disposition of the panels in the door or the personal convenience of those using it. Now it will be seenthat the wheel F projects from the side of the door a considerable distance, so that when one places a hip or shoulder against the wheel to open the door and the door is pressed open to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 8 the free edge of the door will be quite a distance away, as shown by the line co m in such vfigure, door swinging back against the waiter before and there willbe no danger of the the latter has completely passed through, hence obviating the difficulties mentioned above.

By making the padding of the wheel of'soft felt or by making'it pneumatic the device is rendered pleasant to operate and very light and soft.

Figs. 4, 5, and 6 represent cross-sectional views of the door and plan views of several modifications of the attachment. Referring to Fig. i, it will be seen that two brackets Af A and wheels F F are employed instead of one, as described above, the advantage of such latter arrangement being that a pocket is formed between the wheels to receive that part of the body used to open the door, and

hence there is no danger of slipping on a -highly-polished floor when pressing somewhat at a tangent against an easily-rotatable wheel. In Fig. 5 I have shown the two wheels F con- As shown in Fig. 6, the spindle E of the wheel may be extended to receive a knob E, which rests loosely thereon and may be employed to push the door open by hand.- when the hands are not otherwise occupied.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An attachment'for swinging doors consisting of a bracket secured to the side of the door at the height of a persons hip or shoulder and a wheel mounted to turn about a vertical axis on said bracket, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. An attachment for swinging doors, consisting of a Wheel mounted to rotate upon a vertical axis on a bracket on a side of the door, the periphery of the said wheel extending a considerable distance beyond the side of the doors, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. An attachment for swinging doors, consisting of a bracket secured to and extending outwardly from a side of the door and a padded wheel mounted to rotate about its vertical axis on the outer end of said bracket,

said wheel being arranged for engagement ea'aasci forth.

JOHN H. WHITAKER. WVitnesses:

TIMOTHY A. MURPHY, I. C. ANDERSON.

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