US930105A - Door-fender. - Google Patents

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W. H. TERRBLL. DOOR FENDER. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 4, 190B.

Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

WILLIAM H.'TERRELL, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

DOOR-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

Application filed December 4, 1908. Serial No. 465,964.

T a ll whom it may concern:

Be it known thatl, WILLIAM H. TERRELL,

I a citizen of the United States, and resident I the door 4 for holdin I The deep end of the lilock 1, in the present of Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Door-Fender, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates todoor fenders and more particularly to a fender which is adapted to be secured to a swinging door to protect the door itself from bruising or chafing contact with another swinging door or with the wall. A practical embodiment of my invention 1s represented ,in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a view of the fender as it 'ap pears when attached to the upper free swinging corner of a door, Fig. 2-is a top plan view of the same, Fig. 3 is an enlarged top plan view of the fender in detail,'Fig. 4 is an end view of the same, Fig. 5 is a face new of the same, Fig. 6 is a top plan view of a fender showing a modified form, Fig. 7 is ah endview of the same, Fig. 8 is'a face view of the same, Fig. 9 is a-.plan view in detail of a modified form of adjustable shank and fender roller, Fig. 10 is an edge iew of the same, Fig. 11 is a'top plan viewof an other modified form showing the body of the fender in skeleton form, Fig. 12 is an end view of the same, Fig. 13 is a top plan View of a modified form in which the body is skeleton and the roller carrying shankis secured to the front instead of the end of the body, and Fig. 14 is a face view of the same.

Referring to the formsshown in Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the body of the fender is denoted by 1 and may consist of a block of wood having its outer face. formed on a graceful compound curve, as shown at 2, gradually reducing the depth of the block so that a screw 3 may be passed through it into the block in position.

instance the end toward the free swinging edge of the door 4, is provided with a kerf or slot 5 (see Fig. extending back toward the screw 3, for instance to the dotted line 6, Fig.3, for the reception of the shank 7'of the fender roller support. This shank 7 may be held in position within the kerf 5 by frictional contact, the pressure of the oppo-' site walls of the kerf or slot 5 being increased at pleasure by means of a clamping screw 8 extending through one of the walls of the block 1 and screwed into the opposite wall. The fender roller holder may be formed conveniently of a thin strip of metal, the two parts of which are folded upon themselves to form the shank 7 and at their outer ends branch outwardly-to form the branches 9 and 10 between which the fender roller 11 is journaled by means of a spindle 12 passing centrally through the roller 11 and fastened in the branches 9 and 10. As thus constructed, when the door t is swung open the roller 11, which maybe of rubber, felt or other suitable yielding material, will on ge any-obstruction to the swinging of the cor before the door itself strikes such obstruction and thus will fend it from any bruising pleasure by adjusting the shank 7 outwardly or inwardly within the kerf, 5 and pinching it inits adjusted position by means of the screw 8.

; Instead ofinserting the shank 7 in'akerf formed inthe supporting biock 1, the jsup: porting block may bemade solid as shown 11313, Figs. 6, 7 and 8, and the roller holder may be formed of a single strip of metal split at its outer endand the branches twisted, as .shown at 14, 15, Figs. 6, 7 and 8, to

receive between them the fender roller 11, the shank 16 of the roller holder being provided with an elongated slot 17 adapted to rest against the. end of the block 13 and held in its proper adjusted position by means of a set screw 18. 1

Instead of splitting the end of the roller holder to form branchesl i and 15, the strip of metal which forms the shank may be formed, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10, and

denoted by 19, its outer end being rolled over to form a socket 20 .throu h whicha spindle 21 may be passed, the spindlecarrythe block 13, as shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8.

Instead of making the block which supports the roller holder solid, it may be made in skeleton form, as shown in Figs. 11 to 14:, inclusive, and in this instance may be formed of a thin piece of metal bent into triangular form and the holder for the fender roller holder may be provided with an elongatedslot 17 like those indicated inFigs. 6 to 10 inclusive, through which 'a screw 31 maybe passed to receive a locking nut 32 onthe inner face of either the end wall of the skeleton triangular body support 33.0r on the front or oblique faceof the said support, as shown in F1gs..13 and. 14;, as the case maybe.

- The particular arrangement shown in 'Figs. 13 and 14 is a very convenient one where the fender is employed to prevent the door from engaging the base board or wall against which it may be swung, since the fender'roller support may be made of spring metal' and located as it is on the skeleton block 33, the impact of the roller against stantially at rig the wall will cause the roller support to yield by a. springing or elastic motion so that the fender 'roller willnot suffer from the impact to the extent that it might, if

so placed on;the end of the body support as to strike-the wall and in a direction corresponding to the lane of its support or subl it angles. I

While I haveshown several. forms in which my invention may be embodied, it is obvious-that further changes might be resorted to in the form and arrangement of the parts without. departing from the spirit and scope of'my invention; hencev I do npt wish tolimit myself strictly to the structur herein shown and described, but

What I-claim is w 1. A' fender com rising a body portion adapted to be secured to the face of the door, a tender roller, a fender roller support and means for attaching-thefender roller support to the body portion in different adjus'tments toward and away from the face of the door. A

2. A fender comprising a body portion adapted to be secured to the face of a door, a fender roller, a'fender roller support, One of the parts, the body portion and, fender roller s'upport,being provided with a slot and a screw .coacting with the slot to hold the fender roller support in different adjustments toward and away from the face of the door.

' '3. A fender comprising a body portion adapted to be secured, to the face of a door, the said body portion .being provi dednwith a kerf or'slot in its end, a tender roller, a support for the fender roller provided with a thin shank adapted to enter the kerf or slot in the-body portion and a screw forn -L" holding the walls of the kerf orslot in gripl 7 0, to secure it in different adjustments toward 1 ping contact with the fender roller holder and away from the face of the door.

In testimony, that I claim. the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two witnesses, "this-twenty-fifth day of-November 1908.

WILLIAM H. TERRELL. Witnesses;

F. GEORGE BARRY, c HENRY THIEME.

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