US2172610A - Door check - Google Patents

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Sept. 12, 1939. E, FRANK 2,172,610

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DOOR. CHECK Edward Frank, Berkeley, Calif.

Application July 18, 1938, Serial No. 219,738

1 Claim. (Cl. 292288) This invention relates to devices for use with legs 4 apart and flexing the bridge 6 so that when doors or the like for releasably maintaining the the check is brought to rest in its ultimate posilatter in various open positions. tion, the surfaces 1 of the legs will be firmly It is an object of the invention to provide a pressed against the front and rear surfaces of simple and low-cost door check. the door. If the gap between the door and floor 5 Another object of the invention is to provide is wider than usual and it is found that after a device of the character described which may the check has been mounted the latter does not be quickly and easily mounted on and removed contact the floor, downward pressure may be from the door. applied to the upper ends of the legs to shift the 10 The invention possesses other objects and feacheck downwardly until the desired contact is 10 tures of advantage some of which, together with obtained. the foregoing, will be specifically set forth in the The door check of my invention just described detailed description of the invention hereunto is obviously quite simple both in construction and annexed. It is to be understood that the invenin its method of application, may be easily attion is not to be limited to the specific form tached to and removed from various doors about 15 thereof herein shown and described as various the house, may be satisfactorily applied by the other forms thereof may be employed within the ordinary unskilled housewife, and will not scratch scope of the appended claim. or otherwise mar the surface of the floor.

Referring to the drawing: Besides functioning to hold doors in various Figure 1 is aperspective view illustrating a poropen positions, the check may be applied also 20 tion of a door structure and showing the door to the vertical edge of the door where it will serve check of my invention mounted thereon. as a bumper to prevent the door from slamming Figure 2 is a top plan view of the door check shut. This is particularly useful in connection alone. with doors equipped with glass panels as it has Figure 3 is a front elevational view of the strucbeen known that the severe shock imposed on the 25 ture shown in Figure 2. panel by suddenly slamming a door of this char- In detail, the door check of my invention comacter is often sufficient to crack or shatter the prises a preferably U-shaped member composed glass. The check is also useful to prevent anof rubber or other similar elastic substance having noying rattling of doors whose latch bolts have a pair of spaced legs 4 joined together at one end become worn. By placing a check on the door 30 by an integral arcuate bridge 6. The inner conas shown in Figure 1 and closing the door, the fronting faces I of the legs 4 are normally disslight movement of the latter allowed by the loose posed in angular relation so that the legs, at their or worn latch will be prevented. distal ends, are substantially in contact with each Having thus described my invention, what I other, and a portion of each leg is cut away so claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 35 as to provide, at one side of the door check, a ent is:

V-shaped notch formed by the inclined surfaces A device of the character described comprising 8 which border the leg faces 1. a substantially U-shaped resilient member having It is intended that the check shall be mounted a pair of spaced legs and an integral flexible on a door 9 between the bottom edge ll thereof bridge portion joining said legs together at one 40 and the surface of the floor l2. This is done by end thereof, said legs in their normal unfiexed placing the check on the floor with the legs 4 positions being in close proximity at the other pointing upwardly and with the notch formed ends thereof opposite said bridge portion, each by the angular surfaces 8 contacting the vertical of said legs having a surface portion thereof con- 5 edges of the door. Manual pressure is then apfronting the other of the legs angularly inclined plied to push the bridge portion 6 of the check to provide in a side of said U-shaped member a horizontally into the gap between the bottom of depression of V-shaped cross-sectional form, and the door and the surface of the floor. As the said depression extending substantially the entire check is moved, the edges l3 of the door will ride length of said legs.

along the inclined surfaces 8 thereby forcing the EDWARD FRANK. 50

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