US1853595A - Door holding device - Google Patents

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7 Filed Feb. 25, 1951 EL flsiur'g Patented Apr. 12, 1932 i p V p UNITE STATES HENRY I. ASBURY, or 'damoami i noon HOLDING DEvIoE Application filed February 25,1931 eria1 No. 51 8,238.

The present invention relates to door stop- In the presentinstance, the base 15 is seping devices and more particularly to a decured tothe leaf of the hinge attached to the vice adapted to hold a garage door in open wall of the garage, but I'do notw sh to be position. limited to this construction as, 1f deslred, the

5 An object of this invention is to provide a base member maybe attached to the leaf of 65 door stop in combination with a hinge which the hmge secured to the door 11. In other engages the hinge for holding the door in words,- the hinge 12 may be turned around open position. and the leaf-containing the open ng 18se- Another object of this invention is to procured to the wall 10 of the garage. f

1 vide a door stop or holding device which is 'The segmental bar or stopmember 16 is proso constructed that it will not be placed in opvided atthe lower edge thereof with a pluerative position until the door has reached rality of spaced notches 19 which'are'adapted a predetermined point in the opening thereto engage the lower edge of the o1')ening"18 of and beyond which point the door can be of theleaf 20 of the hinge 12 which is secured held in various degrees of open position. to the door. The. opening 17 is relatively The above and various other objects and widerthan the opening 18 in thehinge memadvantages of this invention will in part be ber 2 0 so that the bar 16 canengage the leaf described in and in part be understood from 20 in the opening 18 in the desired notch 19 of the following detailed description of the presthe segmental stop member 16 when the door 30 ent preferred embodiment, the same being is open. H illustrated in the accompanying drawings, One edge of the notch 19 is preferably subwherein v stantially vertically disposed and another Figure 1 is a detail top plan view partly in edge is inclined toward the lower edge of the section of a device constructed according to stop member 16 so that the door can have the preferred embodiment of this invention free swinging movement in one direction, but mounted in operative position on a garage when the leaf 20 is swung inwardly so as to and garage door; close the door, the stop member 16 will drop Figure 2 is a fragmentary front elevation the extent of the notch 19 and prevent return of the device, and ofthe door to closed position until the bar 16 39 Figure 3 is a fragmentary front elevation has been raised so as to disengage the selected partly in section showing the device in opnotch 19 from the leaf 20. erative position for holding the door open. In the use of this device, the free end of the Referring to the drawings wherein like stop member 16 is adapted to project slightly numerals of reference designate correspondthrough the door 11 when the door 11 is in ing parts throughout the several views, the closed position. When the door 11 is opened, numeral 10 designates generally a wall of a the lower edge of the stop member 16 will slide garage which is provided with a door 11 I over the bottom of the opening 18 in the leaf hingedly secured thereto by means of a leaf 20 and when it is desired to hold the door in hinge 12. The hinge 12 is secured to the door open position, the doorcan be swung outward- H,- 11 by means of screws or bolts 13 or the like. ly until the selected notch 19 engages the leaf In order to hold the door 11 in open posi- 20. The stop member 16 is gravitatingly tion, I have provided a stop member generally swung downwardly into locking position and designated as 14, which stop member 14 comthis position will be maintained until the lockprises a substantially U-shaped base member ing member 16 is manually raised so as to re- 15 to which is pivotally secured a segmental lease the lock 16 from the hinge member20. bar 16. One end of this bar 16 is free and eX- It will be obvious from the foregoing that tends through an opening 17 in the door and an exceedingly simple stop member has been an alined opening 18 in the leaf of the hinge devised for holding garage doors or the like 12 oppositely from the hinge to which the base in desired open position and while I have -0 member 15 is secured. V 1 7 stated that the device is particularly adapted 0 for use With garage doors, I do not wish to be limited to this construction, as the device may be used for other doors or swinging members which it is desired to hold in open position.

It is, of course, understood that various changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction and design of the above specifically described embodiment of this invention Without departing from the spirit thereof, such changes and modifications being restricted only by the Scene of the following claim.

I claim A door stop of the character described comprising in combination, a hinge having a pair of pivoted leaves, a substantially semi-circular member having notches in the lower edge thereof, said notches having one side disposed at substantially right angles to the ad] acent edge of the member and another side disposed on an obtuse angle to the adjacent edge of the member, means for pivotally securing said member to one leaf of'said hinge, said hinge having an opening in the other leafthrough which the free end of the member is projected, said member gravitatingly engaging one edge of said opening, said notches'permitting free movement of the hinge leaves in one direction While restricting the movement in the opposite direction.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afliX my signature.

. HENRY L. ASBURY,

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