Movable or removable closures – With means mounting closure for swinging – Hinge edge – finger guard – lock or disparate seal
Patent
1999-07-15
2000-10-24
Stodola, Daniel P.
Movable or removable closures
With means mounting closure for swinging
Hinge edge, finger guard, lock or disparate seal
16258, E05D 1100
Patent
active
061348392
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns a door-mounted device serving as a guard for prevention of clamping injuries in connection with door closing movements.
Each door is a potential source of injuries inasmuch as the door, when being opened, forms a gap between the door leaf and the door frame on the door-suspension or hinge side. It easily happens that one or a couple of fingers are inadvertently introduced into the gap thus formed and are seriously injured, should the door close before the fingers are withdrawn. This danger is particularly imminent in the case of small children playing on the floor adjacent an open door. The child may be on the outside of the door and happen to introduce some of his fingers or a hand into the gap as he is about to get up and in doing so supports himself by placing his other hand on the door leaf, thus closing the door without first retracting his fingers from the gap. Also grown-ups may, of course, easily find themselves in an equivalent situation.
The devices hitherto presented to solve this problem do, however, fail to be entirely satisfactory, which has strongly contributed to the non-existing use of any construction of this nature in any doors of any kind in any one environment.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a guard which offers total protection against clamping injuries on the door hinge or suspension side, where the risks of injuries potentially are the highest. The features characterising the inventive guard are defined in the appended claims.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The invention will be described in closer detail in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a part of a door and its associated frame,
FIG. 2 is a view on a larger scale of a part of the frame fitted with the guard in accordance with the invention,
FIG. 3 is a sectional view on line III--III of FIG. 2,
FIG. 4 is a view of a part of the guard as seen from the side, and
FIGS. 5, 6 and 7 are perspective views of a part of the door that is fitted with the guard, the door leaf being shown in different open positions.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The guard in accordance with the invention comprises guard rods 1a, 1b, 1c. Preferably they are formed as hollow circular rods made from metal, plastics or wood, the choice being dependent on the appearance and nature of the door. The guard rods 1a, 1b, 1c are attached to the suspension or hinge side of the door in such a manner that, calculated from below, they cover at least the major part of the gap 2, see FIG. 6, that forms between the door leaf 3 and the door frame 4 on the suspension side 5 of the frame 4.
The guard also includes a plate 6 which is pivotally mounted in hinges 7, 8 on the same door frame side 5 adjacent the gap, see FIGS. 5-7, that widens as the door opens. At least one of the hinges, in accordance with the embodiment illustrated in the drawings hinge 8, is equipped with a spring 9 tending to urge the plate 6 against the door leaf 3 in any open position of the latter.
The guard rods 1a, 1b, 1c and the plate 6 are interconnected by means of fittings 10 that may be screwed to the door frame 4. As illustrated in FIG. 4, which shows only guard rods 1a and 1b, rod 1a is formed with a downwardly open slit 11a and an upwardly open slit 11b whereas rod 1b is formed with an upwardly open slit 12a and a downwardly open slit 12b.
Fitting the guard in accordance with the invention to a door is a very simple task. The rod 1a is passed from underneath onto the lowermost hinge 13 of the door with the aid of the slit 11b. Thereafter, the lowermost fitting 10 associated with the plate 6 is introduced through the slit 11a and moved upwards inside the hollow rod 1a as far as possible. The rod 1b is then passed from above onto the same hinge 13 with the aid of the slit 12b, whereupon the uppermost fitting 10 is introduced into the slit 12a and pushed down into rod 1b, also hollow. Each fitting 10 may then be secured to
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Cohen Curtis A.
Stodola Daniel P.
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