Closure fasteners – Wedges – Portable
Patent
1989-02-27
1990-12-11
Smith, Gary L.
Closure fasteners
Wedges
Portable
292DIG61, E05C 1754
Patent
active
049764799
ABSTRACT:
A resilient doorstop may be inexpensively manufactured to provide a door-engaging portion and a base portion interconnected with two or more serially connect, long, straight lengths of rod layer transverse to the door-engaging portion and having a length sufficient that the door-engaging portion may be substantially deformed in the direction of the base portion without exceeding the elastic limit of the rod. The resilient doorstep is preferably formed from a single, resilient, bent rod and includes a U-shaped portion with a central axis laying transverse to the central axis of the door-engaging portion to provide one or more long straight lenghts of rod, permitting deformation of the door-engaging portion toward the base portion through torsional deformation and urging the door-engaging portion away from the base portion through torsional resilience. The base portion may be a large U-shaped portion at one end of the rod, and the door-engaging portion may be a smaller U-shaped portion at the other end of the rod that is positioned to be concentric with the larger, U-shaped, base portion so that the smaller door-engaging portion may be deformed into substantially the same plane as the base portion, thereby permitting the doorstop to be inserted into a space between the door and the floor that is only slightly greater than the thickness of the rod from which the doorstop is formed.
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Meller Michael N.
Miland Michael
Smith Gary L.
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