Device and method for propping a commercial door open

• Main Author: Tallent, Jeff
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.08.2022
• Subjects: BOLTS OR FASTENING DEVICES FOR WINGS, SPECIALLY FOR DOORS ORWINDOWS; CHECKS FOR WINGS; DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS; HINGES OR OTHER SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS; KEYS; LOCKS; SAFES; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THEFUNCTIONING OF THE WING

Disclosed is a door holder which comprises a planar, rectangular plate the plate constructed with two integral channels, oriented parallel to the left and right edges, respectively, of the rectangular plate. The door holder serves as a means to prop open a heavyweight, commercial door, the subject door being operated by spring-loaded hinges. The door may be continuously held open by means of bracing either edge of the rectangular plate against the outer edge of a doorstop. In conjunction with the placement of an edge of the door holder against the doorstop, one of the integral channels is then mounted so as to straddle the top of the shoulder of the leaf of one spring-loaded hinge. In this manner, the door is forcibly held in an open position, forming a ninety-degree angle between the plane of the door frame and the face of the door.