Doorstop lifting device and method

A doorstop lifting system for use with an existing doorstop that is hingedly connected to a door, the doorstop lifting system comprising:

• a) the doorstop, which is hingedly connected to the door at a doorstop hinged connection, the doorstop operable to move from a doorstop down position wherein the doorstop is engaging a ground surface, to a doorstop up position wherein the doorstop is off the ground surface;
• b) a lift member including an opening that is sized and shaped to accommodate the doorstop and a rod at a location below the doorstop hinged connection, wherein the doorstop and the rod can be slipped through the opening of the lift member, and wherein the lift member has two spaced apart plates with the opening in between the two spaced apart plates;
• c) the doorstop and the rod, at the location below the doorstop hinged connection, positioned within the opening of the lift member;
• d) wherein the rod is pivotally connected to the lift member at a lift member connection that is below the doorstop hinged connection and wherein the rod is also slidably connected to the door within a bracket connection, the rod extending upwards from the lift member connection and above the doorstop hinged connection, and wherein the rod is slidably movable between a rod down position and a rod up position;
• e) the rod having a top having a size and shape to accommodate a user's finger to move the rod upward from the rod down position to the rod up position;
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• f) the doorstop lifting system movable between a lowered position and a raised position, wherein in the lowered position the doorstop is in the doorstop down position engaging the ground surface and the rod is in the rod down position, and wherein in the raised position the doorstop is in the doorstop up position and the rod is in the rod up position, and wherein movement of the rod upwards causes the doorstop lifting system to move from the lowered position to the raised position allowing the door to close.

A doorstop lifting system comprising:

• a) a doorstop that is connected to a door at an upper doorstop hinged connection, the doorstop having a bottom surface and operable to move from a doorstop down position, wherein the doorstop bottom surface is engaging a ground surface, to a doorstop up position, wherein the doorstop is off the ground surface;
• b) a doorstop connector having an opening that is sized and shaped to accommodate the doorstop and a rod at a location that is in between the upper doorstop hinged connection and the doorstop bottom surface, and wherein the doorstop connector includes two spaced apart plates and the opening is in between the two spaced apart plates;
• c) wherein the doorstop connector extends in front of the doorstop and the door;
• d) the doorstop and the rod, at the location in between the upper doorstop hinged connection and the doorstop bottom surface, positioned within the opening of the doorstop connector when in the doorstop down position;
• e) the rod coupled to the doorstop connector in front of the doorstop and the door at a lower doorstop pivot connection, wherein the rod and the doorstop are in the opening of the doorstop connector, with the rod positioned in front of the doorstop and connected to the lower doorstop pivot connection when the doorstop is in the doorstop down position;
• f) wherein the rod is also slidably coupled to the door within a bracket connection, wherein the rod is slidably movable between a rod down position and a rod up position, and wherein the rod extends upwards from the doorstop connector, the rod being spaced laterally away from the upper doorstop hinged connection and extending a first distance below the upper doorstop hinged connection and a second distance above the upper doorstop hinged connection when the rod is in the rod down position;
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• g) the doorstop lifting system movable between a lowered position and a raised position, wherein in the lowered position the doorstop is in the doorstop down position engaging the ground surface and the rod is in the rod down position, and wherein in the raised position the doorstop is in the doorstop up position and the rod is in the rod up position, and wherein movement of the rod upwards causes the doorstop lifting system to move from the lowered position to the raised position allowing the door to close.