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US 11,767,697 B2Granted
Closing device
OwnerRobert Paul Gardner, Stephen Gardnerinventors
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Abstract
A compact, easily mountable door closer, particularly suited for use in cubicles provided in public washrooms, has a pivot member mounted substantially within a hollow body but has a section projecting from the body from which a door is, in use, suspended. A biasing element is provided to bias the pivot member toward a neutral position coincident with the door being closed. As the door and thus the pivot member is displaced away from the closed or neutral position to a defined angle, the biasing element and pivot member engage to provide a limit or fully open position.
Claims18
A door closing apparatus, comprising:
- an elongate body of constant outer cross section, the elongate body having a length axis and an interior void;
- a pivot member located, at least in part, within the interior void, and constructed and arranged to rotate about a pivot axis, the pivot member including a first section and a second section arranged on the pivot axis, the second section being smaller in diameter than the first section;
- a biasing element located within the interior void and mounted between the elongate body and the pivot member to bias the pivot member toward a neutral position in which bias applied by the biasing element is at a minimum;
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- a damping means operable to damp rotation of the pivot member relative to the elongate body,
- wherein the biasing element, in combination with the pivot member, is configured such that as the pivot member is rotated a defined angle from the neutral position, the biasing element directly contacts an outer peripheral surface of the second section to limit further rotation of the pivot member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.