Hinge-mountable handle assembly
OwnerMark T. Vinciguerrainventor
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Abstract
A handle assembly, mountable to a door assembly or another structure to facilitate carrying the structure, includes a main body having one or more grip portions and one or more hinge-receiving cavities. Each hinge-receiving cavity is elongately formed and configured to receive and retain a hinge barrel portion of a hinge of the structure. The handle assembly may adopt a working configuration in which the main body is mounted to the hinge of the structure by the hinge barrel portion being received and retained within a hinge-receiving cavity, and in which a grip portion is arranged outside and spaced apart from the structure allowing a hand of a user to grasp the grip portion and manually lift the structure via the handle assembly.
Claims17
A structure transportation assembly for facilitating carrying a structure, the structure comprising a hinge having a hinge barrel portion and hinge plates, the hinge barrel portion formed along an axial direction, the structure transportation assembly comprising:
- a handle assembly including a main body, the main body comprising:
- a grip portion, and
- a hinge-receiving cavity, comprising first and second spaces communicated with one another through a connecting opening and configured to removably, axially slidably receive the hinge barrel portion and part of the hinge plates of the hinge of the structure, respectively, and
- first and second shoulders arranged at opposite sides of said connecting opening;
- wherein
- the structure transportation assembly is configured to adopt a working configuration in which the main body is mounted to the hinge of the structure by the hinge barrel portion and said part of the hinge plates being received within the first and second spaces of the hinge-receiving cavity, respectively, and in which the first and second shoulders are positioned at opposite sides of the hinge, and further in which the hinge is transversely retained within the hinge-receiving cavity by the first and second shoulders blocking a transverse displacement of the hinge barrel portion out of the first space through the connecting opening, and further in which the grip portion is arranged outside and spaced apart from the structure enabling a gripping thereonto by a hand of a user to manually lift the structure via the structure transportation assembly.
A structure transportation assembly comprising:
- a structure, comprising a pair of hinges, each hinge having a hinge barrel portion and hinge plates, the hinge barrel portion formed along an axial direction;
- and
- a pair of handle assemblies, each handle assembly including a main body, the main body comprising:
- a grip portion,
- a hinge-receiving cavity, comprising first and second spaces communicated with one another along a connecting opening, and
- first and second shoulders arranged at opposite sides of said connecting opening;
- wherein
- each handle assembly of the pair of handle assemblies is disconnectably secured to the structure by the hinge barrel portion and part of the hinge plates of a respective hinge of the pair of hinges being removably and axially, slidably received within the first and second spaces of the hinge-receiving cavity of the main body of said each handle assembly, respectively, the first and second shoulders of said each handle assembly arranged at opposite sides of said respective hinge;
- wherein
- said respective hinge is transversely retained within the hinge-receiving cavity of said each handle assembly relative to said axial direction by the first and second shoulders of said each handle assembly blocking a transverse displacement of the hinge barrel portion out of the first space of said each handle assembly through the connecting opening of said each handle assembly;
- and further wherein
- the grip portions of said pair of handle assemblies enable a gripping thereonto of a pair of hands to manually lift the structure via the pair of handle assemblies.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.