US 2001/0054825 A1Published application

Doorjamb reinforcing device

AssigneesScott K. Hamilton, Michelle S. Hamilton

InventorsScott Kenneth Hamilton, Michelle Scott Hamilton

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Abstract

A doorjamb strengthening device comprising an interior metal plate (1), a primary interior cylindrical reinforcing member (5), an aperture (11), a secondary cylindrical reinforcing member (6), an exterior metal plate (2), a primary exterior cylindrical reinforcing member (9), and a secondary exterior cylindrical connecting member (10). First metal plate is fastened to second metal plate by an interference fit between said primary interior cylindrical reinforcing member and said primary exterior cylindrical reinforcing member and said secondary interior cylindrical connecting member and said secondary exterior cylindrical connecting member.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A doorjamb strengthening device comprising:

a) an interior metal plate composed of an interior spanning portion shaped to conform to and overlap width of interior door molding integrally attached to an interior flange portion overlapping interior wall surface
b) a primary interior cylindrical reinforcing member protruding in a perpendicular direction from non-fronting surface of interior metal plate
c) an aperture
d) secondary interior cylindrical connecting member
e) an exterior metal plate composed of an exterior spanning portion shaped to conform to and overlap width of exterior door molding integrally attached to an exterior flange portion overlapping exterior wall surface
f) a primary exterior cylindrical reinforcing member protruding in a perpendicular direction from non-fronting surface of exterior metal plate
g) secondary exterior cylindrical connecting member
whereby first metal plate is fastened to second metal plate by an interference fit between said primary interior cylindrical reinforcing member and said primary exterior cylindrical reinforcing member and said secondary interior cylindrical connecting member and said secondary exterior cylindrical connecting member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/771,386Filed 26 Jan 2001
Priority: 24 Jan 2000
Published: 27 Dec 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

E05B 17/2084
Means independent of the locking mechanism for preventing unauthorised opening, e.g. for securing the bolt in the fastening position: means to…
E05B 15/0205
Striking-plates; Keepers; Bolt staples; Escutcheons: striking-plates, keepers, staples
Y10T 292/03
Closure fasteners: miscellaneous
Y10T 292/68
Closure fasteners: keepers

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Application60/177,687Us provisional application · filed 24 Jan 2000
US 6,557,914 B2Related patent
US 2001/0054825 A1This patent

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