Door stop
OwnerNeil Baroneinventor
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Abstract
A door stop is in the form of a generally U-shaped base having a spacing member extending outwardly from one of the vertical walls of the base. The door stop is slidably mounted on the bottom of a door. The spacing member is of a length greater than the distance a doorknob or other door hardware extends from the door. As a result, when the door is swung to its open position the spacing member contacts the room wall to prevent the door hardware from contacting the room wall. A magnet could be mounted to the wall molding to magnetically hold the door in its open position where at least part of the door stop is made of metal.
Claims18
A door stop for preventing door hardware on a pivotally mounted door from contacting a room wall when the door is swung to its open condition, said door stop comprising a base of generally U-shape with a pair of upwardly extending vertical walls interconnected by a bottom wall for fitting around and being mounted to the bottom of the door, a spacing member secured to one of said vertical walls and extending outwardly from said one vertical wall, said spacing member having an anchor end secured to said one vertical wall and a free end remote from said one vertical wall, and a contact tip at said free end.
A method of preventing door hardware on a pivotally mounted door from contacting a room wall when the door is swung to an open condition, said method including slidably mounting a U-shaped base around the bottom of the door, providing a spacing member on one wall of the U-shaped base disposed toward the room wall with the spacing member having a length greater than the distance the door hardware extends from the door, and contacting the free end of the spacing member with the room wall when the door is swung open to prevent the door hardware from contacting the room wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.