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US 4,062,577 AGranted
Door holding apparatus
AssigneeCaterpillar Tractor Co.
InventorsMax E. Butterfield, Robert M. Alt, Sr.
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Abstract
A door holding apparatus has rotatable and pivotal holding means that is spring biased for contacting a catch and is positioned generally along a plane of an adjacent structure in a stored position and contacting and maintaining a door at a preselected location at a door holding position.
Claims5
Door holding apparatus for a door having a latch element for holding the door at a closed position, comprising:
- a housing;
- a supporting structure having a catch;
- means for pivotally connecting the housing to the supporting structure;
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- holding means connected to the housing for rotatable movement relative to the housing and pivotal movement relative to the supporting structure between a stored position at which the holding means is contacting the catch and the supporing structure and forcibly positioned therebetween and lying generally along a plane of the supporting structure and a door holding position at which the holding means is spaced from the catch and is in releasable, holding engagement with the door latch element and maintaining the door at a preselected open position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.