Combination door handle and grab bar for an agricultural or industrial cab door

A combination door latch actuating handle and an exit/entry operator support assembly for a vertically oriented agricultural/industrial cab door comprising:

• a support bracket having a main support plate and a pair of mounting/pivot and stop ears, each of the mounting/pivot and stop ears extending inwardly from the cab door and positioned generally perpendicular to the main support plate at each end;
• a retaining means for affixing the support bracket to the cab door;
• a generally U-shaped combination door handle and grab bar having an elongated main body and a leg extending generally perpendicular to each end, each leg defining a lower end;
• a pivot means for swingably mounting the combination door handle and grab bar lower legs about a horizontal axis passing through the mounting ears and the legs parallel to the plane of the cab door;
• a release means connected to one of the legs for unlatching the cab door;
• the engagement of the lower ends of the combination door handle and grab bar legs being manually and selectively engageable and disengageable with the support bracket to dispose the combination door handle and grab bar between a generally vertical angle defining a door unlatching position reached by manually swinging the combination door handle and grab bar upwardly and outwardly towards the cab door;
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• an acute angle defining a door latching position reached by manually swinging the combination door handle and grab bar inwardly and downwardly away from the cab door.