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US 5,787,548 AGranted
Door damper
OwnerChou-Shiang Tzeninventor
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Abstract
A door damper includes a base, an outer tube having one end rotatably received in the base, an inner tube retractably received in the outer tube, a contacting member disposed to the inner tube so as to contact an inner side of a door, an actuating member including a handle and an end plate which extend transversely from an end of the handle wherein the end plate inserted into and pivotally connected to the inner tube via a slot defined in the inner tube, and an actuating member eccentrically disposed to a free end of the end plate and rotatably received in an underside of the contacting member.
Claims8
A door damper comprising:
- a base having a first ball member rotatably received therein, said first ball member having a neck extending radially therefrom;
- an outer tube having a first end connected to said neck and a plurality of first holes defined therethrough;
- at least one inner tube retractably received in said outer tube and having two second holes defined diametrically opposite therethrough near a first end thereof, a first slot defined in a periphery thereof near a second end thereof and two third holes defined diametrically opposite therethrough wherein said first slot is located between said two third holes along a peripheral surface of said inner tube;
- a spring member urgedly received in said inner tube and having two studs extending therefrom so as to extend through said second holes and said first holes to position said inner tube;
- a handle having an end plate extending transversely from one of two ends thereof, said end plate having a fourth hole defined therethrough and an actuating member pivotally connected to a position above said fourth hole, said end plate inserted into said first slot and a pin extending through said third holes and said fourth hole, and
- a contacting member having a first end received in said second end of said inner tube above said actuating member and a second end for securely contacting an inner side of a door, a free end of said actuating member pivotally connected to said first end of said contacting member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.