Apparatus and method for covering an opening
OwnerSteven Martin Goldstein, Robert Wayne Vanzeeinventors
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Abstract
A cover and method for covering openings an particularly openings initially intended to cover door knob openings and lock set openings of a modified door which are required to be covered for aesthetic and security reasons. In one embodiment, the cover for a door knob hole is an integral stack of disks wherein the largest outermost disk covers the opening when centered by the second disk that fits snugly inside the opening. A bridge fits inside the lock-set cavity to which a cover over the lock cavity is bolted.
Claims6
A device for covering from view and preventing access from an exterior side of a door to a door knob hole (402) in said door, when said door is closed, said door knob hole opening into a lock cavity in an edge surface of said door and said lock cavity bounded by one wall and an opposite wall, said one wall and said opposite wall having a wall thickness, both walls being a part of a door panel opposite another door panel of said door, said device comprising:
- a disk hole cover (100) including an outer disk (102) integrally formed on a second disk (108);
- said outer disk larger and concentric with said second disk (108);
- said second disk configured to fit snuggly into said door knob hole;
- a threaded bore concentric with and extending through said second disk and partly into said outer disk;
- a threaded stem having one end screwed into said threaded bore;
- means for securing another end of said threaded stem in said door knob hole providing that said disk hole cover is retained with said outer disk flush against said exterior side of said door and said second disk is positioned snuggly in said door knob hole;
- and providing that accessing said door knob hole from said exterior side of said door is prevented;
- a lock cavity panel having the length and width of an opening to said lock cavity;
- at least one bridge including a bridge panel and a pair of legs;
- said bridge panel having a support surface bounded by one straight edge parallel to an opposite straight edge;
- each said leg having one end attached to said one straight edge and extending perpendicularly away from said respective bridge panel in the same direction as said other leg of said pair;
- each leg having a foot on a free end of said each respective leg;
- each leg having a length to permit that, when said pair of legs are positioned in said lock cavity with said foot of each leg supported on a bottom surface of said lock cavity opposite said opening of said lock cavity and with said support surface of said bridge panel parallel to and facing away from said bottom surface of said lock cavity, an exposed surface of said lock cavity panel positioned on said support surface is coplanar with said surface of said edge of said door;
- means for securing said lock cavity cover on said support surface of each said bridge.
A device for covering from view and preventing access from an exterior side of a door to a door knob hole (402) in said door, when said door is closed, said door knob hole opening into a lock cavity in an edge surface of said door and said lock cavity bounded by one wall and an opposite wall, said one wall and said opposite wall having a wall thickness, both walls being a part of a door panel opposite another door panel of said door, both walls having an internal shoulder along longest edges of said lock cavity, said device comprising:
- a disk hole cover (100) including an outer disk (102) integrally formed on a second disk (108);
- said outer disk larger and concentric with said second disk (108);
- said second disk configured to fit snuggly into said door knob hole;
- a threaded bore concentric with and extending through said second disk and partly into said outer disk;
- a threaded stem having one end screwed into said threaded bore;
- means for securing another end of said threaded stem in said door knob hole providing that said disk hole cover is retained with said outer disk flush against said exterior side of said door and said second disk is positioned snuggly in said door knob hole;
- and providing that accessing said door knob hole from said exterior side of said door is prevented;
- a lock cavity panel having the length of an opening to said lock cavity and a width selected to permit support of said lock cavity panel on said shoulders;
- at least one bridge including a bridge panel and a pair of legs;
- said bridge panel having a support surface bounded by one straight edge parallel to an opposite straight edge;
- each said leg having one end attached to said support surface and extending perpendicularly away from said respective bridge panel in the same direction as said other leg of said pair;
- each leg having a foot on a free end of said each respective leg;
- each leg having a length to permit that, when said pair of legs are positioned in said lock cavity with said foot of each leg supported on a bottom surface of said lock cavity opposite said opening of said lock cavity *—and with said support surface of said bridge panel parallel to and facing away from said bottom surface of said lock cavity, an exposed surface of said lock cavity panel positioned on said support surface is coplanar with said edge surface of said edge of said door;
- means for securing said lock cavity cover on said support surface of each said bridge.
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