Door stop beacon

• US 20060208920A1
• Filed: 03/14/2005
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Durowedge By Carrella Inc.
• Original Assignee: Durowedge By Carrella Inc.
• Inventors: Carrella, Kenneth P.
• Application Number:
  US11/079,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20060208920A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/686.100
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 17/10 Illuminating devices on or for locks or keys; Transparent or translucent lock parts; Indicator lights
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 17/54 Portable devices, e.g. wedges; wedges for holding wings open or closed E05C17/047 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/062 indicating emergency exits

Abstract

A door stop beacon comprises a door stop for preventing a door from moving and a lamp connected to the door stop for indicating the door. Preferably, the door stop is a wedge-shaped door chock with a slope upper surface. A switch is placed underneath the slope upper surface so that it can be automatically activated by a pressure applied to the upper surface when the door chock is inserted underneath the door. Alternatively, the switch can be manually activated by a button. Preferably, the lamp is accommodated in a housing having multiple transparent surfaces through which the light of the lamp can passes, so that the light can be visible from various directions. Preferably the lamp is capable of strobing or flashing.

Claims

1. A door stop beacon comprising a door stop for preventing a door from moving, and a lamp secured to said door stop.

2. The door stop beacon of claim 1, further comprising a switch electrically connected to said lamp for turning on and off said lamp.

3. The door stop beacon of claim 2, wherein said switch is manually activatable by a switch button provided on an outer surface of said door stop.

4. The door stop beacon of claim 2, wherein said switch is automatically activatable when said door stop is in its operation position.

5. The door stop beacon of claim 2, wherein said lamp is powered by one or more batteries.

6. The door stop beacon of claim 1, wherein said door stop is a wedge-shaped door chock having a hypotenuse surface, a vertical surface and a bottom surface.

7. The door stop beacon of claim 6, further comprising a switch electrically connected to said lamp for turning on and off said lamp, said switch being located under said hypotenuse surface and is activatable to turn on said lamp under a pressure applied on said hypotenuse surface.

8. The door stop beacon of claim 7, wherein said pressure is applied when said door chock is inserted underneath said door.

9. The door stop beacon of claim 8, further comprising a friction pad mounted on said hypotenuse surface.

10. The door stop beacon of claim 6, wherein said lamp is connected to said vertical surface.

11. The door stop beacon of claim 10, wherein said lamp is accommodated in a housing.

12. The door stop beacon of claim 10, wherein surfaces of said housing comprise transparent lenses.

13. The door stop beacon of claim 11, wherein said lamp or said lenses are colored.

14. The door stop beacon of claim 11, wherein said housing is an extension of said door chock extending from said vertical surface.

15. The door stop beacon of claim 1, wherein said lamp is capable of strobing.

16. A door stop comprising body portion adapted to prevent a door from moving, and a lamp connected to said body portion.

17. The door stop of claim 16, wherein light of said lamp is visible from multiple directions.

18. The door stop of claim 17, wherein said door stop further comprises a housing for accommodating said lamp therein, said housing having multiple transparent surfaces through which said light is visible.

19. The door stop of claim 18, wherein said housing is an extension from a back surface of said body portion.

20. The door stop of claim 18, wherein said housing is formed by a cap mounted on said back surface.

21. The door stop of claim 18, wherein said lamp or said transparent surfaces are colored.

22. The door stop of claim 16, wherein said lamp is capable of flashing.

23. A strobe comprising a lamp secured to a body portion for signaling its position, wherein said body portion is adapted to operate as a door stop for preventing a door from moving.

24. The strobe of claim 23, wherein said body portion is wedge-shaped, with an upper slope surface, a front vertical surface opposite to said upper sloping surface and a bottom surface.

26. The strobe of claim 24, further comprising a housing formed on said body portion for accommodating said lamp, said housing having multiple transparent surfaces in various directions through which light of said lamp is capable of passing.

27. The strobe of claim 26, wherein said lamp or said transparent surfaces are colored.

25. The strobe of claim 25, further comprising a switch for turning on and off said lamp, said switch being located under said upper slope surface whereby it is automatically activatable by a pressure applied on said upper slope surface when said body portion is inserted underneath said door.