PROTECTIVE DEVICE FOR DOOR ASSEMBLY MEMBERS

• US 20190309567A1
• Filed: 04/05/2018
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Endura Products, LLC
• Original Assignee: Endura Products Incorporated
• Inventors: Kendall, Adam, Jaskiewicz, Tomasz
• Granted Patent: US 10,641,032 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/132 Doors
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/148 Windows
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 1/34 Coverings, e.g. protecting against weather, for decorative purposes
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 1/6069 Separate spacer means acting exclusively in the plane of the opening; Shims; Wedges; Tightening of a complete frame inside a wall opening E06B1/6084 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 1/64 by loosely-inserted means, e.g. strip, resilient tongue
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 1/68 by profiled external parts
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/2316 used as a seal between the floor and the wing
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/26 Rain or draught deflectors, e.g. under sliding wings also protection against light for doors
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/28 Other arrangements on doors or windows, e.g. door-plates, windows adapted to carry plants, hooks for window cleaners edge protecting devices for door leaves E06B3/88; special glazing; emergency glazing; double glazing E06B3/66

Abstract

A protective device and method for protection of a door frame member and/or door assembly. The protective device may include a body portion and an adjoining flange portion. The body portion may include a free side and a corner side running parallel to each other and may form an L-shaped device. The flange may include guide slot openings for placement of a fastener through the openings. The body portion may have a substantially planar top and a curved bottom with reduced portions forming attachment areas for securing the protective device removably to a door assembly.

Claims

1. A protective support device for attachment to the bottom of a door frame member, comprising:

a body portion and an adjoining flange portion,

wherein the body portion includes a free side and a corner side running parallel to each other and to an Axis A, the body portion adjoining the flange portion along the corner side, and

at least one longitudinal guide slot spanning from a back of the flange through to a front of the flange, and providing an opening in the flange configured to serve as a guide for placement of a fastener through the openings,

wherein the support device is configured to mate with the door frame member at a corner and is removed prior to installation.

2. The protective support device of claim 1 wherein the body portion and the flange portion adjoin at substantially a 90 degree angle.

3. The protective support device of claim 1 wherein the body portion includes a top and a bottom, the top having a substantially planar surface and the bottom being substantially curved.

4. The protective support device of claim 3 wherein the substantially planer surface includes recesses.

5. The protective support device of claim 4 wherein the recesses recess into an area on the inside of the substantially curved bottom.

6. The protective support device of claim 5 wherein the bottom includes a first ramped end and a second ramped end.

7. The protective support device of claim 6 wherein the substantially curved bottom extends longitudinally along Axis A between the first ramped end and the second ramped end.

8. The protective support device of claim 6 wherein the bottom extends away from the substantially planar surface to form an apex along the most distal part of the substantially curved bottom.

9. The protective support device of claim 6 wherein the first and second ramped ends are tapered toward each other and away from a respective first bottom end and a second bottom end.

10. The protective support device of claim 3 wherein the support device forms an L-shaped support sized to mate with the bottom end of a side jamb.

11. The protective support device of claim 10 wherein the support device body includes a planar top portion and a arced bottom portion with a set of tapered ends that taper inwardly toward one another.

12. A protective support device for attachment to the bottom of a door frame side jamb, comprising:

a body portion and an adjoining flange portion,

wherein the body portion includes;

a free side, a corner side, a first end, a second end, a top and a bottom,

the free side and the corner side running parallel to each other and to an Axis A, the body portion adjoining the flange portion along the corner side,

the top having a substantially planar surface, and

the bottom including ramped ends at the first end and at the second end, and a radiused surface between the ramped ends,

wherein the flange portion includes;

at least one guide slot spanning from a back of the flange through to a front of the flange, and providing an opening in the flange configured to serve as a guide for placement of a fastener through the openings.

13. The protective support device of claim 12 including an inward recess in the radiused surface.

14. The protective support device of claim 13 including more than one recess in the radiused surface.

15. The protective support device of claim 12 wherein the recess forms an attachment area for temporarily securing the support device to the door frame side jamb.

16. The protective support device of claim 15 wherein the recess is a reduced portion.

17. The protective support device of claim 16 wherein the attachment area includes a flat surface between the top and the bottom on which fasteners may be secured and pass through to secure the support device to the door frame side jamb.

18. A method for protection of a door frame assembly member, comprising:

mating an L-shaped protective support device having a body portion and an adjoining flange portion to a bottom end of a door frame member,

aligning the flange portion with an outside end of frame member,

aligning the body portion with a lower end of the frame member,

securing the support device to the door frame member with a detachable fastener,

leaving the protective support device affixed during transport of the support device, and

removing the support device prior to installation of the door frame member in a doorway.

19. The method of claim 18 including using a guide slot to position fasteners to attach the frame member to a threshold prior to removal of the support device.

20. The method of claim 19 including covering the lower end of the frame member with a curved bottom of the body portion.