Device for the automatic treatment of the air in an enclosed space having a door

• US 3,273,756 A
• Filed: 02/09/1965
• Issued: 09/20/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harry M. Durst, Larry W. Levy
• Original Assignee: Harry M. Durst, Larry W. Levy
• Inventors: Levy, Larry W., Durst, Harry M.
• Application Number:
  US04/431,281
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• US Class Current: 222/180
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/267 by a separate device actuated by repeated, e.g. human, input, e.g. by a moving wing of a door or window, a ringing doorbell, a flushing toilet

Claims

1. A DEVICE OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A PRESSURIZED SPRAY DISPENSER INCLUDING A CONTAINER AND A MEMBER PROJECTING THEREFROM AND MOVABLE TO OPEN AND SHUT THE OUTLET VALVE THEREOF, SAID MEMBER RESILIENTLY BIASED TO NORMALLY MAINTAIN SAID MEMBER IN VALVE-CLOSING POSITION, WITH A STRUCTURE FOR SUPPORTING SAID SPRAY DISPENSER FOR ACTUATION BY A MOVING DOOR, SAID STRUCTURE INCLUDING MEANS SECURABLE ON A STRUCTURAL SURFACE ADJACENT A DOOR OPENING FOR SECURING AND HOLDING SAID SPRAY DISPENSER AND A MEMBER ACTUATING BAR PIVOTALLY SUPPORTABLE BY ONE END IN POSITION TO OVERLIE AND ENGAGE AGAINST SAID MOVABLE MEMBER, SAID ACTUATING BAR ADAPTED TO HAVE ITS OTHER END EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALLY TO A LEVEL WITH THE EDGE OF SAID DOOR OPENING WHEN SAID HOLDING STRUCTURE IS SECURED ON SAID STRUCTURAL SURFACE, SAID BAR HAVING A STIFFLY RESILIENT STRIP SECURED THERETO AT ITS OTHER END AND PROJECTING THEREFROM TO OVERLAP SAID DOOR OPENING WHEN SAID HOLDING MEANS IS SECURED IN SAID POSITION AND TO BE ENGAGED BY SAID DOOR IN ITS MOVEMENT IN ONE DIRECTION FOR INITIALLY PRESSING SAID BAR AGAINST SAID MEMBER TO MOVE SAID MEMBER INTO VALVE OPENING POSITION AND TO BE OFFSET BY FURTHER MOVEMENT OF SAID DOOR TO PERMIT THE MOVEMENT OF THE DOOR PAST IT.