Piston door stop

• US 5,761,766 A
• Filed: 01/15/1997
• Issued: 06/09/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William E. Basham
• Original Assignee: William E. Basham
• Inventors: Basham, William E.
• Primary Examiner(s): MAH, CHUCK Y
• Application Number:
  US08/784,123
• Time in Patent Office: 510 Days
• Field of Search: 16/85, 16/82, 16/86 R, 16/86 A, 292/181, 292/DIG. 15, 292/341.12
• US Class Current: 16/85
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 5/06 Buffers or stops limiting opening of swinging wings, e.g. floor or wall stopsE05F5/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 5/08 with springs
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/212 Buffers
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/264 linear

Abstract

A piston door stop comprising a hollow first shaft, a hollow second shaft which partially contains said first shaft, a spring, a base screw, and a rubber cap. The spring extends through the bore of both shafts. The first shaft, second shaft, spring, and the rubber cap are coaxial. The door stopper is screwed into a wall via the base screw such that a bottom surface of a head of the base screw is in contact with the surface of said wall. A swung door first hits the rubber cap which covers the second shaft. The force is then transmitted to the spring which is contained within the two shafts, such that the second shaft moves along the first shaft towards the wall, compressing the spring which is contained within both shafts; thus causing the spring to absorb all of the energy transmitted from the swung door.

Claims

1. A door stop, comprising:

a) an attachment mechanism to secure said door stop to a wall;

b) a first shaft having a first shaft inner surface, a first shaft outer surface, a first shaft bottom end, a first shaft top end, a first shaft top surface, a first shaft bottom surface, and a first shaft bore extending from the first shaft top surface towards the first shaft bottom surface, the first shaft bottom surface is attached to the attachment mechanism;

c) a second shaft with a larger diameter than the diameter of the first shaft, said second shaft having a second shaft inner surface, a second shaft outer surface, a second shaft bottom end, a second shaft top end, a second shaft top surface, a second shaft bottom surface, and a second shaft bore extending from the second shaft bottom surface towards the second shaft top surface, the diameter of the second shaft bore is greater than the diameter of the first shaft, the second shaft bottom end envelopes the first shaft top end; and

d) a spring which is longer than the first shaft having a spring top surface, a spring bottom surface, a spring upper section, and a spring lower section, said spring has a spring winding diameter which is smaller than the diameter of the first shaft bore and smaller than the diameter of the second shaft bore, the spring lower section is located inside the first shaft bore, the spring upper section extends beyond the first shaft top surface and into the second shaft bore, the first shaft, second shaft, and spring are coaxial

e) a locking means for locking the second shaft in place after it has traveled a predetermined distance along the first shaft outer surface towards the attachment mechanism, wherein the locking means comprise a catch having a catch deformed portion and a catch hook portion, the catch deformed portion has a catch deformed portion top end and a catch deformed portion bottom end, a catch deformed portion inner surface, a catch deformed portion outer surface, the catch deformed portion inner surface of the catch deformed portion top end is attached to the second shaft outer surface, the catch deformed portion bottom end extends beyond the second shaft bottom surface and said catch deformed portion bottom end is further distant from the second shaft outer surface than the catch deformed portion top end, the catch hook portion has a catch hook portion outer end, a catch hook portion inner end, and has a greater length than the distance between the second shaft outer surface and the second shaft inner surface, the catch hook portion outer end is attached to the catch deformed portion bottom end so that the catch hook portion inner end is forced into a first shaft groove in the first shaft outer surface, said first shaft groove extends along the first shaft outer surface, has a groove top end, and a groove bottom end, the catch hook portion inner end is caught in a slot in the first shaft bottom end directly below the groove bottom end.

2. The door stop as in claim 1 wherein the attachment mechanism consists of a base screw having a base screw head portion and a base screw threaded portion, the base screw head portion has a base screw head portion bottom surface, and a base screw head portion top surface, the base screw head portion top surface is attached to the first shaft bottom surface, said first shaft, second shaft, spring, and base screw are coaxial.

3. The door stop as in claim 2 wherein the first shaft bottom surface is welded to the base screw head portion top surface.

4. The door stop as in claim 3 further comprising a rest having a rest head portion, and a rest threaded portion, the rest head portion has a rest head portion top surface, a rest head portion bottom surface, and a smaller diameter than the first shaft bore, the rest head portion is contained within the first shaft bottom end, the rest head portion bottom surface is flush with the first shaft bottom surface, the rest threaded portion extends beyond the first shaft bottom surface and is screwed into a base screw head portion threaded bore in the center of the base screw head portion, said base screw head portion threaded bore extends from the base screw head portion top surface towards the base screw head portion bottom surface, the spring bottom surface which is contained within the first shaft bore and within the second shaft bore sits on the rest head portion top surface, the first shaft, second shaft, spring, base screw, and rest are coaxial.

5. The door stop as in claim 2 further comprising a cap covering the second shaft top end, the first shaft, second shaft, spring, base screw, and cap are coaxial.