US806459A - Protector for door-casings. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905.

No. 806,459.v

M. A. BROWN. PROTECTOR FOR DOOR OASINGS.

APPLIOATION FILED MAB-.30, 1905.

PATENT canton.

MARION A. BROWN, OF DES MOINES, IO\VA.

PROTECTOR FOR DOOR-CASINGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Dec. 5, lees.

Application filed March 30,1905. $erial No. 252,981.

T0 [t7] w ll/077i, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARION A. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Des Moiues, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Protector for Door-Casings, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to-provide a protector fordoor-ca sings of comparatively simple,durable, and inexpensive construction, which is adapted for use in hotels, where trunks are constantly moved through the dooropenings, and thus obviate entirely the jamming of the door-casings by these trunks, which are handled by careless employees.

A further object is to provide a device of this class which will stand of its own accord in position against the casing of the door and will remain standing until the user removes it.

A further object is to providca fiexibledevice which is adapted for use on casings of various sizes and thicknesses and which is thus constructed not only to protect the doorcasings, but also the rear edge of the door.

A further object is to provide a device of this class which can be used by transfer com panies in moving household furniture.

My invention consists in certain details in the construction, arrangement, and combina tion of the various parts of the device whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accom panying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 shows in perspective a part of the device in position for protecting the door-casings. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the device with a portion thereof cut away to show the way of constructing the device, and Fig. 3 is a detail cross-sectional view of a portion of the device.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference- numerals 10 and 11 to indicate the front and back portions of the protector, the front portion of the protector being that which is away from the door-casing when in use'and the rear portion being that which is adjacent to the door-casing when in use. Sewed to the inner surface of the front portion is a cloth 12, which is stitched to said front portion at a certain number of intervals, so that these rows of stitches are equidistant from each other. This covering is thus secured by the rows of stitches to provide a number of pockets 13, which extend from the lower edge of the front portion 10 to the upper edge thereof. In each of these pockets and extending from the upper to the lower portion of them is a reinforcing stay or support 1 1, which is designed to maintain the protector in an upright position when placed against the casing of the door. The back portion 11 is secured by rows of stitches, which run longitudinally of the device and between the stays 1 1 to the front portion '10 in such a way that there is a pocket 15 be tween the inner portion of the covering 12 and theinner portion of the outside portion 11, into which a padding 16 may be inserted, so as to make the inner portion of the protector soft, and thus obviate any danger of its scratching the door-casing against which it may be placed.

The outer and inner portions 10 and 11 are of some flexible material which will not mar varnished or polished wood when the protector is placed against it, and yet it is of suflicient strength and durability to stand the jamming of trunks against it without tearing or becoming mutilated. The device is made flexible, so that it can be packed into a small amount of space, so that it can be adapted to doors of various sizes, and so that it will extend around the portion of the door-casing which is exposed to injury by trunks passing through this doorway.

Secured to the upper portion and adjacent to the upper edges of the device I have secured the flexible handles 17 and 18, by which the device can be carried from one place to another and also by which it may be hung up.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is-

1. In a protector for door-casings, an outer portion, an inner portion secured thereto, and stays in the protector for supporting-it in position relative to a door-casing.

2-. In a protector for door-casings, an outer portion and an inner portion, and stays for supporting the protector in position relative to a door-casing.

3. In a protector for door-casings, an outer portion and an inner portion, stays for supporting the protector in position relative to a door-casing, and handles secured to the protector.

4t. A padded protector for door-casings, comprising a front portion, a rear portion, and stays secured to the front portion for supto a door-casing, and handles secured to the protector.

7. A protector for door-casings, a flexible front portion, a flexible rear portion secured 5 thereto, stays secured to the front portion, and a padding between the front and rear portions.

MARION A. BROXVN. Witnesses:

V. R. LANE,

S. F. GHRIsTY.

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