Patent Application
20240294199
The technology discussed below relates door carts and more particularly making it easier to remove, store and move the doors.
Many people who enjoy outdoor activities own sport utility vehicles (SUVs) with doors that can be removed in order to give occupants more outdoor pleasure while riding in the vehicle. The doors, once removed, need to be stored in appropriate fashion in order to prevent damage to them. As such doors are relatively bulky and heavy, such storage is not an easy task. Laying the doors on a ground surface is not satisfactory as that can cause damage to the door, especially to its finish. Therefore, some devices are available for storing the doors, but such devices do not offer any purpose beyond this singular purpose and are not otherwise of particular utility when not serving in their intended purpose and are they themselves relatively large and bulky.
What is needed is a device that is designed to easily and effectively hold a vehicle door or hard top that is removed from the vehicle so as to prevent the door or hard top from becoming damaged or removing the hard top for an open feeling. Such devices must be able to easily move about the ground level when the doors or hard top are being held by the devices. Such a device must have substantial utility beyond the task of holding and moving vehicle doors or hard top about so that the device is multipurpose in its functioning. Such a device must provide support for a variety of articles as defined by the users' needs and also be relatively small and compact when not in use for ease of storage or transport of the device.
There is still room for improvement in the art.
The current invention is a new device to hold removed doors from a jeep or SUV in a new and novel way.
The current invention is a new design to a foldable door frame holder cart with a rounded support bar in the middle of a base holding a door frame. The base has a plurality of wheels in the preferred embodiment. The device has adjustable prongs which the hinges of the door frame fit into. The adjustable bracket such as a thumb-turn bracket which can be used to better secure the door frame to the device. The device has door frame guides that extend up from the top of the base.
These are improvements over the current art.
The illustrations presented herein are, in some instances, not actual views of any particular framing devices or components thereof but may be idealized representations which are employed to describe the present disclosure. Additionally, elements common between figures may retain the same numerical designation.
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The door support bars 130 are connected to the support bar 30 by a connection means such as bolts attached to a support plate. The door support bars 130 can adjustable in its placement on the support bar 30 by attaching it at different location. In the preferred embodiment, the door support bars are cylindrical and extend out at angle away from each other at approximate 45 degree angles with two prongs at the distal end that extends 90 degrees up. The prongs may be different lengths with one prong may be shorter than the other. A Door can be placed on each of the prongs. The door support bars 130 can be adjusted to different heights of the door hinges allowing the device 1 to hold different size doors. The prongs can be different heights depending on the doors or items being placed on the cart.
The adjustable door locking bars 140 are connected to a thumb-turn bracket 145 which is connected to the support bar 30 and can move up and down on the support bar 30. In the preferred embodiment, the adjustable door locking bars 140 are cylindrical and have two halves that extend out at an angle away from each other at approximate 45 degree angles with two prongs at the distal end that extends 90 degrees down. The prongs may be of different length with one prong may be shorter than the other.
Each half 10, 20 will have a flat base 70 on its distal end. The distal ends will also be curved in the preferred embodiment with the halves being comprised of bars in the shape of a âUâ. The proximate ends for the halves will connect to a hinged bracket 60. The hinged bracket 60 connects the left half 20 and the right half 10 together to form the base. The left half 20 and the right half 10 can be secured by securing clasps.
The support bar 30 extends up from the base with a curved distal end and two ends that connect to the two hinged brackets 60.
The door frame 100 is slid or place on the flat base 70 between a plurality set of door secure tabs 75 which extend up from the flat base 70 and are space apart with enough space for the door frame 100 to fit between them. The door secure tabs 75 help secure the door frame 100. The door secure tabs are either cover by or made of a soft material like rubber or plastic so the do not scratch the door frame 100.
The device 1 is foldable has shown in
The device 1 latches on to doors 100 by having the top door hinges 120 placed on the prong of the top door support bar 130 and the bottom door hinge 120 placed on the prong of the bottom door support bar 130 as shown in
In an alternative embodiment as shown in
The various features associate with the examples described herein and shown in the accompanying drawings can be implemented in different examples and implementations without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, although certain specific constructions and arrangements have been described and shown in the accompanying drawings, such embodiments are merely illustrative and not restrictive of the scope of the disclosure, since various other additions and modifications to, and deletions from, the described embodiments will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art.
This application is a Continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 17/952,184 filed on Sep. 23, 2022 and claims its priority date and is incorporated by reference.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | 17952184 | Sep 2022 | US |
| Child | 18662893 | US |
