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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7975352 | Access door lever The Access Door Lever is a device which provides an easier way to open a door with a traditional doorknob. In one embodiment, the invention will fit over a traditional doorknob, snap in place with finger-like extensions, which will grip the doorknob. The extension i... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7640630 | Refrigerator A refrigerator capable of saving time and labor for mounting a handle to a door is disclosed. The refrigerator has a main body including a storage compartment opened toward the front, a door mounted to the main body to open and close the storage compartment, a handl... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7357467 | Door assembly for use in a home appliance A door assembly is made up of a door provided in a cabinet of a home appliance, such as a dishwasher, and a door handle for operating the door. The door assembly includes a door, installed in the cabinet, having an exterior surface; a door handle, affixed to the doo... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7219394 | Door push bar structure A door push bar structure includes a mounting mechanism having a locking element with a stopper, a sleeve screwed at an end to the locking element, and a locating element, the stopper and an end of the locking element screwed to the sleeve being located in a through... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7207088 | Door hook with removable spacer A door hook including a U-shaped bracket having a top member and a front side and back side attached to the top member. The front and back sides are separated by a first distance, which corresponds generally to the thickness of a door over which the door hook is to ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201406 | Adjustable handle assembly A device for operating a lock assembly for a door or window assembly has a first configuration when mounted in a right hand door and a second sonfiguration when mounted in a left hand door. The device has a handle having a first position and a second position. A mem... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197792 | Door handle for refrigerator The present invention relates to a door handle for a refrigerator. According to the present invention, a bar holder 41 of a door handle 40 includes a fixing portion 42 fixed to a front surface of a refrigerator door 30 and a coupling port... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7107651 | Handle applied in bathroom A handle applied in bathroom and fixed on the wall. The handle is composed of a handhold pipe, a garnering rack, several supporting rods and covers, a middle positioning body and two side positioning bodies. The handle pipe is a hollow tube and holes sit at the midd... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7089629 | Mounting structure of an inner handle for a vehicle A mounting structure of an inner handle for a vehicle having an inner handle serving as an emergency hammer to break or smash the windows of a vehicle in the event of the emergency. The mounting structure of the inner handle includes an inner handle having a grabbin... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7051780 | Latch assembly for a bifold cockpit door A latch assembly is provided having a deadbolt rod assembly, and a first lock actuating means for moving the latch assembly between an unlocked position, wherein the deadbolt rod assembly is in a retracted position and a locked position, wherein the deadbolt rod ass... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7043799 | Sanitary door opener A sanitary door opener in the form of an attachment to the bottom of a conventional door enables a user to pull open the door by engaging the attachment with his/her foot or shoe, thereby preventing hand contact with the door opener. The sanitary door opener prefera... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043800 | Sanitary door opener A sanitary door opener in the form of an attachment to the bottom of a conventional door enables a user to pull open the door by engaging the attachment with his/her foot or shoe, thereby preventing hand contact with the door opener. The sanitary door opener prefera... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7003917 | Lift handle for products having a nailing fin A lift handle for building systems such as door assemblies and window assemblies. The handle comprising a flange and a channel disposed proximate the flange. The flange comprises a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is adapted to be coupled with t... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000958 | Assist device for a door handle and latch assembly An assist device for a door handle comprises an elongated bar which has one end pivoting about a pivot pin and another end receiving a pivot piece therein. The parts interact to produce a tight looking, attractive, easy-to-assemble, and sturdy device with no sharp p... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6966101 | Handle of a glass door A handle of a glass door, which is made of such materials as to match glass, e.g. acrylic, includes handle parts, and metallic connecting blocks; each of the handle parts has two folded ends formed with connecting tail end portions; each of the metallic connecting b... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6959468 | Vent adjusting apparatus A vent adjusting apparatus for opening and closing air vents of a recreational vehicle includes a handle provided with a first adapter attached to one end portion thereof. The first adapter includes a groove that has first and second bores oppositely spaced for enga... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6769154 | External door handle mainly intended for vehicles The present invention relates to an external door handle that comprises a bracket-shaped handle (10) comprising a cavity (14) which is defined by at least one U-shaped shell (21, 22) and which is intended for receiving electronic components (... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6751827 | Door knob handle A new leaver's attachment to a conventional round or oval shape type door knob, an effect for easy turning of any round or oval shape of knobs, the easy to install and remove attachment is for use primarily or portably by disabled persons and child to open a door. | 06/22/2004 |
| 6745437 | Valve cover A cover is provided, preferably for securing valves, propellers, door knobs and the like. The cover entails a hinged plate having two sections. Each section contains an indentation which, when the sections are closed, forms an aperture. A pair of arms may depend fro... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6669241 | Door latch opening system A door latch opening system for providing efficient and convenient opening of a door latch. The door latch opening system includes an engaging member have a broad engaging area, a receiver member attached to the rear portion of the engaging member, and a ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6578235 | Universal inside-outside door handle A handle assembly, particularly adapted for a sectional door panel includes identical handle parts each having a grip portion and spaced apart transversely extending legs. One of the legs of each handle part has an elongated shank extending therefrom and ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6543089 | Door handle assembly and door assembly including the same A door handle assembly includes a first handle and a second handle. First posts are rotatably secured to the handles, and second posts are non-rotatably secured to the handles. A threaded rod is threadably engageable with internally threaded bores formed ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6447031 | Lever handle for attachment to a round door lock handle A device for attaching to a door knob which comprises a metal strip which has an arced width which clamps on to two peripheries of the door knob and which arced surface is also curved to encircle and contact 90% of the door knob diameter and which curved ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6439626 | Actuating device for a door lock with a hinged handle, especially for a vehicle lock An actuator for a vehicle door lock has an exterior handle with a flap and an inner support on which the flap is pivotally supported. The flap has stays with connecting points penetrating an opening in the vehicle door. A first connecting point has a pivo... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6390521 | Doorknob handle A doorknob handle assembly for retrofitting conventional rounded doorknobs, a kit for the doorknob handle's installation, and a method for using the kit to install the doorknob handle are described. The doorknob handle assembly has a doorknob handle in th... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6353971 | Touchless door pull apparatus Touchless door pull apparatus comprising an engagement slot on a door, and a cooperating hand tool. The slot and hand tool are cooperatively configured such that the hand tool can be engaged with an engagement surface associated with the slot, temporarily... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6345416 | Detachable, auxiliary car door handle A detachable, auxiliary car door handle comprises an intermediate grip (16) and end clips (18) adapted for selective attachment to the edge of a door to facilitate opening.... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6298521 | Door knob sanitizing device A housing containing a sublimable disinfectant with the housing having an adhesive on the rear end for securing the housing to the backing plate behind a door knob. The housing has circumferential slots in the front end thereof so that the sublimed disinf... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6289557 | Sanitary door handle assembly A sanitary door handle assembly which can be readily engaged by the inner curvature of a person's wrist or forearm so as to permit hands-free inward opening of a door for sanitary passage, followed by passive, easy release. A mounting arm supports an arcu... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6282753 | Easy maintenance flush mount door handle A flush mount door handle recessed within a door frame. The door handle is set in a box type configuration. The door handle has a bottom support member that extends at an obtuse angle from the back wall and a pull member that does not come in contact the ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6154928 | Gripper adapter for doorknobs A device facilitating operation of a doorknob, comprising a tubular body member having a continuous wall with an outer gripping surface and an inner surface defining bore adapted for receiving the doorknob. A plurality of resiliently deformable projection... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5890261 | Door handle bases for mounting door handles to doors The present invention provides door handle bases for use in mounting door handles to doors. The door handle base has a base plate having a door handle side and an opposite door side, and a pair of tabs attached to the base plate. The pair of tabs are spac... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5713614 | Door latch handle extension and method of improving a door latch assembly A flexible handle extension for a pivoted handle of a light-duty door latch assembly of a screen door and the like and a method of substantially reducing an opening force required to unlatch the assembly from the door jam. The handle extension includes an... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5659927 | Refrigerator door handle A refrigerator door handle including a pull handle and an integral one piece extruded plastic handle cover having handle extensions on opposite ends thereof, the handle extensions having legs thereon for securement to the refrigerator door. In another emb... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5638906 | Safety improved fire equipment access panel A cabinet structure for a fire extinguisher has a glass door mounted in a frame. The glass is tempered glass, which shatters easily into small pieces upon cracking a portion thereof. A steel breaking lever is attached to an edge of the glass. When the bre... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5638576 | Door knob lever A door knob lever is described, for use primarily by disabled persons, as including a rotatable hook at one end thereof for hooking around the base of a common door knob. A right angle or arcuate shaped bracket is also included, with the rotation of the h... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5402553 | Refrigerator door handle and method of attaching A refrigerator door handle and a method of attaching the handle to a door panel. A door handle retainer strip includes an elongated channel having a shoulder opposite a laterally extending longitudinal groove. After the retainer strip is screwed to the do... | 04/04/1995 |
| 4922576 | Handle for appliances A two-piece door handle for refrigerators and freezers is mounted on the edge of the doors by two fasteners. The handle includes a plastic molded part and a metal stamping. The plastic molded part provides a recess in which the entire metal stamping is po... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4912809 | Tandem cone bolt anchor mounting assembly The present invention comprises an improved mounting device incorporating two set screws acting upon two separate axially spaced-apart conical portions of an anchor bolt to produce a lateral "wedging" force which anchors the door handle securely in place ... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4817239 | Door hook A sanitary door opening assembly (10) comprising a U-shaped bracket (12) disposed around the outer edge (20) and sides (14,15) of a door (16). A hook (24) is mounted to the U-shaped bracket (12) and door (16) by fasteners (52). The hook (24) is defined by... | 04/04/1989 |
