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Gerard Crennan

Arnold N Anderson

Jacob E Mautner

A double-action hinge for single-hinge top-mounting flexible or semi-flexible doors, of a type mountable on an upright laterally-facing door jamb support, having an axis of hinge-pivot extending uprightly substantially parallel with a mounting door jamb support, with the upper hinge pivot being fixed to a point of and mounting for pivotal rotation as a hinge-mounted door swings to and from in double action through a doorway space framed by a door jamb, and the lower hinge pivot structure being mounted to move freely along an outwardly-extending elongated slot space of a slot-forming lower hinge-support structure permitting a lower end of the hinge axis to move-away from the door jamb support structure when the door swings away from a center position, and an abutting structure having spaced-apart surface portions adjacent the door jamb support structure being mounted on the lower hinge pivot structure fixedly such that the abutting structure turns as the hinge pivots as in opening the door one direction or the other while weight of a hinge-mounted door causes the abutting structure to press toward the door jamb support, with the result that abutting one or the other of the spaced-apart surface portions cause the supported door and lower pivot structure to move outwardly and upwardly when the hinge is swung open, the weight of the door causing the door to swing back toward a centering position, facilitated by one or more coil spring mounted between the rotatable hinge structure and non-rotatable hinge-mounting structure.

Top-mounted double-action door hinge

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, there is provided an air-lock tunnel composed of side and top panels forming a tunnel and swing-hinge-mounted panel doors at each of opposite ends of the tunnel, all panels being refrigeration insulation flexible panels, of which the panel doors are typical in general structure, each panel door being closed-cell rubber sheet sandwiched between sandwiching Nylon sheets each surface-coated with a rubber layer and each rubber-coated Nylon sheet being flexible, having a lower half of the exposed (exterior) surface of the sandwiching flexible sheets covered by an attached bumper or kick guard sheet of thick Nylon fabric having a polyvinylchloride composition plastic coating and having a cut-out groove spaced-from and following the curcumscribing edge thereof in which twisted Nylon thread follows and is recessed within the cut-out groove in the sewn attachment of the bumper sheet to the exposed surface of the flexible sheet, the door having the sandwiching fabric sheets extending beyond the edges of the sandwiched rubber, with the free edges of the sandwiching sheets turned-under and sewn-together as four layers thereby increasing strength thereof and forming a channel receivable of an upper-end support bar and a hinge-side support bar, the upper and side bars being upright and horizontal legs of a right-angle bar of which the upright bar extends through a spring-biased hinge mechanism for centering the door in a closed position normally, the hinge mechanism and structure being mounted on an upright bar which is a part of a u-shaped support structure mounted on a side wall above a door and serving to extend through fabric loops of the panel structures thereby supporting the panel roof and opposite sides of the tunnel.

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Hazlet, NJ, United States of America

Gerard Crennan