Door closing mechanism
View Patent ↗A camming member for a door may have a camming surface which lifts the door as the door is traversed from an opened position to a closed position. The lifting movement of the door caused by the camming member facilitates one or more latches used to reinforce a periphery of the door to be engaged without further user intervention.
1. A vertical wall comprising:
a panel fabricated from a plurality of interconnected horizontal and vertical wire rods, the plurality of interconnected horizontal and vertical wire rods arranged to form an opening for allowing an animal to pass through the panel;
a door fabricated from a plurality of interconnected horizontal and vertical wire rods, the door being pivotally hinged to a first vertical wire rod of the panel and traversable between a closed position and a closed position, the door being sufficiently large to cover the opening to block the opening and prevent the animal from passing through the opening of the panel when the door is in the closed position, and the animal being capable of passing through the opening when the door is in the opened position;
a first camming member of a first horizontal wire rod of the door disposed adjacent to the first vertical wire rod of the panel so that a camming surface of the first camming member slides against a camming surface of a second camming member of the panel as the door is traversed from the opened position to the closed position to lift the door upward;
a latch mounted to the panel or door which is traversable from a disengaged position to an engaged position when the door is lifted upward by the first and second camming members to clear the latch.
2. The vertical wall of the claim 1 wherein the panel is one of a plurality of panels that form a pet crate or a play pen for an animal.
3. The vertical wall of claim 1 wherein the first calming member has first and second mounting members, the first mounting member fixedly attached to the first horizontal Wire rod of the door, the second mounting member pivotally attached to the first vertical wire rod of the panel.
4. The vertical wall of claim 3 wherein the second mounting member has a C shaped slot, the C shaped slot having an inner cavity that is equal to or larger than an outer diameter of the first vertical wire rod of the panel so that the first camming member is pivotally hinged to the first vertical wire rod of the panel.
5. The vertical wall of claim 1 wherein the first camming member extends from a portion of the first horizontal wire rod of the door wrapped around the first vertical wire rod of the panel.
6. The vertical wall of claim 1 wherein the latch is an inverted hook, upright hook, inverted tab or an upright tab.
7. The vertical wall of claim 1 wherein the camming surface of the first camming member lifts the door upward to at least a point so that the latch clears a horizontal wire rod of the door or panel.
8. The vertical wail of claim 1 wherein the first camming member is closer to the first vertical wire rod of the panel compared to a free distal end of the door.
9. The vertical wall of claim 1 wherein the second camming member is fixedly attached to one of the horizontal wire rods of the panel and the first vertical wire rod of the panel.
10. The vertical wall of claim 1 wherein camming surfaces of the first and second camming members slide against each other as the door is rotated from the opened position to the closed position.
11. The vertical wall of claim 1 wherein the second camming member is a horizontal wire rod of the panel.