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Kit for conversion of horizontally hinged door of recreational vehicle to a table

Kit for conversion of horizontally hinged door of recreational vehicle to a table description/claims

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This invention relates to recreation vehicles having externally accessible storage compartments which are closeable by means of a horizontally hinged door.

Recreation vehicles commonly include storage compartments built into the framework of the vehicle such that the compartment is accessible from the outside of the vehicle. These compartments also commonly include a door which is closed for securing the contents of the compartment and which may be opened to provide access to the interior of the compartment. Many of these doors of existing recreation vehicles are hinged along a horizontal top edge of the door to the vehicle body structure. Such doors are opened by pulling the bottom edge of the door outwardly and upwardly about the axis of the horizontal hinge to provide access to the interior of the storage compartment. Maintaining the door open may be accomplished through the use of latches, pins, or other means for temporarily holding open the raised door. Heretofore, such doors have provided no benefit aside from their function of closing off access to the storage compartment with which the door is associated. This function being the primary function of the door has heretofore forestalled proposed uses of the door which are not associated with the opening and closing function of the door.

In accordance with one aspect of the present invention there is provided a kit for conversion of a horizontally hinged door of an external storage compartment of a recreation vehicle to a table, including first and second frame clamps adapted to be mounted to or proximate to, the bottom frame member of the storage compartment in spaced apart relationship to one another along the bottom frame member, first and second door plates adapted to be mounted to the inside surface of the door in spaced apart relationship to one another, first and second length-adjustable elongated stanchions, each having an inboard end and an outboard end, multiple removable fasteners adapted to temporarily secure the first ends of the elongated stanchions to respective ones of the first and second frame clamps, and the second ends of the elongated stanchions to respective ones of the door plates. In one embodiment there is provided carrier means adapted to receive a portion or all of the kit components for storage and handling.

FIG. 1 is a representation of a recreation vehicle having an external storage compartment;

FIG. 2 is a “laid out” representation of one embodiment of a kit embodying various aspects of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a representation of one embodiment of a door frame clamp component of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view of the door frame clamp depicted in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a further bottom plan view of the door frame clamp depicted in FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a representation of one embodiment of the present invention depicting multiple door frame clamps mounted on a door frame of an external storage compartment of a recreation vehicle;

FIG. 7 is a sectional view of a door frame clamp of the present invention as deployed on a door frame of a recreation vehicle;

FIG. 8 is a representation of one embodiment of the present invention as installed on a horizontally hinged door on a recreation vehicle;

FIG. 9 is a top plan view of one embodiment of a door plate component of the present invention;

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