Door painting bracket

Abstract

A bracket for holding three doors upright while they are being painted. The bracket attaches to the hinge attachment areas of a new door, and stabilizes the doors in a vertical position as they are painted, varnished, or stained, and as the paint, varnish, or stain dries.

1 . A door painting bracket for interconnecting two or more doors to hold said doors spaced apart in a standing, upright position so that the doors will stand in a stable condition with all sides of the doors being accessible for painting, said device comprising:
 a bracket body with three hinge interface plates, with each of the three interface plates connected by bracket arms to said bracket body;   with said three hinge interface plates oriented in different directions and each with at least one screw hole, for use in attaching said hinge interface plate to a door by a screw engaging the hinge attachment location on the side edges of the door.   
   
   
       2 . The door painting bracket of  claim 1  in which bracket body is generally U-shaped, with a hinge interface plate on each arm of said “U” and on the piece joining the two arms. 
   
   
       3 . The door painting bracket of  claim 1  in which said bracket body is generally T-shaped, with a hinge interface plate on each projection of the T-shaped bracket. 
   
   
       4 . The door painting bracket of  claim 3  in which the hinge interface plates on the T-shaped bracket are set at an angle to the T-shaped bracket body. 
   
   
       5 . The door painting bracket of  claim 4  in which said hinge interface plates are set at an angle of approximately 12 to 90 degrees. 
   
   
       6 . The door painting bracket of  claim 5  in which said hinge interface plates are set at an angle of approximately 45 degrees. 
   
   
       7 . The door painting bracket of  claim 4  in which said hinge interface plates are set at an angle of approximately 90 degrees. 
   
   
       8 . The door painting bracket of  claim 4  in which said hinge interface plates are attached to said T-shaped bracket body in a hinged fashion, with the angle to the bracket adjustable by the user. 
   
   
       9 . The door painting bracket of  claim 1  in which said bracket body is an open five-sided structure, with the three hinge interface plates on three sides, and with two sides of the bracket connecting the three hinge interface plates. 
   
   
       10 . The door painting bracket of  claim 1  in which said bracket body has three rectangular sides, with two sides set at an angle to each other and joined along a common edge, and the third side attached to the corners of the other two, with each side having a plane oriented in the same direction as the other sides and with the planes forming a triangular tube, with the third side raised above the other two sides.
 an elongate connecting member;   attachment members connected to the opposite ends of said elongate connecting member, said attachment members having outwardly facing planar faces, with said outwardly facing faces received flatwise within hinge attachment locations on the side edges of the respective doors;   means for attaching said attachment members to said hinge attachment locations on the side edges of respective doors; and   said outwardly facing planar faces of said attachment members being oriented so that planes through said outwardly facing planar faces intersect each other at an included angle of at least approximately 15 degrees and up to 180 degrees.