Timeline for Door handle on automatic doors - why?
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| Jan 24, 2018 at 10:49 | comment | added | RobbG | There are handles like this on Brussles underground train system cars, look like ordinary pull handles but they hinge out and trigger the opening mechanism when you pull them. I really like that design of handle as they could also be used in an emergency to just open the door. | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 8:35 | comment | added | Ed Daniel | Here in Finland, they seem to love having pull handles on both sides of the door, whether they're pull or push. Add to that the fact that external doors tend to open outward, as opposed to inward iike I'd expect in the UK, and it drives me mental. | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 8:32 | comment | added | Ed Daniel | @maaartinus Sorry it wasn't clear, ours are regular swing doors with power assist. One or two are fully automatic, the rest have the hand-wave sensors, a <10cm pad on the wall some distance before the door (presumably so it's open by the time you get there with a patient on a trolley?). Either way, looking at the door itself it appears completely manual. You get to it, it doesn't open, therefore it's not automatic, so you grab the handle and push - then the mechanism kicks in and yanks your arm. | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 2:25 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @maaartinus moving it to the left would close it. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 19:59 | comment | added | maaartinus | @EdDaniel So you move it to the left and it moves to the right??? Crazy, if not criminal! It's like car power breaks accelerating the car. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 13:27 | comment | added | Ed Daniel | I've seen doors like this that work very well, and instinctively agree that this is the right solution - if people go for the handle, that should trigger the door mechanism. Having said that, the opening speed/force needs to be about what you'd expect. The doors here in my office (ex hospital wing) are meant to be opened by waving your hand in front of a sensor on the wall but also have grab handles, even on the "push" side (grrr). You push the door open maybe 20cm and then the motor tries to rip your arm out of its socket. It really hurts. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 0:18 | history | answered | maaartinus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |