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    This document discusses six types of special purpose doors used for large openings such as in hangars, garages, and buildings. The six types are: 1) horizontally sliding doors, which ride on wheels and tracks; 2) telescoping doors, made of parallel leaves that slide in tracks to open; 3) folding doors, used for wide openings and requiring only one track; 4) vertically sliding doors, similar to ordinary doors but larger; 5) swinging doors, which can be double or have multiple leaves; and 6) top-hinged doors, used for large craneway openings and sometimes combined with horizontally sliding doors below.

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    This document discusses six types of special purpose doors used for large openings such as in hangars, garages, and buildings. The six types are: 1) horizontally sliding doors, which ride on wheels and tracks; 2) telescoping doors, made of parallel leaves that slide in tracks to open; 3) folding doors, used for wide openings and requiring only one track; 4) vertically sliding doors, similar to ordinary doors but larger; 5) swinging doors, which can be double or have multiple leaves; and 6) top-hinged doors, used for large craneway openings and sometimes combined with horizontally sliding doors below.

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    This document discusses six types of special purpose doors used for large openings such as in hangars, garages, and buildings. The six types are: 1) horizontally sliding doors, which ride on wheels and tracks; 2) telescoping doors, made of parallel leaves that slide in tracks to open; 3) folding doors, used for wide openings and requiring only one track; 4) vertically sliding doors, similar to ordinary doors but larger; 5) swinging doors, which can be double or have multiple leaves; and 6) top-hinged doors, used for large craneway openings and sometimes combined with horizontally sliding doors below.

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    Types of Doors

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    Abirami Chokkanathan
    This document discusses six types of special purpose doors used for large openings such as in hangars, garages, and buildings. The six types are: 1) horizontally sliding doors, which ride on wheels and tracks; 2) telescoping doors, made of parallel leaves that slide in tracks to open; 3) folding doors, used for wide openings and requiring only one track; 4) vertically sliding doors, similar to ordinary doors but larger; 5) swinging doors, which can be double or have multiple leaves; and 6) top-hinged doors, used for large craneway openings and sometimes combined with horizontally sliding doors below.

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    SPECIAL-PURPOSE OF DOORS

    Door have to be specially designed for opening larger then those for which ordinary doors are available. Larger doors may be required for airplanes hangars garages and craneway openings in walls and for subdividing, gymnasium and auditoriums. Not only most of the doors be designed for the openings but also the structure around the openings must be designed to accommodate the doors. Types of doors used for special purpose generally are much the same as ordinary doors except for size and weight. MAINLY THERE ARE SIX TYPES OF SPECIAL DOORS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

    HORIZONTALLY SLIDING DOORS TEIESCOPING DOORS FOILDING DOORS VERTICALLY SLIDING DOORS SWINGING DOORS TOP HINGED DOORS

    HORIZONTALLY SLIDING DOORS


    Because of their weight, horizontally sliding special purpose doors are usually supported on bearing type wheels and ride rails set in the floor. For stability , the doors are also equipped with top rollers that operates in overheads guides.

    TELESCOPEING DOORS
    Telescoping doors are used at large entrance, for example, for airplanes hangers. Built of wood, steel or a composed of several parallel leaves, each of which moves in a separate track the doors may be opened by moving all the leaves in one direction or they may be center parting, with leaves moving in opposite directions often the doors are operated by motors that which drive an endless chain attached to the top of one leaf.

    FOLDING DOORS

    Folding doors are used at entrance with very wide openings, such as those for hungars, or for dividings large rooms, such as gymnasiums, auditorium, into smaller rooms. The main advantage of folding doors over telescoping doors for large openings is that folding doors required only one top and one bottom track track or guide channel, regardless of the width of openings. Each leaf of telescoping doors, in contrast, requires less materials for rails, guide channels and supporting members.

    VERTICALLY SLIDING DOORS


    Special purpose vertically sliding doors are similar to ordinary doors that operates in the same way, except for size and weight. This type of door is suitable for high openings, when space is available above and below them into which door leaves can be moved.

    SWINGING DOORS
    Special purpose swinging doors are used in a much wider variety of forms then ordinary swinging doors often, special purpose doors are double swing, with hinges on both jambs; twofold, with a vertical hinge on one jamb and another verticals hinge between two leaves, so that the leaves fold when the doors opens; or fourfold, which is center parting and each half is twofold. Such doors may be used instead of sliding doors when there is insufficient space around openings for storing open sliding doors.

    TOP-HINGED DOORS
    Doors with horizontal hinges at the top are often used for craneway entrance to buildings. This type of doors has been employed for openings more then 100 ft wide and from 4 to 18 ft high. To increase the depth available for openings, horizontally sliding doors sometimes are placed under top hinged door. In such cases, the top guides for the sliding doors aer placed along the bottom of the upper door. Hence, when the doors are closed, the sliding door must be opened before the top hinged door. Closing must proceed in the reverse order.

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