Revolving door

Revolving door

Curtains and draperies

Published in V. Ramesh Babu, S. Sundaresan, Home Furnishing, 2018

It normally has four wings/leaves that hang on a center shaft and rotate one way about a vertical axis. The door may be motorized, or pushed manually using push bars. People can walk out of and into the building at the same time. Between the point of access and the point of exit the user walks through an airlock. Revolving doors therefore create a good seal from the outside and help to reduce A/C and heating costs climate control from the building. This type of door is also often seen as a mark of prestige and glamour for a building and it not unusual for neighboring buildings to install their own revolving doors when a rival building gets one.8

Potential for harvesting electrical energy from swing and revolving door use

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Published in Cogent Engineering, 2018

J.S. Partridge, R.W.G. Bucknall

Within this paper two types of door that are common in the urban environment will be considered, namely swing doors and revolving doors. Swing doors consist of a door leaf that is rotated by a user applying an opening force as they transit the door, it then returns to its initial starting position through a door closing mechanism. A revolving door consists of a number of door leaves attached to a central beam around which the leaves rotate. The user is required to apply a force on one of these leaves to rotate the door through ~180° to transit the door. Unlike with swing doors, the revolving door is not required to return to its initial starting position after the user has transited but can instead just continue to rotate. As such a revolving door does not require a closing mechanism to apply a force to close the door.

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