The general size and specification and hardware fittings of glass doors commonly in use.
The thickness and specification of Glass Door
The most common thickness of glass doors is between 4mm-12mm, and there is no fixed standard for width and height. Beware that thicker glass does not mean safer, so it is necessary to choose a reasonable thickness. According to the provisions of the national standards on "ordinary flat glass" and "float glass", the glass door can be divided into the following specifications according to its thickness:
1, Ordinary flat glass is divided into 2mm, 3mm, 4mm, 5mm.
2, Float glass is divided into 3mm, 4mm, 5mm, 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, 12mm.
3, Wired glass thickness is divided into 6mm, 7mm, 10mm,
The glass size is generally not less than 600mm×400mm, not more than 2000mm×1200mm.
Glass door fittings
- A handle is a device installed on a glass door that serves both as an opening and closing fastener. It is commonly made of aluminum alloy, copper, stainless steel, organic glass, and There are variousshapes and sizes for handle to meet different requirements of comfortable texture, reasonable force distribution, and decorative effect, so the selection of material and shape are based on building design requirements with existent ready product or special design one.
- A hinge is the key hardware accessories connecting the door and the door frame, installed on the frameless glass door, and the glass thickness is not more than 5 or 6 mm.
- Glass door lock is different from other door lock. With its lock body and knob separated, glass door lock usually comes in form of a lock box. And sometimes for security, glass door lock can be conecting lock body and knob together, which is determine by the unique characteristics of glass door.
- Because of the special characteristics of the glass material itself, we can not rely on just using hinge connection for glass door and frame as ordinary door does, but using also door clamp with different specifications on both upper and bottom side of glass door, in order to keep it on track and safe.
- Glass door usually using pulley to adjust the height of glass door and make sliding smoothly and conveniently.
- The floor spring is a hydraulic device specially used for glass doors, which uses a worm wheel to press the spring instead of gear wheel or gear rack. The worm wheel can be rotated forward and inward, so the floor spring can make the glass door swing in both directions. The most important thing is that the ground spring can withstand the weight of the glass door, avoid the glass door touching the ground, without extrusion to the glass door.
