Automatic Gates: An Innovation Towards Durability

Automatic gates are being in usage to control the access into a secured area. The most commonly automatic gates are used at the entrance to the facility and are being used in controlling the vehicular access on and off the site.

As for instance an automatic gates are commonly used within the inside area of a parking garage to separate employee parking areas from public areas of the garage.

The varied components of an automatic gate: consist of couple of basic components

·       GATE - The gate is the physical object that is moved to block the gate opening. Most gates are used in commercial application which are made of either attractive iron or either with chain-link materials which are usually designed to match the fencing adjacent to where the concerned gate is being installed

·        GATE OPERATOR - The gate operator is the machinery that moves the gate in and out of the gate opening. The gate operators are electrically powered and might  be chain driven or either gear driven or might be hydraulic depending on the type of the operator

Types of automatic gates: There are six  types of commonly used automatic gates which includes the rank of

1.    SLIDE GATE - The slide is probably the most commonly used type of automatic gate in light duty commercial application. The slide gate is mounted parallel to the inside of the fence and slides horizontally back and forth across the gate opening. As this type of gate use rollers that must be running along the ground, there can be problems with the rollers getting blocked by snow, ice and varied objects. The rollers can also be source of friction, making the particular gate operator have to be working harder to open and close the gate. As of these issues some gate operator manufactures discourages the uses of the slides which has been opined by makers of Commercial Security Gates in Norwich.

 CANTILIVER GATE - It is very much similar to the slide gate, but does not use the rollers that slide along the ground to support it. This particular gate is supported from rails that do run along the inside of the fences structure. This particular gates are suspended across the opening of the particular gate, as of this gates are considered to be much more reliable that the particular slide gate and are commonly used for heavy duty and industrial application and usages. 

3.    SWING GATE - This particular gates are hinged on one particular side and swing open and closed like a door. Swing gates are typically travelling a 90 degree arc between their open and closed positions. Swing gates can consist of a single leaf or double leafs and can be in-swinging or out-swinging.

 VERTICAL LIFT GATE - These gates move up and down vertically over the gate opening. The gates must be lifted high enough to allow vehicle to pass underneath of it.