Lower Rolling Hangar Door

A well-designed hangar door system will remain functional in conditions that prevent other structures from moving. Strong winds, heavy snowfall, and power outages that interfere with other structures are easily overcome with a high-quality roll-up door.

Characteristics

A high quality lower roll hangar door is the strongest and most reliable door system available.

Layout Options:

• Flexible and easy to customize for virtually unlimited design options.

• Unlimited size, maximum insulation, truck doors, pilot access doors, air chambers or filter banks, hatches, fairings, glazing, rear panels, unlimited options.

• Manual doors are operated as opposed to electric motors to reduce complexity and cost.

• Electric motor operators can be integrated into your system to meet your specific needs.

Other benefits:

• Lowest life cycle cost for any design.

• Flexible panel operation. The panels do not require any force to move them.

• Long lasting components that require very little maintenance.

Types of Bottom Rolling Doors

All mobile panels

A bottom-rolling hangar door configuration is known as All Moving due to the fact that the panels are not restricted in which direction they slide and are individually operated. This hangar door configuration is typically chosen for applications that require maximum flexibility in larger hangars, allowing for multiple aircraft without the use of stacking pockets. Just move all the panels to the side of the shed that doesn’t need to be open. In northern countries, all mobile configurations may require heated rails.

All hangar doors can be fitted with a variety of options to meet your needs. The doors can be operated manually or with an electric motor. Manual operation is popular in this configuration due to the fact that the operator does not have to push all the panels at once and can push one at a time with almost no effort. If the panel is chosen to be powered by an electric motor, the price tends to be a bit more expensive than the other configurations. Each panel is equipped with a motor and control panel and power is fed to each panel via the trolley duct feed system along each rail. Other options are recommended with that option, such as safety edges along both edges and collision avoidance limit switches on each panel.

individual stackable panels

Simply stackable bottom sliding hangar doors that can be installed in virtually any type of building to save money and space. The single stack door system has been specified for aircraft hangars, T-hangars, industrial and agricultural buildings and even floating barges! When manually operated, these gates slide in the same manner as all movable gates, except they close in one direction and open in the opposite direction. They are “stacked” at one end, which is recommended to be either a side wall or a section built outside of the building to store the doors while using the full width of the shed for the opening. In cases where space is not available on both sides of the opening, a wall is needed to stack the doors with the door open.

two-part panels

The latest lower roll up hangar door configuration is a very stylish design when space is not an issue. This door configuration strikes in the middle and half of the panels open on one side while the other half open on the other side. This design requires an even number of panels and can be manually operated, but is usually electrically powered, meaning two motors are needed; one for half and one for the other half. This configuration has the same stacking requirements as a single stack configuration, but for both sides. Be prepared to give space to these doors. This configuration really works very well to reduce space inside and outside the building. One example is that instead of 6 panels on their own separate rails, they can now be placed on 3 separate rails, saving the space that the other two rails would take up. This is a game for some hangar owners.

multi-leaf doors

Named in part because of its principle of operation. In southern countries, the rails are protected from ice and snow in cold climates by a pocket built into the building that keeps the rails protected. The rails are also protected by the physical orientation of the panel stack, leaving no exposed rails in the closed position.

The rail layout only affects the location of the rails relative to the building; a north layout can be chosen for Biparting and Single Stack configurations.

South Lane Layout

Named in part because of its principle of operation. The rails remain outside the walls of the buildings because snow and ice are not as much of a concern in the south and the facing of the panels on the outside of the building allows more space to be used for the customer.

Solar Powered Electrically Operated Gates

In some configurations, electric roll-up hangar doors have unique power and control issues, which has resolved these issues with our “solar option”. Solar panels are properly sized and installed on the exterior cladding or door cladding. Plate energy charges a battery installed in the door. The battery bank provides an uninterruptible power source for the motor that opens or closes the gate. The door works normally, even if the power to the rest of the building is cut off! This solar option is available on all the different models of new doors.