Kissing Gate
A Kissing Gate ( Engl. For "kissing gate") is a primarily British enables door construction, the pedestrians to pass through a barrier, but the cattle holding back. There is no German term for it.
construction
A kissing gate has a fixed border on one side, the so-called basket. The basket can be V-shaped, rectangular, trapezoidal or semicircular and is dimensioned so that pedestrians can fit in, but grazing animals cannot. A movable gate element is attached on the opposite side, which extends straight to the ends of the basket and can be pivoted back and forth within the basket.
To cross the Kissing Gate, one enters the basket, swings the gate to the opposite stop and can leave the basket on the other side.
The name is based on the fact that the pivoting gate wing only touches ("kisses") the two stops without engaging.
advantage
The advantage over other gate constructions, such as a cattle gate , is that the kissing gate is impassable for the cattle in every condition, as the animals cannot fit into the basket and also cannot wriggle around the gate element in the middle position. A kissing gate does not know a "closed position" and therefore cannot be left open accidentally.
distribution
Kissing gates are particularly common in the UK , where public footpaths often cross pastures. They are recorded in the British Standards : BS5709: 2006: Gaps, Gates & Stiles ISBN 0-580-48107-7
- Kissing Gates
Wooden kissing gate on a footpath in Scotland
Metal kissing gate
Double kissing gate at a fork in the fence
Wooden kissing gate at Colvithick Wood
