Furniture door
A furniture door refers to a movable part of a piece of furniture which closes the body and protects the contents from light, dust, access and mostly sight. They can consist of various materials such as solid wood , wood-based materials , glass and aluminum, as well as combinations thereof.
There are different types:
- Revolving doors
- are attached to the body on their right or left side with straps or hinges . As opening doors, they are all in front of the body. In the case of rebated doors, only the rebate clamp hits the body. Closing doors can be flush with the front edge of the carcase or jump back and forth in front of it; they require additional stops inside the carcase. Revolving doors need space in front of the furniture to open.
- Sliding doors
- run standing or hanging, usually guided by rollers or gliders in rails. You don't need any space in front of the furniture, you don't open up the entire closet at the same time. They can run as a whole in or in front of the body, or as a mixed form in front of the top or bottom and in front of or between the sides.
- Rotating sliding doors
- open like a revolving door on hinged hinges on the side and are then pushed into the body on rails. They stand parallel to the side parts in the body without disturbing the room.
- Folding sliding doors
- are two or more hinged door leaves that can be pushed together in front of the body. This gives you a large opening to the closet.
Other fittings such as locks, bolts and handles are used to operate the furniture doors.
Other ways of closing furniture bodies are flaps and shutters.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Nutsch: Handbook of Construction: furniture and wardrobes (3rd edition), German publishing house, Stuttgart Munich 2003, pages 137-255, ISBN 3-421-03187-8