Swing gates: device and varieties (26 photos)

Known since antiquity, swing gates traditional for many countries are easy to manufacture, reliable and very convenient. Their relatively simple, time-tested design provides a minimum of elements and ease of installation, and uninterrupted operation, which consists in swinging open and returning to the initial position of the wings, is guaranteed to last for many years. In addition, good gates open silently and smoothly, even if their wings reach a width of five meters and one ton in weight!

Kinds

The numerous types of swing gates fall into two main categories, depending on whether the automation for swing gates is installed:

• Automatic
• manual mode.

Each category, depending on the direction of use, is further classified into:

• street swing gates;
• garage swing gates;
• swing gates for giving, etc.

The installed automation for swing gates is appropriate mainly where the entrance is for a car for which remote control is desirable.

According to the materials used in the manufacture of such gates, they are divided into such common types as:

• swing gates from profiled sheet;
• wooden gates;
• metal rolling gates.

Gates made of wood are not so common, but in their design the frame and supporting elements are made of metal, and the wood goes only to the sash lining.

In addition, iron or steel gates can be of such modifications as:

• welded swing gates;
• hinged forged gates.

Forging, unlike affordable welding, allows you to create real works of art with decorative design of the wings.

Rules for installing swing gates

First of all, the installation of swing gates depends on their purpose: installing a gate just to enter the territory is different from a installation where the opening has height restrictions (for example, a garage).

The oar gate construction providing entry provides for the preliminary installation of support pillars, the base of which is deepened by at least one meter, concrete and reinforced.

A foundation is needed for swing gates, ensuring reliability and durability of the entire swing gates.

Pillars

The columns on which the sashes will be suspended are made of such popular materials as:

• a rock;
• brick;
• a profile metal-coated pipe with an anticorrosive composition with an optimal cross section of 10 by 10 centimeters;
• hardwood timber;
• concrete - cast or purchased ready-made.

If you plan to install swing frames on brick poles, the brickwork is connected with cement mortar.

Rectangular or square-shaped frames are also either purchased ready-made or welded to order or on their own.

Installation Nuances

Regardless of who installs the swing gates, whether a professional master or the owner himself, one should be especially attentive to the serviceability of the hinges, awnings and sash frames: at the end of installation work, they must be adjusted neutrally.

Neutral will be the state of the valves, which remain exactly in the position in which they were left, and do not tend to slam or open on their own.

When choosing a drive model, one should not only take into account such basic characteristics of the flaps as dimensions and mass, but also the possible wind force that will affect the flaps.

Is it possible to make swing gates with your own hands?

Ready-made models may not suit the price, so many owners of private houses and cottages are thinking about how to make swing gates with their own hands, so that they look no worse than industrial ones.

The simplest hand-made option is to use ready-made options made from corrugated board and automate them, i.e. equip with a homemade lever device.

However, in order to fully perform beautiful automatic swing gates with your own hands, you will need special equipment, for example, welding.

It is difficult to do without welding operations when installing frames from a metal pipe with a profile of 60x30x2 millimeters, usually coated with zinc coating.

After welding, the metal surface is cleaned, ground and treated with polymer anti-corrosion compounds.

Finished frames are filled with canvases, which can be made of materials such as:

• Rabitz;
• corrugated board;
• forged lattices or openwork forging;
• wooden boards;
• Sheet steel.

Sash canvases can be decorated with art forging, drawings or relief ornaments.

Prepared sashes are mounted on mounted support posts using hinges.

If automation is required to be installed on the swing gates, with the help of which remote control of the process of opening and closing the shutters will be carried out, the gates are equipped with electric power drives designed for specific climatic conditions.

Features of swing gates

The design, which is supplied with some gates, allows them to open in both directions.

Modern swing gates have ample opportunities for their modernization: for example, they are equipped with a drive for swing gates, powered by a 24 V power supply. Thus, their functionality and ease of use immediately increase.

Also, for greater convenience, they connect the entrance to the site with the entrance, installing oar metal gates with a gate built into a single frame.

In order for, for example, swing gates from corrugated board to open easily, it is necessary to properly adjust the automatic door mechanism, since the comfort and duration of operation of the door depend on its quality.

Features of automatic swing gates

Gates for the house or country, on which the remote control is installed, open with the help of electric current.

Swing type gate systems use two main types of power drives:

• lever;
• linear.

Both types can be independently copied to automate the gate with your own hands.

In addition to comfortable operation, a comprehensive automatic device provides the gate with:

• longer operation of their suspension support system;
• stability and uniform distribution of load on the supporting frame;
• protection against sudden closing of the wings, especially with their impact.

The sets of mechanical drives and sensors that ensure the automatic opening and closing of swing gates can be freely purchased at a specialized store and retrofit your swing gates with a wicket.

Automation systems for swing gates in design and technical equipment are:

• protozoa, involving human control over the safety of an automated process;
• difficult to arrange.

In the case of complex systems, automation is additionally equipped with infrared position sensors, an owner identification system and devices that provide protection against mechanical damage.

Advantages and disadvantages

The gates, regardless of whether the automatic equipment for swing gates is installed on them, or if they are opened manually, can be supplemented with a human entrance, for example, swing gates with a built-in gate, or improve in different ways, such as, for example, swing gates, not freezing in the winter.

Garage swing gates are insulated by installing sandwich panels, for simply swing gates providing entry into an open area, warming is impractical.

Of the shortcomings that can cause the installation of swing gates, there are three main problems caused by the specifics of their opening:

• difficulties with opening in the winter season, - the snow lying in front of the wings will significantly interfere with their movement;
• the need for sufficient space for free swinging of the leaves;
• double-leaf gates will require the installation of a pair of electric drives, and this is two times more expensive.

In order to maximize the comfort of use, in addition to the mechanisms providing automatic opening and closing of the wings, a manual drive and locking devices are still mounted on the gate. Such measures will help protect the owner of the gate from problems with leaving in the event of possible interruptions in electricity.

Ways of using swing gate systems in the interior

So that the swing gates not only fulfill their traditional, restrictive tasks, but also serve as an individual decoration of the private possessions of their owner, the decorative side of the swing system is also scrupulously approached, as well as the technical one.

What to choose? Classics, hi-tech, modern, gothic, art deco, rustic country or maybe baroque? Qualified architects and designers are called upon to professionally help with the selection of suitable design options for fencing the territory. However, the secrets of professionals are in the public domain, so adhering to them, everyone can independently design an individual design for their entrance group, which harmoniously looks against the background of the house and landscape design.

First, you should decide on the design of the input group, which is of three options:

• deaf - the space behind the gate is not visible;
• trellised;
• combined.

With wide financial possibilities, sashes of unusual configurations will look great, completely, tightly forged from metal and decorated with exclusive blacksmithing ornaments.
Heavy, wooden sashes look very stylish, stylized “antique” with chained corners and metal decor (handles, hammer).

The most democratic option will be the option of welded structures made of metal pipes or profiles.

If on the territory, besides the entrance, there are several gates (garage), it is better to keep them in the same style.