A floor spring is a mechanical door closing device mostly used for glass doors along with patch fitting. Floor springs are mostly used where both pull and push movement is required. The most prominent area where floor springs are used is in Interior doors of a Business park, Malls, Hospital building.
There are many different kinds of floor spring like Heavy Duty Floor Spring, Light Duty Floor Spring, Single Cylinder Floor Spring and Double Cylinder Floor Spring and they have three must-have features in common.
Invisibility
First, Floor Springs are suitable for aesthetic door systems. They must be virtually invisible not to ruin the general look of the whole door. Because the aesthetic factor is necessary, people produce many different types of floor springs to adapt with different types of doors. They can change the material, size or color to achieve a final purpose: its invisibility. However, their features also must comply with standards about size, material to ensure safety.
Adaptability
Floor springs must be suitable for every type of door. There are some materials people usually use to make doors. Glass doors are seemed to be very popular with people. Every house, closed-restaurant, shop, kiosk, supermarket, mall, … uses glass as a popular material for its door system. Besides, we can see that wood is also a favored kind of door material. Another kind of material is Aluminum. Aluminum is a popular, affordable and durable material in use for doors. Nowadays, many researches show that Fiberglass can be the most ideal material. Evidence indicates that doors made from fiberglass have scratch resistance capability for many years. Thus, aesthetic will be enhanced maximally.
Floor springs are especially ideal for big-sized doors. These doors are almost heavy and big. People need more energy to push or pull these doors than smaller doors using door handles. Therefore, selected floor springs must have certain requirements about closing force, closing speed and latch action. To ensure adaptability of floor springs, all these numbers must be adjustable. Besides, they also must comply with pre-registered standards guaranty the quality as well as safety.