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HINGED DOOR
SLIDING DOOR
SIMPLIFIED MOBILITY WITH RETRACTABLE DOORS
Sliding doors offer the following TECHNICAL DETAILS: more space and greater manoeuvrability.
Of course you get more usable space and no intrusion into corridors, but if you are a wheelchair user or have difficulties
with manoeuvrability it is clearly much, much easier to pass through a sliding pocket door.
The awkward backward and forward motion needed when using a hinged door is completely eliminated.
This is also the case for anyone using walking aids or indeed blind or visually impaired people, as the danger of the leading
edge is removed.
1. Get closer to the door, lean toward it to held the door handle.
2. With one hand open the door, with the other push the wheelchair backward
3. To allow the wheelchair passage the hinged door has to be completely open
4. Rotate the wheelchair by 180°
5. Go backward through the door thrusting with a hand, with other held the handle to close the door.
Rotate by 180°
6. Go on
1. Get closer to the sliding door and open it
2. Go through and close the door
3. Go on
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