The extruded aluminum components of commercial entrance systems include stiles (i.e. a door’s vertical members), rails (i.e. horizontal members), and rcs data framing. A single door may be called a leaf, and two doors together are called a pair.
The intersection of the rails and stiles creates a corner that may be:
- constructed with tie rods and shear blocks, as well as corner blocks;
- welded; or
- produced via a now our bed is soooo much combination of methods.
Glass stops in the rails and stiles hold the glass in place.
The framing surrounding an operable door includes a header across the top and jambs along the sides. The hardware attached to these components allows the doors to open, close, and lock.
Thresholds are installed at the bottom of a doorframe to keep mobile lead water and weather out, and to make it easier to transition from one side to the other.
Doors have rails that run between the stiles.
Typically, the bottom rail is 101.6 to 254 mm (4 to 10 in.) high and the stiles are 50.8 to 152.4 mm (2 to 6 in.) wide,
with glass stops supporting thicknesses of 6.4 to 25.4 mm (¼ to 1 in.). The most common configurations are generally
established as standard bundled offerings.