09/11/2009 | Knee action grilles for balconies, automated with Dor

The location is Vicenza.
Alberto, owner of a company called ALTES, has turned into one of the most capable top DITEC Experts, specialised both in the installation of industrial and unusual applications.

His workshop, able to carry out fabrication work and door/window installations, has long turned into a minefield of the most varied solutions. Making floor recessed gates, passenger and goods lifts for underground garages, sectional overhead doors of all kinds and applications, has now become part of Alberto's daily routine.
His experience and ability to interpret architects' and designers' requirements, has long been acknowledged in the area.
This is why Alberto is always coming up with novel ideas.

Alberto talks to us about his latest project: knee action automatic grilles, installed on balconies in a modern local block of flats.

The architect wanted to offer the final customer a special solution to furnish balconies: a set of very exclusive wooden grilles, boasting a dual function.
They are innovative and pleasing to the eye, in order to improve the look of the building; when closed, they provide further safety for the flat.

When closed, they look like grilles. Being made of wood, they are not aesthetically invasive, yet they act as a barrier, if used on all sides of the balcony.

Before making the final product, Alberto painstakingly produced a prototype.
He automated his product by using the Dor automation, built its linkages by using Box operating arms, used DITEC motor to automate the up-and-over garage doors, and carried out tests both with the new VivaH electronic panel, suitably modified in its settings, and by loading some weights on the grilles, to check its operation without balancing systems and counterweights.

The tests and the actual operation have proved to be so successful that, with the architect's approval, new, similar projects have been considered, but this time using solid panels to make, when opened, an additional shelter for the balcony.

We congratulate Alberto on his professional skills and on being able to come up with and try out new "automatic" installation solutions.