swinging doors
Push both ways
Swinging doors are doors hinged to swing in both directions, returning to center when released.
Common in restaurants between kitchen and dining room, they allow passage without using hands: The waiter backed through the swinging doors with a loaded tray.
Also called saloon doors when the shorter, Western-style type.
- saloonsPublic drinking houses
- batwingWide sleeve narrowing at wrist
- Wild WestAmerica's lawless frontier era
- hingesSwinging joint hardware
- exitsDeparture points
tavern · entrances · double-action · in and out · service areas · historical architecture · pivots · panes · flexible · dampers · butler's pantry · public restrooms · office partitions · waiters · transience · Old West · aluminum alloys · tension rods
- frontier towngeneral store, saloon, sheriff's office, livery stable, hitching post
- saloonspittoon, cuspidor, bar stools, barstool, beer tap
- saloonsbarroom, bartender, barstool, whiskey, bourbon
- tavernstavern keeper, taverns, tavern sign, tavern wench, inns
- Cantinabar counter, bartender, cerveza, margarita, mezcal
- pubstavern, pub, barroom, alehouse, public house
swinging doorssliding doors
Panels moving on tracks
pocket doors · revolving doors · barn doors · garage doors · automatic doors
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