AGL® is the measure of all things on doors and, for decades now, has been a byword for unsurpassed heavy-duty hardware. Not only has it become a benchmark amongst architects, it has also been thrilling fabricators, clients, operators and investors for nigh on 30 years with its well-conceived engineering and durable functioning.
AGL® has now been extensively rejigged by the eastern Westphalian makers of system solutions for doors. The technical core of the compensation bearing hasn’t been touched in the process: permanently enclosing a rotatable handle, it is fitted with low-friction, non-maintenance Teflon-coated bushings and reliably equalises any play in the interaction between door drill holes, lock/lock mortice and hardware. The male and female handle units are physically connected, allowing forces arising to be absorbed by the door leaf. Its 4/EN 1906 user category rating with more than 1 million tested operations is just one of the ways in which AGL® proves its worth.
Over and above these established credentials, FSB’s second-generation AGL® delivers a further raft of benefits for all concerned in the “Public Project” business. The refinement remit had included measurably raising the system’s cost-effectiveness, optimising ease of assembly, remedying one or two functional/aesthetic points and taking account of fire-safety criteria. The upshot was a solution that meets the latest demands in Project work as well as actually setting new benchmarks in the market.
The new AGL® features at a glance:
Rationalised design: AGL® handle/rose sets now comprise just two sub-assemblies completely pre-fitted at the works, those being a pair of door lever handles and a brace of roses. There are no single parts anymore.
Fitted in less than 10 seconds: second-generation AGL® handle/rose sets save an amazing amount of time and hence money at the fitting stage: the sub-assemblies are simply joined together at the door, tightened on the female-handle side using the AGL® tool and that’s it. The work’s over in less than ten seconds.
B type positive mechanism: AGL® furniture now features a positive mechanism with spring pre-tensioning as per EN 1906/Design Type B that spells the end of handle sag.
0° position: AGL® furniture also features a defined 0° stop integrated into the positive mechanism. This guarantees true positioning of the handle at rest. It’s usually the case that the lock spring will push a handle up about 2° above its ideally horizontal position. The AGL® positive mechanism offsets any impact the lock spring might have from the outset and ensures that the handle always comes to rest absolutely horizontally.
Second-generation AGL® liberates clients and architects from the need to make subsequent adjustments and, as of immediately, allows them to set about fitting the hardware considerably more speedily and accurately – not to mention the visual gain achieved through the B type positive mechanism and dependable 0° positioning. Further information on AGL® by FSB is to be found on the web at www.fsb.de/agl and in a free brochure that can be ordered from www.fsb.de.