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Sustainability:

Economic benefits through convenience

The challenge

In physics, performance is defined as being “work per unit of time”. And it’s a case of making more out of less in the Public Project sector too: dictating our customers’ day-to-day work are tight deadlines, tight budgets and knife-edge costings that leave no room whatsoever for remedial work or, heaven forbid, product complaints. We set ourselves the challenge of placing products in the hands of architects, planners and clients with which they can meet such challenges. FSB has re-evaluated the concept of Public Project hardware and in the process completely rethought its AGL® heavy-duty hardware. At the heart of the solution we have come up with is the convenient integration of all components in two sub-units.

Practice hitherto

A questionable trend has gained credence over recent years: components have been radically simplified so as to reduce the number of individual parts. At the same time, “click-lock mechanisms” on spindles have been launched that can at best be referred to as parts with a bit of a clamping effect. Such solutions have been combined with solid spindles in some cases.
On account of their high manufacturing and assembly tolerances, by turn, half-sets have been fitted with so-called positive mechanisms that primarily serve to hold furniture together and give it some sense of solidity. Whilst this has increasingly simplified assembly routines and brought about an added degree of convenience, the suitability of such hardware for heavy-duty application and, in particular, for fitting to heavy doors has left a lot to be desired, as has the long-term functioning of the hardware.

Our solution

FSB has trodden a path all of its own by distilling all the components encountered in the assembly of heavy-duty rose furniture into two sub-units whilst also taking further novel functions on board.

AGL-Kompaktheit

The male unit in AGL® rose furniture comprises the following components:

  • door lever handle with square spindle
  • baserose with:
    - all components in the AGL® compensating bearing for handle-and-rose assemblies
    - all components in the A/B positive mechanism
    - retention sleeves
    - FSB 1731 cover rose

The female unit is made up of:

  • lever handle with grub screw
  • baserose with:
    - all components in the AGL® compensating bearing for handle-and-rose assemblies
    - threaded studs
    - all components in the rapid clamping mechanism
    - FSB 1731 cover rose

Loose parts are a thing of the past. The same applies by analogy to the FSB 1735 escutcheon set. The technical concept behind AGL® rose furniture minimises the risk of overlooking or losing parts due to there being so many of them. This new, additional AGL® core feature provides a great opportunity for obviating errors at the assembly stage as well as delays or product complaints when a building comes up for acceptance. All parties to the public project business stand to gain as a result. Over and above its proven continuous long-term function, AGL® furniture acquires a further financially quantifiable benefit from the point of view of sustainability.


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