Miscellaneous

Circa 33 is a restaurant/bar between S.E. 33rd & 34th on Belmont Street.

In the spring & summer months, they like to have tables outdoors behind the establishment near an outdoor barbeque…

We weren’t told, but we suspect that the Fire-Marshall or someone required that they take the padlock lock off the gate for emergency egress.

Wanting to maintain a certain degree of security, they apparently discovered that a panic-device would meet all the criteria for both security and quick exit if necessary.

So we were given the task of devising some sort of means to mount a commercial “panic-device” to a cyclone-fence type of gate.

I had some concerns about having a panic-device constantly exposed to the elements, because quite frankly…

…I doubt anyone designs them with that possibility in mind, since they almost always are installed to the interior of a door.

So as you can see by the photos, we had Schmeer Sheet Metal create a lip that hangs out over the top of the panic-bar. (www. schmeersheetmetal.com)

One of two of our high-tech closing mechanisms that we installed.

Voila!