Product Selection Guide

Shown are two typical inward swinging residential exterior door installations. Open Sesame can be installed on either a leftor right hand swinging door and is easily converted between the two.

Here is a movie demo of a door mounted Open Sesame unit in a home installation.

Lintel Mount

This is a light commercial installation, with outward swinging door. Installed is a Model 200 Operator, which acts like a spring door closer when opened manually. This model is sold in the System IV and System V packages. The pre-existing concealed spring door closer has been disabled.

Another outward swinging door in this example.

This example is a schoolroom door. The door is opened a little more than 90 degrees and the arm is straightened out.

Parallel Mount

In this case the unit is door mounted, but the door is outward swinging. This method requires a special bracket mounted on the top of the door frame. Note the door is open much further than 90 degrees, and the arm is not completely straightened out yet. This mount gives the door the greatest possible maximum opening angle of 180 degrees. The coiled cord is used in these type of mountings because of the wide opening angle.

Here is a movie demo of an Open Sesame gate operator.