Xray Doors |
| Date Added: March 04, 2010 03:01:10 PM |
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| Category: Construction |
| X-ray Doors Where might you find an x-ray door? Both waterproof and lightweight, these doors are often LAMI pressure moulded Glass Reinforced Polyester. The door blades are often seamless with no lippings or laminations. They are quite large and made to specification to fit the place they are going to be hung in. a door like this is only found in a hospital. Well actually, you will find them in some dentists and doctors surgeries too. In fact, they will turn up wherever you can get an x-ray. They are made to do job. They protect people from the x-ray machine (radiation) because to be over exposed can cause a lot of harm. Because that have to do a very important job, they have to be water proof. This ensures that the rays don’t escape through small gaps around the edge. They have to prevent the x-ray penetrating the door itself so this would explain why they have to light as well as effective. Can you imagine how heavy they could be? Plates made from Aluminum. Some manufactures use Alloy or Stainless Steel, Powder coating, Polyurethane foam inside the door. Lead plate inside the door. The width of lead plates about 1mm or 2mm are used to make these doors. They are not just doors; they are a fantastic slice of construction to ensure safety without being big and heavy or unsightly. They can come in a range of styles too. You can have sliding or normal. Windows in then in all shapes and sizes as well as having made to match the decor. x-ray’s date back as far as the early 1800’s. It was some time later that these experiments were perfected so it would seem that long term exposure and the long term damage may not have been fully understood for some time. This would therefore suggest that x-ray doors would have come along a little later on. They would have been big and heavy and not all that pretty in the beginning. Perhaps aprons were more popular but as with any medical pivotal moment in time, the rest will follow and so the doors we see today were born and hospitals don’t look as daunting as they perhaps once did and of course, they are safe.. |
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