Overhead Door Corporation

Viorel Hodis

Federico Romero

A method for replacing a spring in a swing door operator includes releasing a first end of the spring, pivoting the first end with respect to a housing about a spring mount supporting a second end of the spring, and sliding the spring away from the spring mount in a direction extending from the second end toward the first end. The housing encloses drive components of the swing door operator when in an operational configuration.

Swing door operator with offset spring

A swing door operator having a powered driver operable to manipulate a drive unit that rotates a spindle to open a door. As the door is opened, the drive unit compresses a spring engaged with a spring mount that is pivotally connected to the drive unit. The spring mount is pivotable between an operating configuration in which the spring is arranged to be compressed by the drive unit as spindle rotates in the first direction and to expand thereafter to rotate the spindle in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a servicing configuration in which the spring is slidably removable from the spring mount.

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Corpus Christi, TX, United States of America

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