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A crash bar (also known as a panic exit device, panic bar, or bump bar) [1] [2] is a type of door opening mechanism which allows users to open a door by pushing a bar. While originally conceived as a way to prevent crowd crushing in an emergency, crash bars are now used as the primary door opening mechanism in many commercial buildings.
Circa 1908, Prinzler, Dupont and the Vonnegut Hardware Company entered into an arrangement providing for the manufacture, marketing and distribution of the patent protected hardware. Under the trade name Von Duprin (a blend of the three principals names, VONnegut, DUpont, PRINzler) the Von Duprin Safe Exit Device, as it was called, was ...
Electrified exit hardware, sometimes called "panic hardware" or "crash bars", are used in fire exit applications. A person wishing to exit pushes against the bar to open the door, making it the easiest of mechanically-free exit methods. Electrified exit hardware can be either fail unlocked or fail locked.
A panic button in an Ola cab in Kolkata, for passenger use. A panic alarm is an electronic device that can easily be activated to request help during an emergency where danger to persons or property exists. It is designed to contact assistance quicker, easier, and simpler (in some cases, less conspicuously) than a conventional phone call.
A panic button is an electronic device designed to assist in alerting somebody (usually the Emergency Services) in emergency situations. Panic Button may also refer to: Panic Button, a comedy starring Jayne Mansfield; Panic Button, a 2007 TV film starring Holly Marie Combs; Panic Button, a British horror thriller
A device made of rigid, heavy gauge wire and designed to fit through the space between double-swinging equipped with panic hardware. [9] Jet-Axe A Jet-Axe was a shaped charge of two to six ounces of RDX, and was used for forcible entry [10] and ventilation in the 1960s and 1970s. Jet siphon
Panic is a sudden sensation of fear, which is so strong as to dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with overwhelming feelings of anxiety, ...
A Town Called Panic (French: Panique au village) is a 2009 internationally co-produced stop-motion animated adventure fantasy comedy film directed by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar from a screenplay co-written by Aubier, Patar, Guillaume Malandrin and Vincent Tavier.