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Walking through this revolving door would be like squeezing between two giant, touching, rolls of paper towels that can rotate on vertical axels. Each “roll” is a cylindrical torus of durable, transparent plastic, inflated with tepid air.
As one walks between the two tall donuts, they conform to
the body, allowing very little air exchange between inside and outside. An imperfect airlock, they would hold in the warm air in the winter, the cool air in the summer and keep clean and polluted atmospheres apart.
A crimped surface structure and motorized rotation would avoid any risk of hug suffocation. Three tori in a row allow simultaneous entrance and exit on either side of the central cylinder.
Clean up your room!
http://www.intel.co...cleanroom/index.htm
Intel cleanrooms contain about one speck of dust per cubic foot. Check out the suiting up procedure on page 2. [Detly, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
The Tori Amos Homepage
http://www.mit.edu/.../nocturne/tori.html
[FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Tori Spelling Fan Site
http://www.celebritycd.com/torispelling/
[FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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This might be good for cleanrooms, like they have
in laboratories for semiconductor fabrication or handling of
vacuum parts. |
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Could you also put sticky tape on the rollers so all the loose lint is removed from your clothes at the same time? |
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And you could use the out-roller to make pasta during the morning *in* rush...and vice-versa. Nice + |
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Coming soon, instead of a pet flap, the draftless door mangle. |
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+ from me. On Friday night I was discussing the very subject of how to stop the cold draft coming into the pub every time somebody came in the door and hey presto! A solution appears. Spooky! |
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Interesting. But I'd worry about stuff collecting on the surfaces, y'know, from the previous passers. |
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+ Pleasant augmentation of the sensation of passage from one environment to another. Birth canal-esque. |
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//stuff collecting on the surfaces//
Yes, this would be a great way to keep OCD folks out of your building. |
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Keeping them clean could be done with washy thingys on
the outside, maybe. |
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(Warning sign which reads)
If you are pregnant, have high blood pressure, or are at all claustrophobic please use entrance to your right. |
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You must be at least this tall to use the revolving door tori. |
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"hmmm, the guy who just went through
these revolving door tori appears to
have sneezed whilst doing so..." |
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I like this. Reminds me of a
schoolmate's design solution for a
new front door. His were not
rotating, were filled with gel, and
required you to crawl through. He
was interested in the metaphorical
re-birth as you leave the house,
and the metaphorical crawling
back into the womb when you
came home. I can imagine a less
literal, but similar effect, with the
tori, possibly in reverse, when you
go to work or shopping. |
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Go to work=crawl into the belly of
the beast. |
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In case of fire, call loved ones, leave final words ... |
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City buses should be equipped with these -- entrance on the front, exit on the back. You stand in the road when you see your bus coming and the rollers suck you in (the bus doesn't have to stop.) The constant influx of new passengers eventually pushes you to the back where you get spat out through the exit rollers. If you aren't home yet, you wait for the next bus. |
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I do have visions of people suffocating due to power outages, but I'd love to see an illustration. |
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homely man squeezes through
*achoo!*
passes through
hot chick squeezes through
"Ew! My makeup!"
passes through, irritable
Business man squeezes through
*smear*
passes through
"Hey! Look at the clown!" |
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Darn, I missed hippo's anno... |
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It sounds like a great door for 2-dimensional people to go through ... wait they just slip under a regular door like "Flat Stanley" (children's book).
Add to the list of those who should use the alternate door to the right: all deliveries, persons wearing glasses or large earrings, persons carrying food or drink, persons who exceed a certain girth.
I think I'd take the alternate, easily identifiable door rather than read all the exceptions. |
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Like the idea, but I keep reading this as a vaguely derogatory comment on Ms. Amos's private life.
[Sorry, UnaBubba, but Beverly Hills 90210 isn't on my radar.] |
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[Gets UB's previously cryptic remark] |
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