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Roto NT How windows make your home comfortable, safer and more beautiful Roto NT 1 A window can do a lot more than you would think Windows open up rooms, create an All the tasks of window Roto: Brand name quality from atmosphere and at the same time hardware the inventors of Tilt&Turn form the transparent boundary of the living space. To achieve all this, The hardware is responsible for all a Roto’s founder Wilhelm Frank was not only must they work perfectly, window’s functions: opening, tilt- one of the first people to focus in- they must also have as attractive an ing, locking and controlling various tensively on technology of window appearance as possible. After all, functions for greater comfort and hardware. He became a pioneer windows characterise the ap- security. A window without hard- with the first industrially-produced pearance of every room in the buil- ware would be a motionless frame Tilt&Turn hardware in 1935. Today, ding. You buy windows to last for with a pane of glass. On the other Roto is synonymous with innovative decades. This means that it is wor- hand, the individual components of window technology that’s geared thwhile paying particular attention window hardware conceal state-of- towards comfort, security and de- to the quality of the design and the the-art technology. sign, and the biggest-selling window system. Today’s windows Tilt&Turn hardware in the world. can do a lot more than just open and close – they make your home Your partner for windows and more secure and comfortable, and doors would be pleased to ad- also save energy. vise you. Contact addresses can also be found at www.window- stories.com. 2 Overview Applications 4 Security 6 Children’s room 10 Comfort 12 Design 18 3 Applications Roto has the right solution for every room and to suit all requirements 1 Ground floor: Security Comfortable balcony and terrace doors The freely accessible windows on the ground floor are preferred tar- If the balcony door is open, furni- gets for intruders. Swing hooks, ture and decorations can be dam- reverse-action centre locks, lock- aged by a gust of wind. Balcony able handles and intelligent, elec- doors that slam suddenly leave tromechanical solutions allow behind ugly dark marks on cur- you to incorporate the highest tains. Roto has this base covered level of burglary protection. also, and has developed solutions to tackle it. 2 Living room: Designo 3 Safer children’s rooms The hardware with no visible technology fulfils the strictest de- Children at play can easily open sign demands and, thanks to its windows and put themselves at wide opening angle, allows an risk. With the new “Tilt before uninterrupted view to the out- Turn” technology, Roto offers the side. safe solution for young explorers. When the handle is locked, the window can only be tilted. 4 4 Automatic air exchange, e.g. 5 Ventilation as required in the 6 Greater comfort, for example in the bathroom bedroom in the study When someone takes a shower, When the window is tilted, the Roto eliminates tiresome stretch- the bathroom often becomes room often cools down greatly ing in order to open the window. very humid. Yet in the morning during the night in winter, Wherever a window is difficult to rush, there’s usually no time to whereas in summer the ventila- reach, the Roto comfort window ventilate it. Roto E-Tec Drive al- tion might not be sufficient. An makes operation easy. lows regular, automatically con- additional hardware component, trolled ventilation. Mould has no the arrestable ventilation stay, 7 Sliding windows in the chance. makes the tilt position variably kitchen adjustable. In comparison with a tilted window, these allow wide opening for a speedy exchange of air. They also take up less space when opened: Window sashes don’t jut into the room. 5 Only a secure home creates a sense of security How to make life difficult for This is where the right security tial construction. And at the same the light-fingered technology comes in, because un- time, it imposes strict requirements successful break-in attempts are on the entire window system. Your home should be a place to re- usually aborted after only a few In terms of the hardware, Roto NT lax and feel at ease. But you can minutes. When it comes to security, meets the requirements with only do that if you know that un- put your trust in Roto. aplomb. Even the basic version of wanted guests are being kept out- Roto NT hardware comes with a side. In Germany, a house or apart- Roto provides the best protec- high level of basic security. For ment is broken into every four tion for windows and balcony stricter security requirements, you minutes. Windows and terrace doors should consult your windows ex- doors on the ground floor are par- pert as early as in the planning ticularly vulnerable. The frame or The current security standard for stage. Roto can provide the right the hardware is jemmied out in “burglar-resistant windows and protective mechanisms for precisely around 70 % of burglaries via win- doors” makes a distinction between these applications. dows. three resistance grades for residen- Technical security is the reason why almost half Breaking into apartments of all attempted break-ins fail. via the window. Break-in aborted due to: Jemmied frame Tilted window 12.7% 69.0% Glass broken and Security measures unlocked 9.3% 45.3% Open/unlocked 2.5% Glass shattered 1.6% Other reasons Miscellaneous 4.8% 54.7% Glass cut and unlocked 0.1% Burglars preferred routes Protection made to measure – into single-family houses the European Burglary Resistance Grades Balcony doors Windows Burglary Resistance Grade 1 (BRG1) Basic protection against physical 52.0% 26.5% force, for example kicking and heaving. Burglary Resistance Grade 2 (BRG2) Protection against burglary tools Main doors such as screwdrivers, pliers, and 13.9% wedges. Burglary Resistance Grade 3 (BRG3) Additional protection against tools Basement area Miscellaneous such as crowbars. 7.0% 0.6% 6 7 Security Roto NT: a high level of basic security to the highest protection Even in the basic version, Roto NT 1 Steel hooks for windows and This locking mechanism provides provides a high degree of security balcony doors effective protection against at- and so provides better protection tempts to jemmy out the window against attempted break-ins right The hardened steel hooks engage by forcibly heaving it at the side. from the start. Additional mechani- like swing hooks securely from cal and electronic security elements above or below into the sturdy 3 Security handles can be integrated on an individual - basis – for maximum security and timum protection. A hook con- The lockable window handles protection against break-ins, as well struction taken from the “high variant provides security if some- as against dangers such as fire, gas security main door” field makes a body attempts to displace the en- and water. window or balcony door as se- tire hardware from the outside. cure as a main door. The RotoSwing Secustik® window handle (see fig. 3) is the 2 Reverse-action centre lock most attractive way of achieving security on windows, as it is not Two mushroom cams simultane- visible. A special mechanism pre- ously engage both sides of the vents violent manipulation of the security striker. window handle from the outside. Simply beautiful: Neither a push- button nor a cylinder lock de- tracts from the design. Mechanical security systems for different resistance grades 8 Security locking cams with a mushroom head provide high security in conjunction with security strikers 9 Children’s rooms A safe children’s room – simply reassuring Windows open up the world for us. The handle can only be unlocked But for small explorers, they can with a key. also pose a risk. A friend’s calling from outside. The child, while still Safe ventilation concentrating on something else, opens the window, leans out and al- Whether the Roto children’s secu- ready it’s too late. Roto has thought rity window is open or closed – it of this and has developed a special can only be fully opened by some- type of technology – “Tilt before one with the key. And it goes with- Turn” – to cover it. out saying that the key must be kept out of the hands of children. An intelligent safety mechanism This guarantees safety and at the same time permits safe ventilation The Roto child safety lock locks the in the tilted position for a regular window sash in the tilt mode, with exchange of air. If the children’s the handle in the horizontal posi- room is to be used at a later date tion. The lockable handle thereby for some other purpose, the child prevents the possibility of changing safety lock can simply be removed. from tilting to turning in order to fully open the window. 1 Tilt ventilation 2 Open in the turn position after unlocking 10 11 Comfort Greater comfort for balcony and terrace doors Balcony and terrace doors are You’ll appreciate this added comfort frequently used exit routes. So why particularly in the summer when shouldn’t they have some added you often use the balcony door to comfort? Roto NT makes windows go outside. Slamming of the sash is and terrace doors even easier to prevented, even when it’s windy. use. No more lubricant marks on the Ideal for terrace/balcony doors – curtains the magnetic bullet catch If you don’t lock an ordinary terrace A touch of the balcony door is door, a curtain can get trapped enough: The sash closes over gen- when there’s a sudden gust of tly and independently, attracted by wind, and can get dirty from the lu- magnetic force.

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