Smooth & Reliable, characteristics that are paramount when fabricating a casement or awning window. That’s why Vision Hardware has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality, consistency and reliability of their casement products. In fact, Vision casement parts have been tested and certified in accordance with AAMA 901-16 and AAMA 904-14.
Install Vision Hardware casement window operators and components so your windows will open and close with ease time after time. Vision’s wide selection, available in a range of colors and styles, easily accommodates any casement or awing design.
Zinc & Composite Hybrid Hardware Systems
Vision Hardware’s new lines of Hybrid construction systems allow us to utilize our expertise in injection molding and die casting technologies to provide the best of both worlds in a strong, energy and cost efficient product that is consumer and marketing friendly.
The first series of top and flush mount cam locks have zinc cams, handles and down rods with a color matched composite housing. This yields a cool to the touch locking handle with direct drive to the metal cam and a composite housing that stays warm. All in all these cost effective systems give you the strength of metal and the insulating properties of composite that make sense at every level. Please contact Vision Hardware to arrange a thermal imaging presentation of our latest innovation.
Vision, maintains an uninterrupted supply of components from our manufacturing facility while providing a Just-in-time inventory strategy that helps lower customer inventory cost by reducing transit times and reducing warehouse cost while reliably getting Vision products to you just before you need them.
Specifications for custom product development are relayed to our overseas engineering staff in our manufacturing facility where concepts are refined and prototypes are developed.
Teams on both sides work together seamlessly and efficiently in an effort to come up with the best possible product for our customers. As a result, our two teams of engineers literally work towards a common goal 24 hours a day from both sides of the world.
Vision leads the fenestration industry with over 40 patents and many pending patent applications. With a product line of over 7000 window and door hardware parts and accessories, Vision Hardware is the supplier of choice for leading U.S. window and door manufacturers.
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The Lock & Tilt Combo will work with almost any lock shape and design allowing you and your customer to maintain the unique look of your window. The Lock and Tilt Combo can be used in extruded vinyl windows with or without reinforcement, or in wood and cellular sash designs. The wood version Lock and Tilt Combo is designed to transfer the load from the zinc bolt of the tilt latch across the reinforcement rail to the opposite tilt latch and to the jamb liner. The system installs quickly with minimal fabrication.
The new WOCD Lock-Tilt Combo is a single window hardware component that performs 4 functions: 4 point locking, sash tilt, and now a WOCD compliant vent stop thus eliminating the need for adding a separate vent stop or other WOCD components on the window.
In addition, as WOCD compliancy becomes more widely accepted, manufacturers can offer this safety feature without adding additional hardware or extending the process time for fabrication. Because the WOCD functionality is hidden, manufacturers are able to maintain the aesthetics of their current window.
The finished window yields a 4 point multi locking system, dual tilting sashes, a secure venting feature and dual WOCDs as a standard, but only the locks are visible. All the other features are internalized and work from the lock itself. Once the fabrication and material cost of tilt latches, vent stops and WOCDs are backed out the system is a wash. Think of the marketing sizzle and the retail opportunity.
Most locks for impact windows are surface mounted, consist of zinc, and are bulky. To say the least, the finished product is not as cosmetically appealing as a standard residential window would appear. Vision Hardware has utilized their expertise in both injection molding and die casting to yield an impact hardware system where the tilt latches are internalized and work from the lock housings. This system can use a variety of surface or recessed lock housing designs enabling fabricators to maintain their unique identity while providing an attractive finished impact window.
The Impact Lock-Tilt Combo is custom configured to meet stringent impact window codes. Pistons in the side rails are longer and are not tapered as in the standard version. Additionally, when engaged, the cylindrical piston slides into a beveled recess in the jamb reinforced with a fixed metal retainer clip. The end result is a 4 point locking system, two points at the meeting rail and two at the jamb that act as a tensioned “net” to absorb impact and transfer the load to the sub structure.
Is one better then two? The answer is yes if you prefer. Many wood window manufactures prefer to use just one lock and keeper for a more traditional looking sash on their high end windows. If you are a vinyl window fabricator, a common goal has always been to create a window having all of the benefits of vinyl but achieve the look of a wood window. Vision’s answer to this is a design that possesses all of the features of the original design but utilizes a single lock. The Third Generation Lock-Tilt Combo only requires one center lock to operate but offers another level of security with the addition of two locking points on either end of the operating sash. So now you can open and tilt a window with one hand tied behind your back!
Vision Hardware’s new lines of Hybrid construction systems allow us to utilize our expertise in injection molding and die casting technologies to provide the best of both worlds in a strong, energy and cost efficient product that is consumer and marketing friendly. (more…)
Vision Hardware’s new Lock-Tilt Combo, a lock and tilt latch release mechanism, has been specifically designed for the high-end window market. The sturdy Lock-Tilt Combo will stand up to thousands of cycles and is a perfect match for DP-50 rated windows. (more…)
Vision Hardware announced their new Shipping Clip at this years Glass Build America Show in Atlanta, GA. The unique locking clip safely secures the window sash in place without engaging the locking cam eliminating damage during shipping. The cost effective and simply applied design secures the sashes and is easily removed without tools. Call Vision Hardware today for more information and supply availability (800) 220-4756 or email [email protected]
