rotogate

plural rotogates · alternative roto-gate

1. A turnstile with its height extended to the height of a person, similar to a revolving door.

   The entryway of the Armitage station is treated nicely with plants and a path to the exit rotogate.

   2005 February 28, Jing Su, “Reclaiming residual space from elevated transport infrastructure : time, space, and activity under the Chicago Brown Line”, in Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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   This morning, the "rotogate," the pedestrian access which gives all of us walking access to our colleagues on the other side of the CEA fence, has become operational.

   2009 January 19, Iris Rona, “Celebrate the opening of the rotogate!”, in ITER

   The stationary planar barrier and the stationary curved barrier limit the passage of a person or object through the roto-gate to only a path controlled by movement of the three rotating wings of the roto-gate.

   2012 March 20, Fariborz M. Bzorgi, Speed Control System for an Access Gate, US Patent 8,136,297 (PDF version), page 8

   However, when the subway opened in 1943, these facilities were exit-only, equipped with high rotogate exit turnstiles.

   2018, Graham Garfield, “Streamlined Subway: The Architecture and Design of Chicago's First Subway”, in First & Fastest