The DOUBLEPLAY Moveable Wall

The patented DOUBLEPLAY moveable wall allows a facility to offer its members two sports - squash & racquetball - without dedicating separate courts to each sport. The wall rests on custom-made urethane casters specially designed to roll easily over court surfaces. The wall is supported in the vertical position while in motion by expanding steel scissors-arms, eliminating the need for tracks in the side walls. This unique feature reduces installation costs and retains the integrity of the playing surface or floor.

The patented DOUBLEPLAY moveable wall system is the only moveable wall available without tracks of any kind. Whether tracks are installed in the walls or the floor, this creates an uneven playing surface that causes an unnatural deflection when hit by a ball. The DOUBLEPLAY moveable wall eliminates all areas of hinder by supporting the wall in the vertical position with expanding steel scissors arms. These arms retract when the wall is in the racquetball position and never come in contact with the side walls.

Only ½" tempered safety glass can meet the demands of high impact loads created when a player runs or falls against the wall. A Best Enterprises, Inc. never has, and never will substitute inferior grades of glass in any of its products.

Another patented feature of the DOUBLEPLAY moveable wall is the self-storing support brace. This brace is attached to the top-center of the moveable wall frame and to the header above the door. In the racquetball position, the brace collapses and is completely concealed inside the frame. As the wall moves forward, the brace articulates in the center, bending parallel with the floor and snaps into place when the wall reaches the squash position. This brace provides exceptional stability for squash players, unmatched by any other system.

On DOUBLEPLAY moveable walls, the glass panels are placed on the face of the support members, creating all glass to glass joints on the playing surface. Other systems place the glass between the support members. The result is an awkward transition: glass - silicone - aluminum post - silicone - glass. Each of these surfaces has different bounce characteristics and hence unpredictable trajectories when the ball rebounds near the posts.

Like the "Wrap Around" hinge described in the DOUBLEPLAY Fin Wall systems, the hinge used in moveable walls also have a "no-kickback" feature. Besides eliminating the safety hazard of the gap created when the door is opened, in a moveable wall system, (which by design must have top and bottom horizontal extrusions), there is no need for inserts above and below the door. Since no portion of the door pivots away from the court into the hallway, the door can be full height. In any other system, the door must be cut short to pass below the top extrusion and above the bottom extrusion.

The DOUBLEPLAY post wall hinge is unique, in that the bulk of the mechanism resides inside the post. All other hinge designs require that the hinge be attached to the outside surface of the post. Since the DOUBLEPLAY hinge is hidden within the post the resulting look is clean and streamlined.

Other manufactures typically use large black polyurethane hinges and attaching hardware. DOUBLEPLAY structural glass walls use white powder coated hardware. There is no tendency for the player to lose sight of the ball against a dark background. The white hardware creates a dramatic contrast with the ball. Other manufactures have attempted to make their polyurethane components white, but they turn yellow after only a few years due to the ultraviolet light inside a sports facility. The powder-coated surface of the DOUBLEPLAY hardware is impervious to ultraviolet radiation.

In Squash position

In partially closed position

For stability, the DOUBLEPLAY moveable wall utilizes slide bolts that anchor snugly into flush plates in the court floor and walls. A self-storing support brace provides additional support when the wall is in the squash position. This brace retracts automatically when the wall is moved into the racquetball position and is hidden from view inside the back wall header.

The DOUBLEPLAY removable telltale is a two-piece system that attaches to the front wall into flush mounted plates. The specially-designed hooks ensure that the telltale never falls off during play. The two piece design is easy to remove and store when not in use.

Only the DOUBLEPLAY moveable wall offers a true back wall playing surface. Our special aluminum extrusions and patented hinge design allows us to install the glass panels side-to-side with only a 1/8” silicone separator. The glass panels create one solid surface eliminating all glass-to aluminum transitions. The hinge is integral to the vertical posts thereby creating the smallest possible profile and producing the greatest visibility.

Door Hinge

Adjustable Hook

Slide Bolt

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