Patent ID: 7946079

Claim:
In an electrically driven entryway activation system for opening and closing two spaced swinging doors hung on spaced rotating parallel door posts, a base plate extending between the door posts, levers attached to each door post journaled in hubs secured to the base plate, said lever rotating in a plane parallel to the base plate, a low profile actuation means spaced between the levers comprising: a center post supported from the base plate parallel to the door posts, a sector gear having teeth over at least a portion of the circumference thereof and journaled on the center post for rotation parallel to the base plate, and a low profile gear motor mounted between the base plate and the sector gear, said gear motor having a output pinion gear mounted for limited axial movement parallel to the center post, said output pinion gear in a raised position engaging the teeth on the sector gear and in a lowered position disengaging teeth on the sector gear, two gear posts fixed to the sector gear extending parallel to the center post and being radially spaced from the center post, connecting rods respectively extending between the gear posts and the levers attached to each door post such that rotation of the sector gear causes rotation of the swinging doors, and a means for unclutching the pinion gear mounted on the base plate in the space between the base plate and the connecting rods by depressing the pinion gear.