Deltana PP3520 Push Plate 3-1/2" x 20" Brass or Stainless Steel

The PP3520 measures 3-1/2 x 20 inches, which is the tall, narrow proportion most commercial push plates use. If what's coming off is a 3-1/2 x 15 inch plate, like the Delaney 3-1/2 x 15 push plate, the PP3520 matches it in width but runs five inches longer, so it will cover the old footprint top to bottom in that dimension. Going the other way, from a 4 x 16 plate down to the PP3520, the 3-1/2 inch width leaves a half inch of the old outline showing. Measure the existing plate before you order.

A push plate is a flat plate with no handle on it, so it mounts on the side of a swinging door people push, purely to keep hands off the door face. The Deltana PP3520 is that flat push type at 3-1/2 x 20 inches. On the opposite face you want a pull plate, which is the same style of backplate with a handle attached, such as the Trimco 1010 Series cast pull plate with a 5 inch center-to-center pull or the Ives 8303 with 8 or 10 inch center-to-center. Ordering two push plates for one door leaves you nothing to grab on the pull side.

Check the stile before ordering. The PP3520 is 3-1/2 inches across, and a narrow stile aluminum door typically gives you about 2 to 2-1/2 inches of flat face beside the glass, so a 3-1/2 inch plate will overhang the glass stop. The 20 inch length is rarely the problem; the width is. On a flush wood or hollow metal door the 3-1/2 inch width is no issue at all.

The Deltana PP3520 push plate measures 3-1/2 inches by 20 inches. If the opening calls for a wider face, the Delaney 4 inch x 16 inch Push Plate steps up to a 4 inch width, trading 4 inches of height for the extra half inch of width. For a same-width plate in a shorter height, the Delaney 3-1/2 inch x 15 inch Push Plate keeps the 3-1/2 inch width. Match the width to the stile face first, then pick the height that clears the lock and any vision light.

No. Each PP3520 ships in an individual poly bag with mounting hardware included, sold one plate to a unit. On a swinging door you generally want a plate on the push side and a pull on the opposite face, so order the pull separately if the opening needs both.

Deltana lists the PP3520 as a commercial push plate at 1.2mm plate gauge, in brass or stainless steel. That's a formed sheet plate, so it takes the palm and shoe traffic a push side sees and keeps the door face from getting scuffed. For an opening where people yank hard on the pull side, the through-bolted heavy duty pull plates, like the Ives 8302, are built for that pulling load; the PP3520 is the push side of that pair.

Ten finishes across the PP3520: PVD Polished Brass, Polished Brass, Antique Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, Polished Chrome, Brushed Chrome, Brushed Stainless, and Paint Black. That range is what makes it practical to standardize push plates across a building where the existing hardware isn't all one finish. PVD Polished Brass is the one to pick over standard Polished Brass if the door sees weather or heavy handling, since PVD is a hard vacuum-deposited coating rather than a lacquer.

Both are made. The PP3520 is offered in brass and in stainless steel, with the substrate listed as stainless steel, and finish determines which you get. The Brushed Stainless finish is the stainless plate; the brass finishes, Polished Brass, PVD Polished Brass, Antique Brass, and Oil Rubbed Bronze among them, are the brass version. For coastal or wash-down environments stainless is the material to specify.

The Deltana PP3520 is a general purpose push plate for a swinging door and mounts to the door face, not to a device. The Detex P/PN Series Pull Plate is built specifically for Detex Value Series exit devices, so on that opening the device-matched Detex plate is the piece that lines up with the device trim. On the push side of an exit device opening the door is pushed through the device itself, which is what makes the PP3520 a plate for openings without one.

The Deltana PP3520 is a commercial push plate in a 1.2mm gauge, sized 3-1/2 inches by 20 inches, and it suits ordinary swinging door duty. Where the pull side takes abuse, the Ives 8302 Heavy Duty Pull Plate with through bolt mounting and the Ives 8303 Heavy Duty Pull Plate with 8 inch or 10 inch center-to-center mounting are rated heavy duty, and through bolting carries the load to both faces of the door rather than to screws in one skin. Trimco 1012 and 1013 are also heavy duty cast pull plates with a 5.5 inch center-to-center pull.

The Deltana PP3520 is a plain rectangular push plate, 3-1/2 inches by 20 inches, offered in ten finishes including polished chrome, oil rubbed bronze, brushed nickel and antique brass. Emtek offers push and pull plates in decorative series: Knoxville, Modern, and the Lost Wax Cast Bronze Petal. The Emtek sets are pattern-driven designs; the Deltana is a flat plate whose visual variable is the finish. If the specification is a decorative motif, look at the Emtek series; if it is a protective plate in a specific finish, the PP3520 covers it.

The Deltana PP3520 is a plain flat rectangle, which is what you want on a back-of-house or commercial opening but not on a feature door. For a decorative face, look at the Emtek push and pull plate sets: the Knoxville series, the Modern series, and the Lost Wax Cast Bronze Petal series. Those come as matched push and pull sets rather than a single flat plate.