Design Hardware 416-PA-DP PA Drop Plate 5"

A drop plate is a mounting bracket that lowers the closer body on the door or frame when there isn't enough flat mounting surface where the closer would normally land. Common cases are a narrow top rail, a glass panel, or a frame stop that eats the mounting area. The 416-PA-DP is the parallel arm drop plate for the Design Hardware 416 Series closer, 5 inches tall, and it does not change how the closer works, it only relocates it.

Not automatically. The 416-PA-DP is a parallel arm drop plate you add when the door's top rail or the soffit of the frame stop is too shallow to take the closer body in the PA position. If you have full mounting surface, the closer mounts without it. Measure the available flat area at the head before you order.

The 416-PA-DP is a 5 inch tall drop plate for a 416 Series door closer, and Corbin Russwin builds the same kind of part for its own closers: the 188F65 is a Grade 1 door closer drop plate for the DC3220 with full cover, and the 597F58 is a drop plate for the DC3210 with full cover in the DC3000/DC50000 series. Both Corbin Russwin plates are listed for a 1-3/4 inch door thickness. A drop plate is closer-specific in its hole pattern, so the Corbin plates go under Corbin closer bodies and the 416-PA-DP goes under a 416 Series closer.

Two finishes: aluminum painted and dark bronze painted. Those are the two standard painted closer finishes, so order the plate to match the 416 closer cover you're installing. On a fleet of openings where the closers are already dark bronze, the aluminum plate will stand out at the head of the door.

The 416 Series parts line, including this PA drop plate, is standard duty. For a high cycle entrance, a school corridor, or a main building entry, spec a heavier closer family rather than putting a standard duty plate and closer on it. For interior offices, restrooms, and apartment unit doors, standard duty is the right call.

The 416-PA-DP is sold on its own as a replacement part, so if the plate is bent, corroded, or the wrong finish, you replace just the plate and keep the closer. It's the plate only, not the closer body and not the arm. If the arm is what failed, that's a separate part.

The 416-PA-DP measures 5 inches tall, which is the dimension you check against the space between the frame head and the top of your glass or panel. In the parallel arm position the plate sits on the frame soffit and the closer hangs below it, so you need that vertical run clear of any stop, lite frame, or transom bar. Measure from the underside of the head down before ordering.

No, and it is a common mix-up when ordering closer parts. The 416-PA-DP is a 5 inch tall drop plate - the flat mounting plate that goes between the closer body and the frame or door face. A part like the Corbin Russwin 688F77 regular arm with hold-open or the 688F95 regular arm for top jamb mounting is a complete closer arm, the linkage that connects the closer spindle to the opposite surface. If the closer body will not land on the available mounting surface, you need a drop plate; if the closer will not hold open or the linkage is bent, you need an arm.

Hold-open is a function of the arm, not of the mounting plate. The 416-PA-DP is a drop plate that only relocates where the closer body mounts. For hold-open on a Corbin Russwin closer, the 688F77 is a regular arm with hold-open, while the 688F95 is a regular arm for top jamb mounting without it. Buyers replacing a closer on a narrow header often need both a plate to get the body onto the surface and the correct arm for the function they want.