Emtek Modern Push & Pull Plates

The pull is a separate line item. The Modern pull plate, model 86437, comes drilled to accept an 8 inch pull, so you order the plate and the pull as two items and match the finish across both. Mounting screws come with the plate in the matching finish, so you are not sourcing fasteners. The other function, the 86436 Modern push plate, is the blank plate for the push face and needs nothing added to it.

One of each on opposite faces is the normal setup for a swing door. The 86436 push plate is the blank brass plate for the push side, where hands and carts hit the door. The 86437 goes on the pull side and is drilled to accept an 8 inch pull. They are ordered as separate items, so a single door means a push plate, a pull plate, and the pull itself. Both functions are offered in all seven finishes, so the two faces will match.

Residential duty is what these are set up for: solid brass plates surface screwed to the door face. They suit a home, a lobby door in a small building, or an interior office door with normal traffic. For a heavy traffic commercial opening, look at a heavy duty plate instead, such as the Ives 8302 heavy duty pull plate with through bolt mounting, the Ives 8303 heavy duty pull plate, or the cast Trimco 1010 and 1012 heavy duty pull plates. Those are built for the abuse a school, hospital, or retail entrance puts on a pull side.

The Emtek Modern plates are 3-1/2 inches by 15 inches. Delaney builds both halves of that pair at the same footprint: the Delaney 3-1/2 inch x 15 inch Door Pull Plate (DLY-4900xx) and the Delaney 3-1/2 inch x 15 inch Push Plate (DLY-4905xx). Because the plate outline matches, either one lands on the same area of stile the Emtek plates cover. The difference is in what the plate carries and what it is made of: the Emtek 86437 pull plate is drilled to accept an 8 inch pull, with the pull ordered separately, and the Emtek plates are brass and supplied with matching screws.

Emtek classes the Modern push and pull plates as residential hardware. For an opening that takes commercial traffic, Ives builds the 8302 Heavy Duty Pull Plate with through bolt mounting and the 8303 Heavy Duty Pull Plate with 8 inch or 10 inch center-to-center mounting, and Trimco builds the cast 1010 Series with a 5 inch center-to-center pull, the 1012 cast tapered plate with a 5.5 inch center-to-center pull, and the 1013 round plate with a 5.5 inch center-to-center pull, all rated heavy duty. If the aesthetic on the rest of the openings is the reason for the Emtek plate, the Ives 8303 is the one of those that will take an 8 inch pull like the Emtek 86437 does.

Seven finishes, each available in both the push plate and the pull plate: Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), Flat Black (US19), Polished Chrome (US26), Unlacquered Brass (US3NL), and Satin Brass (US4). Part numbers are the model plus the finish code, so a satin nickel push plate is 86436US15 and the matching pull plate is 86437US15. That makes it straightforward to standardize a building or a floor of units on one finish and reorder by number later.

Surface mount with screws, which ship with the plate in the matching finish. The plate lays on the face of the door and screws in, so there is no mortising, no cutting, and no through bore. That also means the screws need something solid to bite into at the plate line, which is worth checking on a hollow core door. If you specifically want a through bolted plate so the fixing pulls against the far face, the Ives 8302 is the pull plate with through bolt mounting.

Yes. The Emtek Modern plates measure 3-1/2 x 15 inches, and Delaney Hardware builds the same nominal footprint: the Delaney 3-1/2 inch x 15 inch Push Plate for the push face and the Delaney 3-1/2 inch x 15 inch Door Pull Plate for the pull face. If you are adding doors to a building that already has 3-1/2 x 15 plates up, either brand keeps the outline consistent from door to door.

For a larger footprint, step up to the Delaney 4 inch x 16 inch Push Plate or the Delaney 4 inch x 16 inch Door Pull Plate. The Emtek Modern plates run 3-1/2 x 15 inches, so the Delaney 4 x 16 gives you a half inch more across and an inch more of length to hide old prep or wear on a repaint. Confirm the old holes actually fall inside that outline before you order, since a plate only covers what it overlaps.

Not as a drop-in for the pull. The Emtek Modern 86437 is drilled to accept an 8 inch pull. The Trimco plates carry shorter pulls: the 1010 Series is drilled 5 inch center-to-center, the 1012 cast tapered plate and the 1013 round plate 5.5 inch center-to-center, and the 1014 Series half-round plate 6 inch center-to-center. Any of them will hang a pull on the door, but the pull itself and the through holes in the door are on different centers, so an 8 inch pull ordered for the Emtek plate will not land on a Trimco plate. The Ives 8303, offered with 8 inch or 10 inch center-to-center mounting, is the one in that group that matches an 8 inch pull.

The Emtek Modern 86437 is a plain pull plate drilled to accept an 8 inch pull and is mounted to the door surface with the matching screws supplied. It is not built around an exit device chassis. For a door running a Detex Value Series exit device, Detex builds the P/PN Series Pull Plate specifically for those devices (DTX-01P), so the plate is made to work with the device already on the door rather than fighting it for the same real estate.

The Emtek Modern plates are 3-1/2 inches by 15 inches, which sets how much of the stile they hide. Delaney builds the same two pieces one size up: the Delaney 4 inch x 16 inch Door Pull Plate (DLY-490xx0) and the Delaney 4 inch x 16 inch Push Plate (DLY-490xxx). That is a half inch wider and an inch taller than the Emtek plates, so it takes in a wider band of scuffing and old fastener holes on the same door. Delaney also builds both pieces at 3-1/2 inches by 15 inches (DLY-4900xx and DLY-4905xx) if the doors elsewhere in the building need to stay at the smaller plate.

US3NL is raw brass with no coating on it, so it is a living finish that darkens and takes on fingerprints and patina as it gets handled. On a push plate that happens faster than anywhere else on the door, because the plate exists to be touched. That is the look some people want and the exact thing others will call a defect, so pick it deliberately. If you want the finish to stay as it arrives, Polished Nickel (US14), Polished Chrome (US26), Satin Nickel (US15), and Flat Black (US19) are the coated-look options, and Satin Brass (US4) is the brass tone that is not the raw unlacquered version.