SALT LAKE - He took existing technology and improved it to create the world's finest and safest garage door mounting system.

To top it off, David O. Martin's system adds space to every homeowner's garage, while sparing them potential damage to fingers, joints or limbs. Each system has a lifetime warranty. David Martin says "As a garage door installer, who's installed other door mounting systems, I designed a better way of doing it and included it on all of my garage doors." In addressing safety concerns with fingers and hands around the track, Martin said he took the best of existing reverse angle and tapered angle technology, then available for residential or commercial doors. Using principles from both applications he came up with a new stronger mounting system that also addressed safety issues. This new system established a more efficient method of mounting a garage door to a garage opening.
		Martin Door's Reverse Angle Safety System mounts to any kind of surface, including brick.

David Martin says the Reverse Angle Shield Safety System that he invented is part of each Martin garage door system. It is the finest in the world, and a model for others to envy. It can be mounted to a standard wood frame, sheetrock, steel, concrete, block, rock or "practically anything." Because it does not require a wood jamb or doorstop, it adds more inches to the drive in place and width of each garage, Martin claims.

In the Martin system, the door closes against the steel of reverse angle shield, not wood, not drywall, or any other existing surface. This results in no rubbing of the door against the garage door jamb, which is common in other systems on the market. It is also not vulnerable to the temperamental nature of outdoor jambs, wind, snow, heat and cold.

Just as important, Martin's system eliminates large holes, a potential safety problem in the track, which can turn a garage door into a moving knife, for those who have fingers in the wrong place.

"By utilizing these new inventions, dealers can sleep better at night because this new reverse angle shield system is safer for little children playing around the track area on both sides of the door," Martin said.

The mounting system also includes a one-of-a-kind lock on side bearing bracket, which locks the Martin side mounted springs to the track, thus eliminating the danger associated with center-mounted garage door springs, when spring pad fasteners come loose because of aging, splitting wood.

One dealer who is especially high on the Martin system is Bob Mehr of Mehr's Garage Doors of St. George, Utah.

Mehr said the safety features of the Reverse Angle Shield System are impressive, but equally important is how the door seals against windstorms and dust, which is prevalent in the climate where he lives. Other mounting systems require a plastic, rubber on vinyl seal, which only lasts a few years. Martin's steel on steel system lasts a lifetime
Mehr also said the combo track brackets are a key feature of the reverse angle system.

"I'm always talking about it," Mehr said of the Martin Reverse Shield Angle System. "I think its one of the most important things about a Martin Door."