Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . Fig. 80. Shepards Noiseless Blind-Hinge. Shepard Hardware Co. Fig. 81. Shepards Standard Hardware Co. raised; that is to say, the surfaces of the upper and lowerhinge are bevelled so that the blind will slide down of its ownweight and so close. Figure 80 shows one of the best of these hinges and illustrates alsothe manner in which itcloses by gravity. Thishinge and nearly all ofthe Shepard make areplanted on the face of theblind rather than mortisedinto the edges. A verysimple form, and onequite go
Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . Fig. 80. Shepards Noiseless Blind-Hinge. Shepard Hardware Co. Fig. 81. Shepards Standard Hardware Co. raised; that is to say, the surfaces of the upper and lowerhinge are bevelled so that the blind will slide down of its ownweight and so close. Figure 80 shows one of the best of these hinges and illustrates alsothe manner in which itcloses by gravity. Thishinge and nearly all ofthe Shepard make areplanted on the face of theblind rather than mortisedinto the edges. A verysimple form, and onequite good in its way isshown by Figure 81. Thetwo parts of the hingesare shown separately soa to represent it more clearly. The fold on the right isattached to the blind and the hook rests in the socket of theother fold of this hinge. The bottom of the socket is con-tracted to an ellipse and by reason of the lug on the blind hook,. Fig. 82. Shepards Gravity Hardware Co. HINGES. 57 the blind can be lifted off the hinges only when standing atright angles to the house. When the blind is open the lug Acatches into B and holds the blind securely. In order to closethe blind it is lifted bodily until the lug clears the catch. Fig-ure 82 is another variety of the Shepard hinge which can beused in case the blind is set on the face of the casing, the twoarms of the hinge being unequal in length. All of the Shepardgoods are very nicely finished and seem like very durable andserviceable articles. There are many varieties but the fore-going will answer for the purposes of general retail at ten cents per set, or fifteen cents with screws. BUTTS. As previously stated, a butt is properly a hinge which isscrewed onto the buttedge of a door. Thearrangement of the partsof a butt is governedsomewhat by the directionin which the door is toswing, and in order to prop-erly distinguish the doors,an
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