Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . Fig. 322. Niless Front-Door Hardware Co. Fig. 323. Front-Door G. Newman. drawn back. This lock is made in the New York style,with a single follow, intended to receive the spindle of theinside-knob. Figures 324 and 325 illustrate two styles of front-door locksby the Hopkins & Dickinson Manufacturing Company. The Hopkin* & Dickinson Mfg. Co. 20G B UILDERS IIARDI ] rARE. Cliapter XI. Yale Standard. former is ratlier a light lock, the latter especially strong , and fitted with five levers to b
Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . Fig. 322. Niless Front-Door Hardware Co. Fig. 323. Front-Door G. Newman. drawn back. This lock is made in the New York style,with a single follow, intended to receive the spindle of theinside-knob. Figures 324 and 325 illustrate two styles of front-door locksby the Hopkins & Dickinson Manufacturing Company. The Hopkin* & Dickinson Mfg. Co. 20G B UILDERS IIARDI ] rARE. Cliapter XI. Yale Standard. former is ratlier a light lock, the latter especially strong , and fitted with five levers to both latch and lock. Figure 326 shows one of the best of the front-door locks,the Standard, by the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Com-pany. There are three steel levers for both the latch and thelock. The night-key pushes the levers B to one side and. Fig. 324. Front-Door Lock. Hopkins& Dickinson Mfg, Co. Fig. 325. Front-Door Lock. Hopkins& Dickinson Mfg. Co. moves the bent piece A, which forces back the latch-bolt. Thetongue, C, which locks the outside-knob, is pushed in or out bythe buttons on the face-plate. It is not intended to use thislock with a swivel-spindle, but when the knob is locked by thetongue C, a spindle and cam at D serve to throw back thelatch from the inside of the door. The arrangement of thelevers B is defective in this lock, in that they will not work FR ONT-D 0 OR L 0 CKS. 207 should the springs give out. Levers which act by gravity, aswell as with springs, would seem to be more suitable. The lock represented by Figure 327, is one of Robinsonsbest make, being sold, with the corresponding vestibule lock,at $14 per set. It is a hand-made lock, all themechanism being of the examples previ-ously considered, therehave been two sets of lev-ers to each lock. In thiscase, however, there is Chapter X
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