. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. at or settee. This is one of the features left out of the modernhome and its surroundings—a feature which gave such a rarecharm to the Colonial place, with its door stoop, settees, or theseat under the grape arbors. A primitive form of bench seen in old Germantown, Phila-delphia, inspired amplifying the original mechanical idea untilit resulted in detail shown in Figs. 264 and 265, and the com-pleted bench pictured in Fig. 263. The original stood weather-beaten yet inviting out on theopen lawn nearby a box hedging. It consis
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. at or settee. This is one of the features left out of the modernhome and its surroundings—a feature which gave such a rarecharm to the Colonial place, with its door stoop, settees, or theseat under the grape arbors. A primitive form of bench seen in old Germantown, Phila-delphia, inspired amplifying the original mechanical idea untilit resulted in detail shown in Figs. 264 and 265, and the com-pleted bench pictured in Fig. 263. The original stood weather-beaten yet inviting out on theopen lawn nearby a box hedging. It consisted of two wide endplanks and cleats placed V-shaped on the inside above the seat,so as to allow the loose bolted stanchion supporting the back tobe swung either way. This feature was attractive as it allowedone to enjoy the view in two directions. 265 266 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN In Fig. 263 is shown the improvement on this simple idea byhaving the back rack A of Figs. 264 and 265 hang loosely on alag screw at E of Fig. 265 at top of the swinging stanchion B,. Fig. 263.—General View of a Garden Bench Havinga Reversible Back. Fig. 266, the bottom being controlled to a more comfortable backinclination by a loose fitting steel strap C, of Fig. 266, which hasa screw-head slot which slips over a round head screw in thelower part of the stanchion as shown. Such an adjustable backdoes not require the seat to be wider than 15 in. The seat con-sists of a 13^-m. thick plank with a number of 3^-in. holes boredto drain off the rain, and the 3 in. wide front aprons stand off thewidth of >^-in. cleats, leaving several long slits for snow andmoisture to pass off. The bench was given four coats of whitelead and provided with four well painted 1^4-in. square pointedpickets, carefully driven in deeply into the ground, so that theylined up true with the front and back edges of the plank ends ofthe bench, which also were i3< in. thick. A hole was properly OUTDOOR FURNITURE 267 bored
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