Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . Fig. I 55. Richards Parlor-door Hanger. Wilcox Mfg. Co. upright bars to the top of the door. The hangers are adjustedby turning up the hanger-rods in the top of the pocket, thus I. Fig. I 56. Paragon Parlor-door Hanger. Dunham Mfg. Co. lifting the track bodily. One objection to this form is that itrequires considerable width of pocket—four-aud-oue-half inches. 102 BUILDERS HARDWARE. chaptervi. Figure 155 illustrates the Richards hanger, which, with the Prindle, rather leads the market just at present. Theprinciple is
Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . Fig. I 55. Richards Parlor-door Hanger. Wilcox Mfg. Co. upright bars to the top of the door. The hangers are adjustedby turning up the hanger-rods in the top of the pocket, thus I. Fig. I 56. Paragon Parlor-door Hanger. Dunham Mfg. Co. lifting the track bodily. One objection to this form is that itrequires considerable width of pocket—four-aud-oue-half inches. 102 BUILDERS HARDWARE. chaptervi. Figure 155 illustrates the Richards hanger, which, with the Prindle, rather leads the market just at present. Theprinciple is almost exactly the same with both forms, exceptthat in the Richards the axle has a flat instead of a roundbearing, and the wheels are grooved. The Prindle manu-facturers claim that the flat wheel is preferable; the Rich-ards, on the other hand, maintain that the flanged wheel ismore desirable. There is really very little to choose betweenthe two kinds. The American Manufacturing Company has a parlor-door hanger on the market which is essentially the same as the Richards hanger. The Paragon door-hanger, Figure156, is on the principle of the Moody barn-door hanger pre-viously described. It consists of a single grooved wheelrunning on a rail secured
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