Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . Enoch Robin- ORDINARY LOCK AND LATCH. made locks costing $ each, fitted with a single iron lever,bronze or brass being used only for the follow and the 31G is a better example of Robinsons work, costing$ per lock. In this the levers, as well as the bolts and the follow are of bronze, and the latch is fittedwith an anti-frictionstrike. The interior ofa machine-made lockusually is finer lookingthan that of one madeby hand, as in the latterall the care is concen-trated on the adjustmentof the me c h
Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . Enoch Robin- ORDINARY LOCK AND LATCH. made locks costing $ each, fitted with a single iron lever,bronze or brass being used only for the follow and the 31G is a better example of Robinsons work, costing$ per lock. In this the levers, as well as the bolts and the follow are of bronze, and the latch is fittedwith an anti-frictionstrike. The interior ofa machine-made lockusually is finer lookingthan that of one madeby hand, as in the latterall the care is concen-trated on the adjustmentof the me c h is no denying theexcellence of the Rob-inson locks, at least itwould be difficult to per-suade many Bostonbuilders that they arenot the best to be had,and although the locksare much more expen-sive than the best of theYale Standards or 201Chapter Fig. 3 17. Front-Door Lock. P. & the Hopkins & Dickinson locks, they are used a great dealon all kinds of work. It is a satisfaction to know that thereis one corner of this country where careful, conscientious workcan command its own price, in the face of the competitionwhich exists in the hardware trade. FRONT-DOOR LOCKS. The greatest amount of care and ingenuity has been ex-pended upon the locks which are used for the front-doors ofdwelling-houses, and the largest degree of complication is 202 BUILDERS HARDWARE. Chapter xi. usually found in these goods. They afford, generally speaking,a greater security against picking than do the locks which areemployed for inside-doors. The conditions of an outside-doorlock are that it shall have two sets of mechanisms operated bykeys, to move either bolt or latch at will, and shall have the
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