Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . imick & depressing the thumb-latch on the other, the latch being lockedby the swing-lever A. For French windows and cupboard-doors or for light screen-doors, one of the styles represented by Figures 363, 364 and365 are employed. Figure 364 can be locked, and itand Figure 365 work with a spring. PRICES OF LOCKS. It has not been deemed advisable to publish in this connec-tion any summary of the market prices of the locks which havebeen illustrated and described, as, without such an acquain-tance with the subj
Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . imick & depressing the thumb-latch on the other, the latch being lockedby the swing-lever A. For French windows and cupboard-doors or for light screen-doors, one of the styles represented by Figures 363, 364 and365 are employed. Figure 364 can be locked, and itand Figure 365 work with a spring. PRICES OF LOCKS. It has not been deemed advisable to publish in this connec-tion any summary of the market prices of the locks which havebeen illustrated and described, as, without such an acquain-tance with the subject as can come only by examination andcomparison of the actual samples, any prices which might begiven would be misleading, and would often be unfair criteriaof comparison. The real value of a lock depends so largelyupon the care with which the levers are fitted, and the care LA TCHES. taken with such details differs so much with the various manu-facturers that the price ought to be the last thing to be con-sidered in selecting the locks for a house. A good lock by a. Fig. 363. Cotage Latch. F. Corbm. Fig. 362. Screen-door Catch. P. & F. Corbin. thoroughly reliable firm can always be matched by a lock soldfor considerably less money, which has the outward appearanceof being exactly as reliable, and yet which is totally the difference between good and bad workmanship 2ooChapter XI. 236 B UILDERS HARD WARE. Chapter xi. could not be fairly illustrated by even the best of drawings,and it would never be wise to select merely from a trade cata-logue. The only approximation which can be presentedhere is that previously given in the classification of locks byprices. It is of course very general, and consequently some-what vague, and liable to exceptions; but it was prepared inconjunction with one of the largest hardware dealers in the
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