Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . Fig. 364. Screen-door Catch. Read-ing Hardware Co. 365. French Window Hardware Co. country, and is sufficiently exact to serve as a guide tothe general prices which should be paid, bearing always inmind that the wisest plan is to select only from the work ofthe best manufacturers and then only by samples. The seventy-five or more locks which have been illustratedand described must be considered as types rather than as anexhaustive selection. A simple, three-lever lock is commonproperty and several manufa
Builder's hardware; a manual for architects, builders and house furnishers . Fig. 364. Screen-door Catch. Read-ing Hardware Co. 365. French Window Hardware Co. country, and is sufficiently exact to serve as a guide tothe general prices which should be paid, bearing always inmind that the wisest plan is to select only from the work ofthe best manufacturers and then only by samples. The seventy-five or more locks which have been illustratedand described must be considered as types rather than as anexhaustive selection. A simple, three-lever lock is commonproperty and several manufacturers whose names have not beenmentioned in this connection turn out locks which are quite asgood or better than those which have been selected for illustra-tion. The difference would be entirely in the fitting or thefinish, neither of which can be shown by the illustrations. Allthat can be hoped for is that this chapter may serve as a sum-mary to guide in the general selection of the goods. CHAPTER XII. Fig. 366. Knob with Spindle-screw partly covered. TT7HE ordinaryA appliance foroperating a door-latch consists ofa knob on eachside of the door,made of porce-lain, wood, com-generally in theare attached tofrom the door,two knobs areThe spindle Ordinary Spin-dle Attach-ment. position, or metal in various forms, but shape of a flattened sphere. The knobs metal shanks serving to hold them away and to prevent their pushing in, and the connected through the lock by a square spindle is firmly attached to the shank of one knob, and on the other side of the door it fits loosely in the shank, considerable length being allowed for the adjustment to various thicknesses of doors, the inner knob being finally secured in place by a screw on one side of the shank which passes entirely through the spindle, and sometimes is also made of sufficient length to 238 BUILDERS HARDWARE. Chapter XII. Roses. Washers. turn into the opposite side of the shank. The hole in the doorthrough wh
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