. Biggle horse book : a concise and practical treatise on the horse. Horses; Horses; Stables; CHR 1895; PRO Dickson, Anna (donor); PRO Dickson, Agnes (donor). FIG. 2. little harder to make, shown in Figure 3. In it A is a spring made of hickory or oak and set into the end of the bolt B. At c is a flat strip of wood, which goes through the bolt and through a slot in the door to open it from the other side. The bolt is beveled at the end so that it will slide back, and the spring will throw it into place every time, no matter how hard the door may be slammed. A pin at D will prevent the bolt goi
. Biggle horse book : a concise and practical treatise on the horse. Horses; Horses; Stables; CHR 1895; PRO Dickson, Anna (donor); PRO Dickson, Agnes (donor). FIG. 2. little harder to make, shown in Figure 3. In it A is a spring made of hickory or oak and set into the end of the bolt B. At c is a flat strip of wood, which goes through the bolt and through a slot in the door to open it from the other side. The bolt is beveled at the end so that it will slide back, and the spring will throw it into place every time, no matter how hard the door may be slammed. A pin at D will prevent the bolt going too far. If your barn doors are cut through at the middle, as they should be, the hickory spring A could. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob; Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU. Philadelphia : Wilmer Atkinson Co.
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