Fig. 44.—The Hinge Window Lock.
A few suggestions as to what you can do and what you can make are described and illustrated in this chapter, and should give you plenty of material to work upon when you open up your carpenter-shop. Besides these ideas, you will find most of the articles in the following chapter suitable for the house and pieces of furniture for which it will be easy to secure orders.
The Hinge-lock, in [Fig. 44], is one of the most serviceable window-locks that can be had, for it can be so placed as to allow the window to be opened a few inches for ventilation, and at the same time prevent further opening.
The hinge is screwed to the upper sash-frame several inches above the centre sash-bar, according to the distance the window is to be opened (see [illustration]).
It will be seen that when the hinge is opened, as in the drawing, neither sash can be opened past the hinge; but when the hinge is folded flat it will not interfere with the opening of either sash.
This lock would probably be more extensively used if people knew how simple and satisfactory it is. As the hinges cost but a few cents a pair, and are put on very quickly, a boy should realize a fair sum of money in a short time supplying these locks.
A Clothes-line Reel, such as shown in [Fig. 45], is an article no housekeeper should be without. Its use does away with twisted, tangled, and knotted clothes-lines.