Fig. 21. Door Latch.
CHAPTER X.
Making a Door-latch—Making a Hinge—Making a Candle-stick.
Exercise No. 5.
Door latch.—In [Figure 21] is shown a latch for a double door. In [Figure 22] are shown the dimensions of the two plates and the bar latch. In making the plates, a piece of soft steel, 2 in. wide and ⅛-in. thick is used. The design is sketched on the metal and five ⁹⁄₃₂-in. holes are drilled in each plate where the square holes come in the design. The plates are then heated and a square punch is used to drift out the holes. The outside edges are then cut. The plate is heated and with a square punch the metal is set down to give it the interlaced effect as shown in [Figure 23].
Fig. 22.
