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A door handle or doorknob is a handle used to open or close a door. Door handles can be found on all types of doors including exterior doors of residential and commercial buildings, internal doors, cupboard doors and vehicle doors. There are many designs of door handle, depending on the appropriate use. A large number of handles, particularly ...
Window handle. A window handle is a short length of material that attaches to a window in order to aid rotation of the hinge and therefore opening and closing of the window. It often contains holes allowing the window to be fastened into place onto a spike at a distance preferred by the operator of the device allowing for outside air to ...
An adjustable spanner (UK and most other English-speaking countries), shifting spanner (Australia and New Zealand), [1] English wrench (Turkey) [2] or adjustable wrench (US and Canada) is any of various styles of spanner (wrench) with a movable jaw, allowing it to be used with different sizes of fastener head (nut, bolt, etc.) rather than just one fastener size, as with a conventional fixed ...
The actual sliding door is a movable rectangular framed sheet of window glass that is mounted parallel to a similar and often fixed similarly framed neighboring glass partition. The movable panel slides in a fixed track usually, and in its own plane parallel to the neighboring stationary panel. A specialty form, for Washitsu or "Japanese-style ...
Mortise lock. The two main parts of a mortise lock. Left: the lock body, installed in the thickness of a door. This example has two bolts: a sprung latch at the top, and a locking bolt at the bottom. Right: the box keep, installed in the doorjamb. A mortise lock (also spelled mortice lock in British English) is a lock that requires a pocket ...
Open the window you want to resize or move. Click and drag the outside border of the window to modify its size. Click and drag the top bar of the window to reposition it on your screen. To save or reset your adjustments, click Window | Save Window Size and Position or Reset all Window Sizes and Positions. Learn how to resize and position ...
Door furniture (British and Australian English) or door hardware (North American English) refers to any of the items that are attached to a door or a drawer to enhance its functionality or appearance. Decorative door in Florence, Italy. Manual door closer. Use of a door handle in a hotel. Design of door furniture is an issue to disabled persons ...
Wrench. A set of metric spanners or wrenches, open at one end and box/ring at the other. These are commonly known as “combination” spanners. A wrench or spanner is a tool used to provide grip and mechanical advantage in applying torque to turn objects—usually rotary fasteners, such as nuts and bolts —or keep them from turning.