Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household EquipmentsPeyser, Ethel R. (Ethel Rose)
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Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments
Peyser, Ethel R. (Ethel Rose)
Home economics; Household appliances; Kitchen appliances; Kitchen utensils
If the rolling screen is not used, the casement can be covered with
top-hung outside screens, side-hung, double-door style, or single from
one side or stationary on the outside, if the window opens inside. When
possible the casement screen should be hung on pivot hinges to permit
ease of detaching for storage, and, as we said before, to leave the
window without the marring of the hinge there or removed. However,
frequently in the case of the unusually large screen the use of a little
strap hinge is sometimes necessary to carry the extra weight. In marble
window casing the hinge of course is an impossibility.
A couple of side levers on either side of the screen for releasing the
pivots when the screens are to be taken off for the winter make the
matter of removal as easy as “falling off a log.”
The top hinge screen on the outside of the window which pushes out from
the inside has to be hung very securely and the bolts and pivots and
handles and adjusters have to be made to perfection. The adjuster for
pushing this window out or open must be a pleasure to use or else this
type of screen will be a curse. There is an adjuster now on the market
that is put on the window in such a way that the screen can be opened or
closed without opening the inside of the window. A double insurance
against inroads of bugs while opening the window to adjust screen!
Put up to “stay put” stationary screens are fastened with bolts which
are removed when necessary to store.
WOODEN FRAMES
The story of the wooden frame is about the same as the metal, only that
the wood frame can’t rust, but can wear out if not seasoned and kiln
dried and given all the care in manufacture that long life in woods
necessitates.
Here, too, the corner construction must be perfect, must be able to bear
the weight of the screen and take out the jars. The frame must be rigid,
light and strong. The wire cloth must be so fastened at every point that
there is no sag or bagginess in the broadest window.
Now all this is possible in the best wood frame screens and with good
workmanship. Every one thought for a long time that the metal screen
could not incorporate their good points. Don’t be fooled by some one
saying that the wood screen cannot be made “fool proof,” for it can and
is. Here again every maker has his own device for catching the metal
cloth; here again the metal cloth must be rustless; here again the metal
work and hardware must be rustless; the screen must make easy
manipulation possible.
The screen door question, too, is rallied round with the same provisos
of manufacture as metal and wood screens. There are the two leaf door
and the one leaf.
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