Faceplate

This article explains the term in connection with the structure of the window, for the visible part of the lock see mortise lock .

Two double-sashed windows with forend and transom. In between there is a column made of natural stone.

The faceplate is a vertical, often profiled bar in the middle between the sashes of a double-sash window or a double door . The faceplate covers the overlap (the overlap ) between the two sashes and is also known as a loose post .

Second sash , cuffs wing , required for casement or fixed leaf is one wing which is closed normally, and serves as a stop for the other wing, as the moving leaf is referred to. With traditional constructions, the French casement can only be opened when the other active leaf is already open. If both door leaves are equipped with door closers , the door closers are often linked to one another via a closing sequence control . This is a linkage that ensures that the French leaf closes in front of the active leaf.

The picture on the right shows a window unit. From the outside, the double sash cannot be distinguished from the primary window sash. The horizontal transom separates the upper window from the lower casement. Otherwise the rebate in the forend area would prevent the double sash from closing completely.

Before the introduction of door and window sashes with loose mullions , multi- sash windows were divided by a transverse or cross stock with a fixed transom and mullion .

In particular, in furniture making a compound as a stop in the face-plate region on standing or leaf strip is called impact bar , respectively.

literature

• Faceplate . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 17 . Altenburg 1863, p. 7 ( zeno.org ).

Footnotes

1. ↑ List of technical terms blow bar , In: Galerie-Balbach.de