The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 469
440 Recollections of a Tour made in May, 1839, Fig. 104. showsa staybar for a door or a gate, in which the wall is on thesame plane with the door. In this adaptation of the staybar, the groove inwhich it slides is made curvilinear, merely to facilitate the operation of sliding,because it would… … may have any radius that may be convenient, provided that it commences atb and terminates at a. The points c c c represent projections from the groove,having holes for screwing on a wooden guide-bar, to prevent the staybar fromrising out of the groove. Fig. 105. is a section of the groove of half…