Hardware Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards related to hardware and construction terminology.

Rough Hardware

Hardware meant to be concealed, such as bolts, nails, screws, spikes, and other metal fittings.

Finish Hardware

Hardware, such as hinges, locks, catches, etc., that has a finished appearance as well as a function, especially that used with doors, windows, and cabinets; may be considered part of the decorative treatment of a room or building.

Nails

Straight, slender pieces of metal having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened for hammering into wood or other building materials as a fastener.

Penny (d)

The term used to designate nail lengths.

Common Wire Nail

A cut or wire low-carbon steel nail, having a slender plain shank and a medium diamond point; used in work where finish is unimportant, as in framing.

Finishing Nail

A slender nail made from finer wire than the common nail; has a brad-type head which permits it to be set below the surface of the wood, leaving only a small hole which can be puttied easily; used in finishing work.

Brad Nail

A small finishing nail, usually of the same thickness throughout, with a head that is almost flush with the sides or a head that projects slightly to one side.

Box Nail

Similar to a common nail but thinner; has a long shank which may be smooth or barbed.

Casing Nail

A slender nail with a small, slightly flared head used for finishing work.

Ring-Shank Nail

A nail having a number of ring-like grooves around the shank to increase its holding power.

Clinch Nail

Any nail designed for clinching, after driving. Clinching is securing a nail, staple, screw or bolt, by hammering the protruding point so that it is bent over.

Roofing Nail

A short nail having a barbed or ring shank and a comparatively large flat head; may be galvanized or bright; often provided with a neoprene, lead, or plastic washer; used to secure roofing felt or shingles to a roof-deck or roof boards.

Metal Lath Nail

A nail designed for securing a metal lath. A metal lath is a base for plaster fabricated: (a) by slitting metal and then stretching it to form a diamond-shaped mesh or (b) by punching and forming sheet metal.

Electrician’s Staple Nail

A u-shaped piece of metal or heavy wire, with pointed ends, driven into a surface to secure a sheet material, hold a hasp, etc.

Concrete Nail

A hardened steel nail having a flat countersunk head and a diamond point; used for nailing to concrete or masonry.

Masonry Nail

A hardened steel nail with a knurled or fluted shank; esp. used for fastening to masonry.

Face-nailing

Nailing in which the nails are driven perpendicular to the face of the material.

Blind-nailing

Also called concealed or secret nailing. Nailing in such a way that the nail heads are not visible on the face of the work. In finished roofing, the use of nails that are not exposed to the weather.

Toe-nailing

Also called skew or tusk nailing. Nailing obliquely to the surfaces being joined.

Screws

Externally threaded fasteners offering greater holding power and easier removability than nails.

Wood Screw

A helically threaded metal fastener having a pointed end; forms its own mating thread when driven into wood or other resilient material.

Metal Screw

Fastened by screwing into metal.

Lag Screw

A bolt having a square head and a thin, coarse-pitched thread.

Screw Anchors

An anchor (similar to an expansion bolt) having a metal shell with a screw along its central axis; when the shell is placed in a hole and the screw is driven in, the shell expands, tightly securing the anchor in the hole.

Tek screw

A screw used to fasten metal roofing sheets to the purlins.

Bolts

A metallic pin or rod having a head on one end and an external thread on the other for screwing up a nut; used for holding members or parts of members together.

Nut

A short metal block having a central hole which is threaded to receive a bolt, screw, or other threaded part.

Machine Bolt

A threaded bolt having a straight shank and a conventional head such as a square, hexagonal, button, or countersunk type.

Carriage Bolt

A threaded bolt having a circular head, an oval or flat bearing surface, and a means (such as a square shoulder under the head) of preventing rotation of the bolt.

Toggle Bolt

A bolt having a nut with pivoted flanged wings that close against a spring when it is pushed through a hole, and open after emerging from the hole; used to fasten objects to a hollow wall or to a wall which is accessible only from one side.

Expansion Shield

Lead or plastic sleeves inserted into a predrilled hole and expanded by driving a bolt or screw into it.

Expansion Bolt

An anchoring device having an expandable socket that swells as a bolt is tightened into it; used in masonry walls for attaching timber, etc.

Rivets

Metal pins that are used for permanently joining two or more structural steel members by passing a headed shank through a hole in each piece and hammering down the plain end to form a second head.

Butt Hinge

Hinges that are usually attached to the butt edge of a door. Hinges consist of two leaves with an odd number of knuckles on one leaf and an even number of knuckles on the other. The knuckles are attached with a pin.

Full Mortise Hinge

Most common type of hinge and has both leaves fully mortised into the frame and edge of the door.

Half-Surface Hinge

Hinge that has one leaf mounted on the face of the door and the other leaf mortised into the frame.

Half-Mortise Hinge

Hinge where leaves are surface-applied to the frame and mortised into the edge of the door.

Full-Surface Hinge

Hinge that is applied to the face of both the door and frame.

Fast pin hinge

A hinge in which the pin is fastened permanently in place.

Loose pin hinge

A hinge having a removable pin which permits its two parts to be separated.

Loose joint hinge

A hinge having two knuckles; one of which has a vertical pin that fits into a corresponding hole in the other by lifting the door up off the vertical pin. The door may be removed by unscrewing the hinge.

Olive-Knuckle Hinge

A paumelle hinge with knuckles forming an oval shape.

Invisible Hinge

A hinge so constructed that no parts are exposed when the door is closed.

Spring Hinge

A hinge containing one or more springs, when a door is opened, the hinge returns to its closed position automatically; may act in one direction only, or in both directions (as on a swinging door).

Mortise lock

Lock that is installed in a rectangular area cut out of the door and is more secure than a bored lock

Preassembled lock

A complete unit slid into a notch made in the edge of the door and requires very little adjustment

Bored lock

Lock installed by boring holes through the face of the door and from the edge of the door to the other bored opening

Interconnected lock

Lock that has a cylindrical lock and a dead bolt where the two locks are interconnected so that a single action of turning a knob or lever handle on the inside releases both bolts

Strike Plate

A metal plate or box which is set in a doorjamb and is either pierced or recessed to receive the bolt or latch of a lock, fixed on a door.

Lip Strike

The projection from the side of a strike plate which the bolt of a lock strikes first, when a door is closed; projects out from the side of the strike plate to protect the frame.

Closers

Devices that automatically return the door to its closed position after it is opened.

Pivots

provide an alternative way to hang doors where the visual appearance of hinges is objectionable or where a frameless door design may make it impossible to use hinges.

Panic Hardware

Operating hardware that is used where required by the building code for safe egress during a panic situation.

Astragals

Vertical members used between double doors to seal the opening, act as a door stop, or provide extra security when the doors are closed.

Door Bolt

A manually operated sliding rod or bar attached to a door for locking it.

Chain Door Fastener

A device attached to a door and its jamb which limits the door opening to the length of the chain.

Flush Bolts

Are used on the inactive leaf of a pair of doors to lock the door in place.

Automatic Door Bottoms

Devices that are mortised or surface applied to the bottom of the door to provide a sound or light seal.

Weather Stripping

Is used along the edge and bottom of doors to provide a tight seal against water and air infiltration.

Thresholds

Are used where floor materials change at a door line, where weather stripping is required, where a hard surface is required for an automatic door bottom, or where minor changes in floor level occur.

T-Hinge

Surface-mounted door hinge in the shape of a letter T, of which one leaf, the strap, is fastened to the door, and the other is fixed to the door post.

Friction Catch

Catches where strikers are held in engaged position by friction.

Drawer Runners

E-single extension, V-full extension, and T-telescopic extension.