Antique Brass:
Ugly finish on hardware that has a dark brown color, also denoted by industry as US5. It was very popular from 1970 until the late 1980s. Unfortunately, many homes built during this period still have antique brass hardware installed.

Antique Brass

Backset:
The term backset is used to explain the distance from the edge(flange) of the door to the center of the hole drilled for your bronze knob, bronze lever or bronze dead bolt. Most US homes have a backset of 2-3/8 inches.

Ballcatches:
Item of hardware inserted into hole drilled into top of door. Used where door is opened by pulling or pushing it only. In double doors, they are used with dummy pairs of bronze levers or bronze knobs. They also can be used in the top of a small closet where pull may be used. The ball is pushed by spring tension into notched brass plate in jamb above door.

Bore:
Bore is the diameter of the hole drilled in a door for a bronze knob, bronze lever or bronze dead bolt. In the US, it’s usually 2-1/8 inches for the bronze lever, knob, and dead bolt. The bore hole for the latch is usually 1 inch in diameter.

Center to Center:
On our bronze entry sets or doors with a bronze lever and a bronze dead bolt, this is the distance from the dead bolt’s bore hole to the lever’s bore hole. For nearly all US doors, this distances is 5-1/2 inches.

Dead bolt:
Locking mechanism for an entrance door or other door, in which a bolt moves with a turn of a key into a jamb. Dead bolts can be a single cylinder or double cylinder. With a single cylinder dead bolt, a key is used on one side, and is turned by hand on the other side. With a double cylinder dead bolt, a key is used on both sides. Double cylinders are only recommended where no one needs to go through a door in case of emergency. Teague does not sell double cylinder dead bolts. Click here to see Teague bronze dead bolts.

Door Stop:
A door stop is the small piece of wood, usually 1 3/8" - 1 1/2" wide, that is attached to the door jambs on both sides and on top of the door. This strip of wood is where the door comes to rest when it is closed. It stops the door from moving any further, and also covers the gap that would otherwise appear between the door and the jambs.

Door Viewer:
Item that is inserted into a hole drilled into the face of a door. Viewer has a curved lens in it to magnify an image on the other side of the door. Viewers are made with various degrees of field of vision.

Dummy Pairs:
Bronze dummy levers and knobs are for doors where no latches are needed. These bronze knobs or levers do not turn. They can be split up for bi-fold door set, since no hardware is needed on back of the bi-folds. Dummy pairs can also be used on double french door units, where ballcatches are used to hold doors in place. Dummy Pairs do not require a standard hole to be drilled, since most are attached from each side of the door. They are usually the easiest type of door hardware to install.

Entry Sets:
These the big pieces of bronze door hardware that usually are installed on your front door. If you’re going for a majestic look, you could install these on your master bedrooms. Teague entry sets are typically a bronze passage knob or lever with a dead bolt on the top. Click here to see bronze Teague entry sets.

Escutcheons
Pronounced “es-cooch-ins,” thesre are the plates behind the bronze lever or knob that holds the lever or knob in place. These are also called escutcheons rosettes or roses.

Flange
The edge of the door. It's where the door latch sticks out.

Finials:
Also called decorative tips, these may come in different shapes, such as balls or pointed steeples, which attach to the top and bottom of a hinge for decoration. Only some hinges will accept these finials.

Flush Bolts:
Bolts mounted in a door to lock a door in place. These bolts slide up into the jamb above the door, and down into the threshold or floor below door. These are used primarily on double doors, where one door is locked in place and the other door is the one mainly used. When needed, the door locked in place can be opened. Flush bolts can also be called slidebolts, which are mounted to the face of the door. Flush bolts are mounted flush with the edge of the door.

Hinges:
Hinges are the metal objects that attach your door to the jamb, normally with screws. They can be made from bronze, brass, steel, iron or other products. Hinges are typically over-engineered, meaning that they can hold much heavier doors than they usually do. Click here to see Teague bronze hinges.

Inactive Doors:
For double front doors, usually only one door is active (the one with the bronze lever or bronze knob that you turn.) The other door doesn’t actually open and is considered the inactive door.

Jamb:
The wood that surrounds the door, and which the hinges are attached to on one side, and which the latch goes into on the other side of the door.

Keyways:
The part of the lock mechanism where the key is inserted. People unfamiliar with bronze door hardware call this part of the hardware the “lock.” Can be changed if needed for security reasons, or changed also if wanted for ease of use, where more than one lock is in existence, and you want all the locks to take the same key. All Teague hardware is keyed with Schlage’s C keyway with a 5 pin cylinder. Schlage makes a lock changing kit if you want to do it yourself.

Knobs:
Round part of door handle that you hold with your hand. This can be made of brass, porcelain, steel, glass or the best material on earth: bronze. Click here to see bronze Teague door knobs.

Latch:
The latch is the part of the bronze door hardware that moves with the turn of a bronze knob or bronze lever. It slides into the latch plate attached to the door jamb and holds the door shut or opens it.

Left Hand:
Used to describe which way the door is hung on the jamb. Left Hand describes the side of a door the handle is on as it is pulled towards you. As a door is pushed away, this would describe a handle on the opposite side of the door. For Teague Products, the handing really only affects the entry sets. All of our other bronze hardware, such as dummy, passage, and privacy levers, can be adjusted to fit any handed door.

Lever:
A bronze lever has the same function as a bronze knob, except it is longer and thinner. To open a door, bronze levers are pushed down. Besides the decorative uses of a bronze lever, they are also used in applications where someone is handicapped, and cannot grasp a knob very well. Small children can also open bronze levers easier than bronze knobs. If your arms are fully of groceries, levers are also easier to open than a bronze knob. Click here to see bronze Teague door levers.

Non-Rising-Pin (NRP):
A pin inserted into a hinge that cannot be removed. Used mainly where security is needed, so that the pin cannot be removed, and door removed from opening. On exterior doors which open outward, the pin is on the outside of the building. In this case, these pins may be used more often.

One-Quarter Inch Radius Corners:
Round corners on hardware, which may be on hinges, or other hardware items, such as ballcatches. This is one of the three standard corners on a door hinge. The other two corners are 5/8" radius and square corners. For ease of use in machining, round corners are normally used, and our company prefers 1/4" radius where possible, and the square corners otherwise.

Passage Lever or Knob:
Passage bronze knobs or bronze levers are for doors that do not need to be locked, such as a closet or doors between rooms and family rooms or living rooms. Also, you may want these bronze levers and knobs to be installed in the bedrooms of small children so that they cannot be accidentally locked.

Pewter:
Used here as a term for a hardware finish, a non-shiny gray color, called US15A by the door industry. Teague Products does not carry any pewter door knobs, levers, or dead bolts.

Polished Brass:
Possibly the ugliest door hardware mankind has ever invented. Brass finish that is shiny, also called US3 by the door industry.


Polished Brass Finish New	Polished Brass Finish (About 10 years old)

Polished Chrome:
Chrome finish that is shiny, also called US26 by the door industry. It looks just like the pewter finish, but it’s shinier.

Privacy:
Privacy bronze knobs or bronze levers are used on doors where locks are needed, such as on bathrooms, or bedrooms on interior doors. You probably don’t want to put a bronze privacy lever or bronze privacy knob on the bedroom door of a small child.

Right Hand:
Describes the way in which the door is hung on the jamb. Right Hand describes the side of the door the bronze handle is on as it is pulled towards you. As a door is pushed away, this would describe a bronze handle on the opposite side of the door. For Teague Products, the handing really only affects the entry sets. All of our other bronze hardware, such as dummy, passage, and privacy levers, can be adjusted to fit any handed door.

Roses
Plate behind lever or knob that holds the lever or knob in place. These are also called escutcheons (es-cooch-ins) or rosettes.

Rosettes:
Plate behind lever or knob that holds the lever or knob in place. These are also called escutcheons (es-cooch-ins) or roses.

Satin Brass:
Behind the polished brass, this is possibly the second ugliest door hardware finish you could ever have. Brass finish that is not shiny, also called US4 by the door industry. Teague does not sell this finish. We only sell bronze hardware.

Satin-Chrome:
Chrome finish that is not shiny, also called US26D by the door industry. Teague does not sell this finish. We only sell bronze hardware.

Strike Plate:
Plate attached to door jamb, which receives the latch, when the knob or lever is turned, allows the door to be closed or opened.

Tailpiece:
The galvanized piece of flat steel that sticks out of the back of the key cylinder. This is what slides into he bronze dead bolts and actually turns the crosshairs of the dead bolt latch.

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