WOOD DOORS & IRON DOORS TERMS

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Batten door
A common name for braced and ledged and for ledged, framed, and braced doors, meaning just about any simple wrought iron door in which one side is made from battens. Wrought iron
nails are driven in from the face side of the door and clinched over on the battens and braces. The pattern of nails indicates the under lying ledge and brace structure.

Batten
Any converted timber that is between1 ½ and 2 inches thick and less than 9 inches wide. Mostly term refers to the vertical timbers on the outside of lodged wood doors. However, a batten has come to mean any small, thin board about 1 inch thick.

Brace
A member built into framed and batten wood doors-usually diagonally from corner to corner-to triangulate the frame and stop it from racking.

Bead
A small half-round molding used to decorate an edge, such as the beadings that are sometimes worked into the edges of panels and stiles.

Bolection molding
A large molded profile that is fixed to contain a panel, with the molding being rabbeted so that it projects beyond and laps over -he edge of the frame.

Bare-faced tenons
joints used on framed and batten doors to joint the end of the lock rail into the frame. One face of the rail runs flush, straight through to the end of the tenons; the other side has only one shoulder.