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CHAPTER VII. 



FITTINGS AND DETAILS. 



Separation in stables — Cast and wrought iron details — Stall divisions — 

 Ramp panels — Portable partitions — Safety bars — Heel-posts and 

 pillars — Ramps and posts — Fixing posts — Loose box partitions — Loose 

 box doors — Door frames — Swing doors — Latches and locks — Locking 

 bolt — Bales — Safety hooks — The Malet bale suspender— Safety catch — 

 Cleating — Double cleating — Kicking-boards — Mangers — Manger posts 

 — Wrought-iron mangers — Water fittings — Crib-biting — Safety mangers 

 — Hayracks — Loose box sliding bars — Halter tying — Smithy fittings 

 — Hearths, bellows, &c. — Vice bench — Harness-room — Heating ap- 

 paratus — Boilers — Open boilers — Girth stretchers — Saddle airers — 

 Saddle-horses — Clothes press — Harness — Harness brackets — Coach- 

 houses, warming, &c. — Coach-house doors — Hinges and fastenings — 

 Gate stops — Corn-stores — Machines for food — Food supply — Corn-bins 

 , — Preparing food, motive power — Horse-power — Gas engine — Hoisting 

 and gear — Jacob's ladder — Hayloft doors — Hanging and sliding doors — 

 Water supply — Washing apparatus — Valves — Gas supply — Oil lamps. 



Horses are separated in the stables either by boarded parti- Separation in 

 tions, otherwise known as traversers, by poles, chiefly used in stables, 

 cavalry stables, or by bales. In first-class stables the partition 

 usually consists of an ornamental heel-post, an iron grating, or 

 ventilating ramp, as it is called, with a top and intermediate 

 rail j and a sill which receives the bottom ends of ^the boards, 

 the top ends of which fit into a groove in the underside of the 

 intermediate rail, as shown on Plate i8. Fig. 2 



Great varieties of these details are now manufactured in Cast and 

 wrought as well as in cast iron, and are consequently lighter and wrought iron 

 yet stronger than cast-iron fittings. The objection that the 



