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upwards, "just" on the side of the gate-post which looks 

 towards the gate. 



The " driving-hook," Fig. i, is rather long, and the 

 gate heavy, so that when it is opened and shut again it 

 comes to rest by its own gravity or weight, just so that 

 the latch falls again into the notch in the hapse for it, 

 Fig. 4. The hapse ought to be fastened on to the gate- 

 post, so that N O, Fig. 4, is horizontal. The latch is 

 not made to reach farther than the latitudo transver salts, 

 or breadth at top of the hapse, so that it may be able to 

 pass backwards and forwards and not strike against the 

 gate-post. 



Another kind of klinka, " gate-latch," is shown in 



Fig. 5. Aker-grindarna, the gates of arable fields 

 are for the most part exactly like our gates, and swing 

 on similar hinges and gate-hooks. E F is an iron spike, 

 et jam, driven horizontally into the side of the gate. 

 A C is another iron, which hangs perpendicularly, but 

 [T. I. p. 363] rides on an iron-pin, jarn-nagel, at 

 B, so that its under side E A can be bent in towards the 

 latch-post of the gate, but not outwards from the gate 

 farther than the perpendicular position. When the 

 gate is open, and it is afterwards shut, the hapse, klinkan, 

 Fig. 4 which is fixed to the gate post so that its notch 

 faces the gate, strikes against the latch-tongue C A, Fig. 5, 

 between E and A, when it bends its lower end A in 

 towards the gate, and as soon as the notch in the hapse is 

 reached, och sa snart Klinkan gatt langre in, it 

 falls by its own weight back into the perpendicular 

 position, and the gate cannot be opened again, before 

 one bends either A inwards or C outwards so far that 

 A C becomes nearly parallel with E F, Fig. 5. At D is 

 a projection, en hake, as far as which this iron spike 

 E F is driven in to the side of the latch-post of the gate, 

 because otherwise the pin at B might be damaged while 



