What is the name for this kind of door handle?
They don't seem to be very common in the UK.
Daniele
Round door handle
Mar 25, 2009
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It's called a key-in-knob lock or just a knob lock and is very common in North America. Virtually unknown in the UK except in low security office environments and small hotels.
Having said that, ERA Security do them:
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you can buy em from Screwfix:
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They've been about for years. Swedish by origin. I first saw them here in the UK in the 1960s in hotels and institutional buildings. Very common. As to whether there is a name to the style, I don't know .
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Thanks.
So what do they call the versions without locks in?
Daniele
Just Door Knobs, really
They seem to call them "Mortice Passage|Privacy|Entrance Knob Set".
Daniele
unlocked.
In UK terms, the mechanism is a standard "tubular latch", which, via a standard square bar actuator works with all kinds of handles or knobs.
door knobs are often in the Georgian, Victorian or contemporary style.
Handy for bathrooms - without the need to cut additional holes in the door. A spray of white grease and they won't jam
I had to cut a 2 inch hole in the door to fit one of those.
Fortunately I kept the core in the toolbox and it was a simple matter to replace it with some woodfiller in the gaps
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