Elongated dowel hinge for dutch door miniature stable facade

A modular wall front for a miniature shelter, which front comprises:

• a header beam, a threshold beam, and side rails affixed thereto for forming an essentially rectangular modular frame adaptable as a vertically oriented closure for an opening in said miniature shelter;
• a wall portion mounted on said modular frame;
• a full length door opening formed in said wall portion, with said door opening located adjacent at least one of said side rails of said modular frame;
• a miniature divided dutch door with upper and lower door halves hinged at the mid-point of a vertical hinge axis;
• each door halve having a frame covered by siding, which frame has a vertical style at the hinge side thereof;
• a dowel pin hinge slightly longer than the length of said door;
• fitted bores, relative to the size of said dowel pin, placed lengthwise in said vertical style of both of said door halves in order to form, for said divided doors, a binding hinge which has a longitudinal axis centered along the center of said dowel;
• exposed upper and lower stub sections of said dowel hinge extending beyond an upper and lower end of said vertical styles on said door frames;
• means fixably mounting said upper exposed stub section of said dowel pin hinge in said header and said lower exposed section of said dowel pin hinge in said threshold beam such that said door is swingably mounted to open and close said door opening in said wall portion of said modular wall front;
• means including said dowel pin for mounting said door halves in a vertical plane with one door halve located above the other dutch door halve such that said door halves have both swingability and lockability in position;
• said dowel hinge pin running substantially full length of a vertically-oriented door support style with said pin positioned at a forward location on the header and threshold beams in order to provide a swing space between the inner door surface and the outer surface of said wall;
• a door storage space along the front of said wall selected with a depth for receiving said divided dutch doors when same are swung fully open;
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• said swing space allowing the doors to open fully into said storage space along the wall of said modular front.

A modular wall front for a miniature non-habitation shelter such as doll houses, miniature stalls and similar sized shelters useful for child's play but which has characteristics that are not suitable for habitation, which front comprises:

• an essentially rectangular frame defining a vertically oriented door opening in said miniature shelter;
• at least one miniature dutch-type door halve vertically oriented in said door opening to cover about either the upper or lower half of said door opening;
• upper and lower door rails defining an upper and lower hinge corner on said dutch door halve;
• miniature dowel pin hinge means fitted in the upper and lower corners of said dutch-type door for fixably mounting said dutch door vertically within said opening;
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• said miniature dowel pin hinge means for said door, although swingably mounting said door on said dowel, are characterized by binding to provide lockability in that the door stays in any given position from fully closed to fully open or in between such open and/or closed positions.