Trade word
Patti
Patti is the flat, rectangular steel strip that borders a grill or a gate frame and backs a shutter box, and in this bazaar the word covers the whole rack of flat sections, thin or heavy.
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In EnglishMS flat, mild steel flat bar, rectangular in section
Ask for patti here and a fabricator already knows the shape: flat on both faces, no rib, no angle bend, sold as a straight length and cut on site. What changes call to call is the width and the thickness, since a light patti for a window grill and a heavy one for a gate hinge plate come off the same name. A mistri says the width first and the thickness second, twenty-five six or forty ten, and the order is read that way at the counter too.
It is sold by the metre and by the kilo, and a fabricator working out a grill or a gate frame usually wants both: the running length for the cutting list and the weight for the bill. Round patti and angle are not the same thing and do not answer to the same name; patti stays flat on both sides, where an angle carries a bend down its length.
How a patti is asked for
Chalis das ki patti, Nauhatta ke gate ke liye, das metre kaat dijiye.
Forty by ten millimetre flat, for a gate in Nauhatta, cut to ten metres. The width and thickness came first, the job second, and the length last, which is the order most patti calls follow here.
Where patti is bought and used
The rack it comes off, and the sizes a grill frame is usually built from.
Contact
Say the width, then the thickness
Give the two numbers the way a mistri would, then the cutting length, and the brand and rate are settled on the same call.
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