Pintle Pintle A pintle is a pin or bolt, usually inserted into a gudgeon, which is used as part of a pivot or hinge. Other applications include pintle and lunette ring for towing, and pintle pins securing casters in furniture. Pintle/gudgeon sets have many applications, for example: in sailing to hold the rudder onto the boat; in transportation a pincer-type device clamps through a lunette ring on the tongue of a trailer; in controllable solid rocket motors a plug moves into and out of the motor throat to control thrust. In electrical cubicle manufacture, a pintle hinge is a hinge with
Jonbar hinge the term when reviewing S. M. Stirling's "In the Courts of the Crimson Kings". In Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" the jonbar hinge was the death of the main opponent to the King-Havenner Bill, which, if passed, would have allowed Jewish refugees to settle in Alaska. The jonbar hinge in "Bring the Jubilee," Ward Moore's 1953 novel of American Civil War alternate history, is Robert E. Lee's victory at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. The term is also used when describing an important upcoming event or decision humanity will have to make in the future. Jonbar hinge In science-fiction