Common-sense stair building and handrailing (1903)
Fred T Hodgson · Frederick J. Drake and Co. · leaf 133
he fraction, and theresult will be the exact rise. For instance, let theheight of the story be 10 ft. 6 in., and the proposedriser 6y2 in. 10 ft. 6 in. = 126 in. + 6j4 in. = 19 with5 remainder; then 126 in. + 19 = 6| in. full as the rise,and the proper ratio of going to this, as found by thefirst… … the step is given,the exact rise isobtained by cal-culation, thus: Re-duce the totalheight to inches,and divide it bythe desired rise.If there is no re-mainder, the divi-sor will be exactrise, and the quo-tient will be thenumber of risers Fig. 32. FOURTH METHOD 129 for the last riser. No arbitrary…
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