The American house-carpenter; a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials (1873)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 323
pos-sible ; and where it is practicable one piece should rest uponthe other, rather than be framed into it. This remark appliesto the bearing of floor-beams on a girder, to the purlins andjack-rafters of a roof, tfcc. 425.—In a framed truss for a roof, bridge, partition, &c.,the joints should… … Fig. 270. ting surface on the end of a strut should be at right angles tothe direction of the pressure; as at the joint shown in Fig.268 for the foot of a rafter, (see Art. 277,) in Fig. 269 for thehead of a rafter, and in Fig. 270 for the foot of a strut orbrace. The joint at Fig. 268 is not cut…
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