The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 144
by the above directions. By this problem.a cornice can be proportioned according to a smaller given oneas well as to a larger ; but the method described in the previousarticle is much more simple for that purpose. 245.— To find the angle-bracket for a cornice. Let A, (Fig.180,) be the wall of the… … Vig. 181. lei with the wall,/d, draw the line, a b ; make e c equal a j.and through c, draw c i. parallel with e d ; join d and 6, and fromthe several angular points in B, draw ordinates to cut d b in 1, 2and 3; at those points erect lines perpendicular to d b ; from h.draw h g, parallel to/ a ;…
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