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 145
placeon the rake, as at J5, draw a c, at right angles to .-1 b ; also, from6, draw the horizontal line, b a ; place the thickness, d «, of themoulding at A, from b to a, and from a, draw the perpendicularline, a e ; from the points, 1, 2, 3, at A, draw lines to C, parallelto A b ; make o 1, a 2 and… … Fig 182. 3. at C, drop perpendiculars to the corresponding ordinates from1. 2 and 3, at A ; through the points of intersection, trace thecurve—this will be the proper form for the return at the top. SECTION IV.—FRAMING. 247.—This subject is, to the carpenter, of the highest impor-tance ; and…
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