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 185
as high as the top of the arch. Then, by using a horizontal tie-beam, the oblique strains will be entirely removed. Many a pub-lic building in this place and vicinity, has been all but ruined bythe settling of the roof, consequent upon a defective plan in theformation of the truss in this respect.… … 301.—Fig. 215 is a meihod of obtaining the proper lengths andbevils for rafters in a hip-roof, a b and b c are walls at the angleof the building: b e is the seat of the hip-rafter and «• / of ajack or cripple rafter. Draw e h, at right angles to b e, and makeit equal to the rise of the roof; join b…
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