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The American house carpenter. A treatise on the art of building. Comprising styles of architecture, strength of materials, and the theory and practice of the construction of floors, framed girders, roof trusses, rolled-iron beams, tubular-iron girders, cast-iron girders, stairs, doors, windows, mouldings, and cornices; together with a compend of mathematics. A manual for the practical use of architects, carpenters, stair-builders, and others (1880)

Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879, Hatfield, O. P., ed · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 275

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Fig. 124. Fig. 125. A plate of cast-iron between the abutting surfaces willequalize the pressure. Fig. 124 is a proper joint for a collar-beam in a smallroof: the principle shown here should characterize all tie-joints. The dovetail joint, although extensively practisedin the above and similar…

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