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 290
steps narrower atoneend than at the other. In some stairs there are steps ofparallel width incorporated with the tapering steps ; in thiscase the former are called ^j^ers, and the latter winders. 260.—Itcgiilar Windings Stair§.—In Fig. 133, abed rep-resents the inner surface of the wall enclosing-… … Fig. 133. the last. Make e z^ equal to 18 inches, and upon ^, with 0 ifor radius, describe the arc i j \ obtain the number of risersand of treads required to ascend to the floor at j\ accordingto Art. 252, and divide the.arc ij into the same number ofequal parts as there are to be treads ; through…
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