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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 306

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rail, mark its form upon theplank, and saw square through; then chamfer the wreath toan octagonal form, after which carefully remove the anglesso as to produce the required round form. The joints, as wellas the curved edges, are to be cut square through the plank. Many more lines have been used in… … Fig. 143. for fage-moulds of platform stairs with small cylinders willnow be shown. 269.—More iSimpIe Method for Mand-Rafl to PlatformStairs.—In Fig. 144, jge represents a pitch-board of the firstflight, and d and i the pitch-board of the second flight of a plat-form stairs, the line <?/being…

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