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 308
Fig. 145. This simple method for obtaining the face-moulds for thehand-rail of a platform stairs appeared first in the early edi-tions of this work. It was invented by a Mr. Kells, an HAND-RAIL TO PLATFORM STAIRS. 269 eminent stair-builder of this city. A comparison with Fig,142 will explain the… … Fig. 146. instead of circular. The figure gives a perspective view ofa part of the upper and of the lower flights, and a part ofthe platform about the cylinder. The heavy lines, im, mc,and cj, show the direction of the rail, and are supposed topass through the centre of it. Assuming that the rake…
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