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 316
, Fig. 154, the figure ofthe rail as show^n, the vertical line upon the template beingmade to coincide with the Wnejk. From n and h draw thevertical lines h in and In parallel with jk. Now, as to the other end of the square block : Let b cfe.Fig. 155, represent the block, of which bcvn is the form… … from ^and Ji draw the vertical lines Ji rand ds parallel withpq. Place the template on bcvn, the end of the block, sothat the vertical line throusfh its centre shall coincide withpq; mark its form, then from j, at mid-thickness, draw iv yparallel with / q. In applying the mould, let Fig. 156…
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