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 340
evolved upon the line i^^ j\^ into the horizontal plane, and BLOCKING-OUT OF THE RAIL. 30I then perpendicularly removed to the distance//^. The let-tering- corresponds with that in Fig. 165. The shaded partof D shows the end of the squared wreath. When theblocked piece has been marked by the… … Fig. 167. 285.—Face-Mould Curves are Elliptical.—The curves ofthe face-mould for the hand-railing of any stairs of circularplan are elliptical, and may be drawn by a trammel, orin any other convenient manner. The trouble, however,attending the process of obtaining the axes, so as to be ableto…
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