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 353
il. These being nailed to the bench, the rail will beheld steadily in its proper place for boring vertically. Thedistance apart that the balusters require to be, on the under-side of the rail, is one half the length of the rakc-sidc of thepitch-board. 314 STAIRS. SPLAYED WORK. 297.—The Bevel§ in… … Fig. 178. obtained Avill, therefore, here be shown. In Fig. IjZ, ab c\s>the angle at which the work is splayed, and b d, on theupper edge of the board, is at right angles to ^ ^; make theangle f g j equal \.o ab c, and from / draw f Ji parallel toe a; from b draw ^ ^ at right angles X.O a b\…
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