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 357
sions of the more important by the aboverule, and make the narrower doors of the same height asthe wider ones; as all the doors in a suit of apartments,except the folding or sliding doors, have the best appear-ance when of one height. The proportions for folding orsliding doors should be such that… … Fig. 179. for opening the doors; also, the height should be about onetenth greater than that of the adjacent single doors. 300.—Panels.—Where doors have but two panels inwidth, let the stiles and muntins be each J- of the width ; or,whatever number of panels there may be, let the unitedwidths of…
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