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 362
iquely to the face of thewall, occasioned by the demand for light in an obliquedirection, the form of the soffit Avill be obtained by the fol-lowing article ; as also when the face of the wall is circular,as shown in the succeeding figure. OBLIQUE SOFFITS OF WINDOWS. 32 308.—Form of Soffit for… … Fig. 181. From a, through e, draw ag at right angles to ^^; obtainthe sti-etch-out of efa, and make ^^equal to it; divide egand efa each into a like number of equal parts, and dropperpendiculars from the points of division in each; fromthe points of intersection, i, 2, 3, etc., in the line ad, f e…
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