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 387
ll of the -Let A {Fi^ building, and B the given bracket, 344 OULDINGS AND CORNICES. which, for the present purpose, is turned down horizontally.The angle-bracket, C, is obtained thus: through the ex-tremity, a, and parallel with the wall,/<^, draw the line a b;make^<: equal af, and through c… … Fig. 248. the ordinates, 10,20, etc., at B, and transfer them to C, andthe angle-bracket, C, will be defined. In the same manner,the angle-bracket for an internal cornice, or the angle-rib ofa coved ceiling, or of groins, as at Fig. 247, can be found. 323,—Raking Mouldings matched with Level…
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