The American house-carpenter; a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials (1867)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 322
h the truss will be madeto settle further; and this pressure not being in the axis of therafter, it will be greatly increased, thereby rendering the rafterliable to split and break. 426.—If the rafters and struts were made to abut end toend, as in Figs. 271, 272 and 273, and the king or queen… … <^- Fig. 271. Fig. 272. /U Fig. 273. rope ; and, were its use adopted in this country, the unseemlysight of a hogged ridge would seldom be met with. A plateof cast iron between the abutting surfaces will equalize thepressure.
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