The American house carpenter: a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 175
ering at the angles of rooms. For the same reason, afirm connection with the ceiling is an important object in the con-struction of a partition. 282.—The joists in a partition should be so placed as to dis-charge the weight upon the points of support. All oblique piecesin a partition, that tend not… … \}.\\i\ J Fijr. 207. construction is simple but effective. Fig- 207 shows the mannerof constructing a partition having doors near the ends. The trussis formed above the door-heads, and the lower parts arc suspendedfrom it. The posts, a and Z>, are halved, and nailed to the tie, c d,and the sill,…
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