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 185
s high as the top of the arch. Then, by using a horizontal tie-beam, the oblique strains will be entirely removed. Many a pub-lic building in this place and vicinity, has been all but ruined bythe settling of the roof, consequent upon a defective plan in theformation of the truss in this respect..… … FliT. 2iJ. 301.—Fig 215 is a meihod of obtaining the proper lengths andbevils for rafters in a hip-roof, a b and b c are walls at the angleof the building : & e is the seat of the hip-rafter and g f of a.jack or cripple rafter. Draw e h, at right angles to b e, and makeit equal to the rise of…
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