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 210
g. 247. 340.—If the rafters and struts were made to abut end to end,as in Fig. 245, 246 and 247, and the king or queen post notchedon in halves and bolted, the ill effects of shrinking would beavoided. This method has been practised with success, in someof the most celebrated bridges and roofs in…
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