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
Fig. 248. Fig. 249. 341.—Fig. 248 is a proper joint for a collar-beam in a smallroof: the principle shown here should characterize all tie-joints.The dovetail joint, although extensively practised in the aboveand similar cases, is the very worst that can be employed. Theshrinking of the timber, if…
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