Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 152
es, of two pieces erf JOINTS, AND JOINING TIMBERS. 147 timber for tlio purpose of connecting them lengthwise. The usual method of scarfing bond and wallplates is by cutting about three-fiftlis through each piece, on the upper face of the one and the underface of the other, about 6 or 8 inches from… … ^ Notching is either square or dovetailed, and is made use of for connecting the ends of wall-plates andbond-timbers at tlie angles, in letting joists down on girders, binders, purlins, or principal rafters. Cogging, or cocking, is a species of notch extending on one side, and having a narrow cog…
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