Architectural iron and steel : and its application in the construction of buildings, including beams and girders in floor construction, rolled iron struts, wrought and cast-iron columns, fire-proof columns, column connections, cast-iron lintels, roof trusses, stairways, elevator enclosures, ornamental iron, floor lights, and skylights, vault lights, doors, and shutters, window guards and grilles, etc., etc., with specification of ironwork and selected papers in relation to ironwork, from a revision of the present law before the legislature affecting public interests in the city of New York, in so far as the same regulates the construction of buildings in said city, tables selected expressly for this work, of the properties of beams, channels, tees and angles, used as beams, struts and columns, weights of iron and steel bars, capacity of tanks, areas of circles, weights of circular and square cast-iron columns, weights of substances, tables of squares, cubes, etc., weights of sheet copper, brass and iron, etc (1892)
Birkmire, Wm. H. (William Harvey), 1860-1924 · New York Wiley · leaf 87
ver the stone from one to two inches in thickness.Set the base plate in its proper place, ramming it down solid,true and level. 117. Cast-iron Dowels for Wooden Columns.—Woodencolumns connected by iron dowels are equally as objectionableas dowelled iron columns. The doxvels for the former are… … The lip on plate at A is usually \\ inches, and the lower lip{E) 2 inches by f of an inch thick. 118. Wrought-iron Pins and Cast-iron Star-shapedDowels—are also used similarly to the above. In each case the holes for inserting the dowels are firstbored through the wooden girder before setting same…
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