London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 513
as a tie toa roof, where a direct tie from plate to plate could not be intro-duced ; and, as far as I know, it is original. I introduced it inthis neighbourhood in the roof of a cottage, in a case where thewalls, having been carried up about 4 ft. above the floor of theattic story, a direct tie… … a bar of iron (about three quarters of an inch in diameter), whichpasses over the collar of the straining beam a, through a mortisein the tie b, and down through the floor-joist at c, and is tightenedwith a nut and screw at each end. Kingsgate Street, JVi?ic/iester, April, 1835. Art. IX. A new…
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