Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 167
adoption of this mode of construc-tion, especially on churches, is that it is not always practicable tomake the plate continuous around the roof on account of gables,chimneys, etc. With gables, however, the difficulty can be over-come by using a flat steel plate, which can be built in the… … Fig. 194. one, and it should be borne in mind that with this construction, if asingle joint should fail, the stability of the whole roof would be en-dangered. With this construction the ceiling would naturally behung from the roof Traming, and its shape may be varied almost in-defmitelv. Another…
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