The carpenter's and joiner's hand-book : containing a complete treatise on framing hip and valley roofs ... (1888)
Holly, H. W. (Henry Wells) · New York : John Wiley & Sons · leaf 28
Fig. 12. Let a h (Fig. 12) be the given line. Drawthe line a at any convenient angle, to ah ;set the dividers any distance, as from 1 to 2,and run off on a as many points as youwish to divide the line a l into ; say Y parts; HAND-BOOK. 23 connect the point Y with 5, and draw thelines at 6, 5^ 4,… … Fig. 13. Let a and h (Fig. 13) be the given angles;set off from the points of the angles equalsdistances each way, and from those pointssweep the parts of circles, as shown in thefigure. Then a line from the point of theangle through where the circles cross eachother, will be the mitre line. 24:…
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