The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 253
the top and bottom and the sides is mademuch more substantial by triangular pieces of thick plate, whichare rivetted in across the corners. These are technically calledgusset-pieces; they are intended to enable the tube to resist thecross or twisting strain, to which it w ill be exposed, from the… … tances of 4 inches apart in the top and bottom, and 3 inches in thesides. They are rather more than an inch in diameter, and areput into the holes red hot, and a head formed by beating up the]irojecting end of the hot rivet by heavy hammers, the operationbeing finislied by a steel tool, with a…
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