Common-sense stair building and handrailing (1903)
Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919 · Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co · leaf 25
le that applies to all winding stairs, that is, tomake them as near the width of the straight treads aspossible on the walking line. Locate the landing riserexactly half a step from the center of rail on landing,as shown at Fig. 15. This will bring the rail the sameheight on landing as it is in the… … Fig. 15 shows the plan of turnout steps, with railmitering into cap. The dotted curved line shows faceof string. The black line shows center of rail withtangent ABC at right angles to dotted radius. Fig. 16 shows thetangents in position onthe pitch. To constructFig. 16, take the pitch-board and…
Stair building · Hand-railing
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