Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 169
ous kinds of buildings, differing from each otherchiefly in the arrangement of the tension and compression piecesof which they are composed. Some are built entirely of timber,while in others timber is employed only for the compression pieces,and wrought iron or steel for the tension pieces. Fig.… … Fig. 196. King-Post Truss. Fig. 197. Queen-Post Truss. the purlins are illustrated in this figure. As will be readily seen,some of them are set so that their longer dimension, in cross sec-tion, is vertical, while others are set so that the longer dimensionis at rio-ht ancrles to the rafters. Both…
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