The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 221
n, the frame being of light bars, the fillingup of wire or small rods. The principle on which they areconstructed is, that all the portions requisite for filling up thegate, and which generally only add to its weight and cumbrous-ness, shall be made to act as stays or strengtheners to brace upthe… … greatest strength, will sustain without injury four or five timesthe pull to which, in gates, they have ever any chance of beingexposed. Of the simplest and cheapest of these, which is merelythe skeleton of the more expensive and complex one, the adjoin-ing is a representation. Fig. 35. represents…
