The Sheet metal worker's instructor : for zinc, sheet iron, copper, and tin plate workers, and others, containing a selection of geometrical problems, also practical and simple rules for describing the various patterns required in the different branches of the above trades (1906)
Warn, Reuben Henry · Philadelphia : Henry Carey Baird & Co. · leaf 266
193 T'o find the template for a given Short Egg -end Spherical. Figure 68 is supposed to represent the egg-end, the plates for forming the same are to be over-lap jointed, the breadth of each plate to bear an equal portion of the whole circumference, saj \ part. Fig. 68. Fi«. 70. … Fig. 69. The method as laid down in the figures will be very easily understood from the following observa- tions. Suppose the greatest diameter of egg-end to equal 3 feet 111 inches, this divided by 2, gives 1 foot llf inches for radius. The circumference equals 12 feet 4:f inches, divided by 6…
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