Recent cotton mill construction and engineering (1894)
Nasmith, Joseph · London : J. Heywood · leaf 36
ch being sustained by the transverse girders,and acting merely as filling pieces. A new form offloor has been devised and patented in France andelsewhere, which is known by the name of the Hen-nebique system. In its essence it is founded uponthe utilisation of the principal characteristic… … FlG. 11. cordingly designed to utilise to the utmost thesepeculiar qualities of each material, and, as shownin Fig. 11, is characterised by the absence of thetransverse joints which are one of the main featuresof the ordinary English floor. As the tendencytowards flexure in concrete puts the…
Textile factories -- Design and construction · Cotton manufacture · Cotton machinery
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