Recent cotton mill construction and engineering (1894)
Nasmith, Joseph · London : J. Heywood · leaf 40
ms and pillarsare given in the illustration. It is the ordinarypractice to form in one piece a cast-iron cap andbase for the upper and lower pillars, and secure themby a pintle also of cast iron. The base of thepillar should rest on an iron plate projectingabove the floor level. On the beams are… … 38 thick, or two thicknesses of asbestos paper, andabove this a second set of hard wood flooring boardsIJin. thick, with broken joints, is fixed. Thenails for securing the boards should be drivendown and not up, as the ends within the build-ing will condense moisture and drop. The roofis made…
Textile factories -- Design and construction · Cotton manufacture · Cotton machinery
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