Recent cotton mill construction and engineering (1894)
Nasmith, Joseph · London : J. Heywood · leaf 42
in this country is toconstruct weaving sheds with the saw tooth roof,shown as applied to a spinning mill in Fig. 55.The construction of a weaving shed is compara-tively simple, the chief points being light and asufficiently good roof to keep out the rain. Themethod of construction adopted has the… … 40 face the north, because in that case no direct sun-light falls into the shed. The north face of theroof is therefore, substantially, glass and wood, whilethe south face is slated on timber rafters andprincipals. It will be noticed, in Fig. 13, thatthe glass face is arranged at an angle ofabout…
Textile factories -- Design and construction · Cotton manufacture · Cotton machinery
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