Recent cotton mill construction and engineering (1894)
Nasmith, Joseph · London : J. Heywood · leaf 83
lar window and a reduction of the brick piers,which practically makes them merely pilasters, asshown in Figs. 34 and 35, and the difficulty withwhich the constructor is at once met in this case isthat of carrying the upper floors entirely indepen-dently of the walls. As shown in Fig. 12, the… … Fig. 34. floors are carried on independent columns, which areplaced, as shown in the plan view in Fig. 35, in theangle of the window. The brick piers may be solid,or, as shown, hollow so as to serve for ventilating orheating flues, and the window frames are angularlydisposed, so that the light…
Textile factories -- Design and construction · Cotton manufacture · Cotton machinery
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