Sloan's constructive architecture : a guide to the practical builder and mechanic. In which is contained a series of designs for domes, roofs and spires, with a number of plates showing the interior construction and finish of bays, window shutters, sliding doors, etc., designed expressly for the joiners use; choice examples of the five orders of architecture, selected fromthe most celebrated specimens of antiquity, with the figured dimensions of their height, projection and profile, and their division into parts,; to which is added a number of useful geometrical problems, examples of groins, centering for arches, diagrams of stair lines, with architraves, door mouldings, etc., the whole being accompanied by explanatory text and general essays, to which is appended a copious glossay (1859)
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 252
the required plane, also the semi-majoraxis, and the plumb-bevel, which is shown at A, and also at Fig. 4, Plate LXIII. To obtainthe bevel for the joint, draw/W, and where it intersects at V, draw VZ;P. The line that inter-sects at M is at rightangles to VP; and with M for a centre, draw the… … Sam- Slcar. Ar ■Rosen-tKaTs-Lj-lh IJ.U GLOSSARY. 137 Jack-Rafters.—The jack-timbers, wHcli are fastened to the hip-rafters and the wall-plates.Jambs.—The side pieces of any opening in a wall which bear the piece that sustains the super-incumbent weight. Joinery.—A term applied in building to…
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