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 56
f the cornersat a distance of from four to six feet from the angle each way, with its ends dove-tailed into theplate. The joints of the wall-plate should in all cases be made under the tie-beams, and theseshould be notched into the plate. Figs. 2 and 3 show the angle and right-angle rafters,… … PRINCIPLES AND CONSTRUCTION OF ROOFS. 31 tion with the tie-heams. This, however, is not at all to be compared with the efifectof an unbroken arch. In many tie-beam roofs the form of tlie arch was entirelyomitted, a Icing-post, rising from the centre of the tie-beam, with curved bracesspringing…
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