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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 60

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ated by the extent of the span ofthe roof. The following table gives the dimensions necessaiy for the several timbers in a roof of seventyfeet span:— Tie-beam, (supporting angle-rafters) 9X16 inches. Principal-rafter to do. . . . 9X16 Camber-beam (( 9X16 Quceu-posts ti 14X14 Braces It 8X 8… … Sam^ SIcELD. Jorcti^ PRINCIPLES AND CONSTHrCTION OF ROOFS. 33 tenoned. Thirdly, hammer-beam roofs having collar-beams and no struts; and lastly,those which have neither collar-beams nor struts. The following is an example ofthis description, in which the arched brace is formed of three pieces of…

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