A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 142
ledge to supportthe floor joists, by using a continuous brick corbel of threeor more courses. This mode of construction is shown inFig. 09. At a is the 4-inch brick corbel, of three courses ofbrick; /;, b shows the wooden floor joists; c is a strip of plankplaced between the floor joists to nail… … Fig. 99. has several advantages, one being that, in case of fire, thecorbels act as a fire-stop, largely preventing the spread ofthe flames from story to story; and, in case the floor joistsfall, they are inserted such a short distance in the wall thatthey will not have so much tendency to pull the…
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