A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 162
the 4-inch wooden lintel cutto the required ciirve, and b the two-rowlock brick arch restingon the curve of the lintel. This arch is called a rclicvi)ig arch,because if there is any shrinking of the wooden lintel, therewill be no settlement of the brickwork, the arch carrying theweight of the wall… … Fig. 121. lintel, and a core of brickwork between the under side of thearch and the top of the lintel. This is shown in Fig. 121; a is the lintel, which may be 152 MASONRY. §7 either of wood or stone; b is the relieving arch, shown inthis case as a two-rowlock arch; and c is the brick corebetween…
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