A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 264
sinkbelow the others, and rendering it difficult to secure a flatsurface for the ceiling. Furthermore, if any block be brokenor removed, the row will fall, there being no longitudinalbond, as in side-method arches. To obtain good bearings,the blocks should bear evenly against one another, beingcut,… … Fig. 78. Fig. 78 shows a form of block in which greater bearingsurface is provided than that represented in Fig. 77. These 94 MASONRY. §8 blocks are made of dense tile, and have braced top and bottomflanges f inch thick, the webs and central horizontal partitionbeing i inch thick. A section of the…
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