A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 453
Fig. 78.When great strength is required, it is sometimes advisableto make these fish-plates as large as their face pieces a, b, c, d,and miter their ends to an even joint, as shown in Fig. 79.The ends are secured in place by the tic-pieces / and thecaps g, while the center is strengthened by a… … Fig. 79. the semicircular center, their length being equal to the thick-ness of the wall in which the arch is to be built. 201. In all wood centers the joints between the differ-ent sections of the face pieces should always be in a lineperpendicular to a tangent at the point where the joint…
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