A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 485
entry, but the adjacent surfaces are much moreaccurately fitted, and are held in place by means of screwsor dowels—the former when the pieces joined arc broad and JOINERY. 10 thin, as in Fig. 1 (a), and the latter when the timbers areheavy and thick, or when they are joined together on thethinner… … Fig. 1. would be the case in an exterior casing for a window wherethe form shown at (d), Fig. 1, would be used, except thatthe top /i would rest iipon the sides/. . The plain butt joint, shown at Fig. 1 (a), is seldom usedin first-class joiners work, as the opening caused by shrink-age is very…
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