A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 489
e projections on tlie piece bshould never be so slight as to be liable to break before theshearing strength of the wood across, or parallel with, thegrain is realized. There is still another factor entering into the strength ofa dovetail joint, and that is the adhesive strength of the gluewhich… … Fig. 8.13. Dovetail joints are of three kinds. One form, shownin Fig. 8, and known as the lap dovetail, has its dovetailson d^ and its dovetail pins projecting from the l3ody of thepiece b a distance equal to the thickness of the piece d. Theends of the pins and dovetails show on opposite sides of…
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