The Rudiments of the Art of Building: Represented in Five Sections: I. The General Principles of Construction; II. The Materials Used in Building; III. The Strength of Materials; IV. Use of Materials; V. Working Drawings, Specifications, and Drawings for the Use of Architects, Builders, Draughtsmen, Machinists, Engineers and MechanicsJohn Bullock Stringer & Townsend, 1853 - 180 Seiten |
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Seite 151 - That the entire length of drain is to be constructed and maintained with sufficient declivity towards the discharge into the sewer to enable the average proportion and quantity of liquid and solid matters committed to it to maintain a constant and uninterrupted motion, and that stagnation shall never occur.
Seite 136 - ... rule moved in every direction on the plaster while it is soft, for giving a perfectly plane surface to the second coat of work. Floats are of three sorts : the hand float, which is a short rule that a man by himself may use ; the quirk float, which is used on or in angles ; and the Derby, which is of such a length as to require two men to use it. Plaster, float, and set is the term for three coats of plaster on laths. The first or pricking-up coat is of coarse stuff put on with a trowel to form...
Seite 53 - Gothic ribbed vaulting is, however, constructed on a totally different principle. It consists of a framework of light stone ribs supporting thin panels, whence this mode of construction has obtained the name of rib and pannel vaulting. The curvature of the diagonal ribs or cross springers, and of the intermediate ribs, is not governed in any way by the form of the transverse section of the vault, and in this consists the peculiarity of ribbed vaulting. This will be understood by a comparison of figs.
Seite 26 - The lime and gravel should be thoroughly incorporated by being repeatedly turned over with shovels, sufficient water being added to ensure the thorough slaking of the lime without drowning it. Concrete should not be thrown into water, because ordinary stone lime will not set under such circumstances; and it should be carefully protected from any wash or run of water, which would have the effect of washing out the lime, and leaving the concrete in the state of loose gravel. Concrete made in the way...
Seite 110 - When a piece of timber, whose length is not less than 8 or 10 times its diameter, is compressed in the direction of its length, as in the case of a wooden story-post supporting a bressummer, it will give way if loaded beyond a certain point, not by crushing, but by bending, and will ultimately be destroyed by the cross-strain, just as a horizontal beam would be by vertical pressure applied at right angles to the fibres.
Seite 21 - ... the natural bottom, the inequalities of surface being first removed by dredging or blasting. 17. Pierre perdue. — The simplest mode of proceeding is to throw down masses of stone at random over the site of the work until the mass reaches the surface of the water, above which the work can be carried on in the usual manner. This is called a foundation of "pierre perdue," or random work, and is used for breakwaters, foundations of sea-walls, and similar works.
Seite 148 - ... one-third of linseed oil to two-thirds of turpentine. Painting on stucco, and all other work in which the surface is required to be without gloss, has an additional coat mixed with turpentine only, which, from its drying of one uniform fiat tint, is called a flatting coat.
Seite 134 - ... second course below, measuring from the nail-hole. In preparing slates for use, the sides and bottom edges are trimmed, and the nail-holes punched as near the head as can be done, without risk of breaking the slate, and at a uniform distance from the tail. The lap having been decided on, the gauge will be equal to half the distance from the tail to the nail-hole, less the lap.
Seite 68 - There is considerable waste of material ; the labor is great as compared with roofs of similar span of the ordinary construction ; and, as the chief strength of the rib depends upon the lateral cohesion of the fibres of the wood, it is necessary to provide such an amount of surplus strength as shall insure it against the greatest cross strain to which it can be exposed from violent winds or otherwise.
Seite 79 - ... the waste water, when, from any derangement in the working of the ball cock, the water continues running after the cistern is full To prevent any leakage at the bottom of the standing waste, the latter terminates in a brass plug, which is ground to fit a washer inserted at the top of the waste pipe. Where the supply of water is constant, instead of being intermittent, private cisterns may be altogether dispensed with; the main service pipes, not being required to discharge a large quantity of...