Attack of Fortified Places. Including Siege-works, Mining, and Demolitions.: Prepared for the use of the Cadets of the United States Military AcademyMercur, James
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Attack of Fortified Places. Including Siege-works, Mining, and Demolitions.: Prepared for the use of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy
Mercur, James
Defensive (Military science); Military engineering; Offensive (Military science); Siege warfare
In this way the gallery is advanced one gallery interval, usually
about 4 feet, when a second frame is placed. Its position is verified
by the score marks; for direction, by a line; for grade, by a spirit,
mason’s, or field level; and for verticality, by a plumb-line. It is
then secured in place by nailing battens to it and the preceding frame.
Wedges are inserted between the frame and the sheeting, and the gallery
is continued by the same methods (Pl. XII, Fig. 19). When the sheeting
is advanced only by hard driving the frames are slightly inclined to
the rear at first, and are afterwards driven forward until vertical.
=32.= If, while advancing the sheeting, the pressure upon it
becomes so great as to spring it, a _false frame_ (Pl. XII, Fig.
18) must be used. This consists of a cap-sill, ground-sill, and two
stanchions, connected by mortises and tenons. The stanchions have
tenons and the sills mortises at each end. The cap-sill is usually
rounded on top and, for facility in setting up and removing, its
mortises are longer than the width of the tenons. The latter are held
in place by wedges when the frame is in position. The false frame is
usually made of the same height as the common frames and, when side
sheeting is used, wider by twice the thickness of this sheeting. When
side sheeting is not used, its outside width may be equal to the clear
width of the gallery.
In using the frame (Pl. XII, Fig. 19) the ground-sill is first placed
accurately in position at a half interval in advance, the stanchions
are set up, and the cap-sill placed upon them and wedged. The whole
frame is then raised about 2 inches by folding wedges placed under
each end of the ground-sill, and is secured by battens. The sheeting
will now rest directly upon the cap-sill and stanchions, and have the
proper inclination to clear the next frame by its own thickness, as is
required.
The next frame is then set up, the wedges driven under the sheeting,
and the false frame removed; which is easily done, owing to its
construction.
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