The Useful Arts Employed in the Construction of Dwelling Houses. Second EditionAnonymous
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The Useful Arts Employed in the Construction of Dwelling Houses. Second Edition
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Architecture, Domestic; Building materials; Dwellings -- Design and construction
The inner edge of this frame is formed by a _plane_ into the half
moulding, of which the cross-bars present the entire section, so that
when the sash is completed, each panel, as it were, which is filled in
with the glass, is surrounded on its sides by a continuous moulding,
and on the other side of the frame each panel presents a _rebate_ in
which the glass lies. The annexed figure of the section of part of the
outer frame and one cross-bar, will make this clear.
[Illustration]
The cross-bars are made in lengths out of slips of wood, by a plane,
which first forms the mouldings and rebate on one side, and then by
turning the slip over, the same plane finishes the other with an exact
counterpart of the first. These bars are framed into the outer part of
the sash by delicate mortises and tenons put together in the manner
before described; but it will be seen by reference to the figure, that
the moulded part of the bar must unite to that of the outer frame, or
of another bar, by a _mitre_-joint, that is, by one which allows of
the lines of mouldings returning on the second piece, at right angles
to their direction on the first, without any interruption to the
continuity of the surface.
This and all analogous mitre-joints are formed by planing the ends
of the wood to form a face, making an angle of 45° with the axis or
length of the stuff, and the joiner is provided with a tool called a
_mitre-box_, consisting of a stock or frame, in which the stuff being
put, resting against one another’s surface, guides the plane so as to
cut off the end obliquely at the requisite angle. It is clear that
this mitre must be made on both faces of the bar, and therefore the
two mitre faces form a wedge-shaped termination by meeting at a right
angle, as shown in the last figure. Now, as besides the mitre end, a
tenon is to be left to fit into a mortise in the outer frame, it is
clear that the whole must be a very nice piece of workmanship to be
executed on so small a material as the thin bar of a modern sash.
The bevelled mitred end of the bar is received into a
corresponding-shaped notch cut the depth of the half moulding in the
outer frame to receive it, and at the bottom of this notch is the fine
mortise-hole intended to receive the tenon.
The bars of the sash can, of course, only be made in one length in one
direction, and the cross-bars which divide the long panels, formed by
these continuous bars, into the sizes of the glass, are made of similar
short pieces with mitred ends; but these ends, where they frame into
the long bars, have no tenon, the thinness of the stuff not admitting
of one, since the cross-bars come, end for end, opposite each other, on
the two sides of the upright bars.
It is evident that the long bars must be put together with the outside
frame, or else the tenons could not be inserted into the mortises made
in this last.
A second example of Joiner’s Work.
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