Similar boards may be used for the outside of the snuggery, being nailed to the uprights at the back and sides, as shown in Fig.
The uprights and principal cross-pieces are 7/8 in.
On the outer circle sixteen of the uprights and six of the surmounting stones forming the ring remain in their original positions.
Within this, again, was the grandest part of the structure--a great ellipse formed of five triplets of stones or trilithons, each composed of two uprights and one placed crosswise.
Around the uprights ropes were wound making a rude but safe conveyance.
The buoy consisted of a rude platform with uprights at its four corners, to the top of each of which a pulley was securely fastened.
This should likewise be notched in a similar manner on both sides of each end, so as to fit singly into the notches in the uprights on the one side, and into the second pair of uprights [Page 30] on the other.
Each one of the uprights may then be secured in place by two long brads, one being hammered each way into each side of the notch.
These should now be punched with holes corresponding with those above, after which they may be inserted between the uprightsas seen in the engraving, and secured by a brad at each end.
The spaces between the uprights were then filled in with lath and plaster, flush with the wood-work.
In later times these timbers were wider apart, and curved or diagonal braces were often used, but at first the uprights were pretty closely set.
There are faint scars at the intersection of some of the shelves and uprights which may be screwholes--but I cannot feel certain on the point.
Ends of top piece secured to uprights by being mortised or halved and bolted together.
The mine was timbered, with uprights and overhead beams spaced about every ten feet.
One pair of uprights arose from the sloping pile of rock to a sound crosspiece.
The uprights that support the roofs are the peeled trunks of young breadfruit trees.
The rafters run from the top of the posts to the roof-tree, which is supported by four or five uprights set in the centre of the floor-space.
A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like.
Defn: A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
Defn: In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another.
Half-way down the uprights had been four girders binding the uprights together.
A few of the plates clung to the uprights in the upper section of the tank.
The base of the tank was eight feet square, the height of the uprights ten feet.
Binding the top of these four uprights together had been a substantial rail.
The longitudinal timbers are supported between each two uprights by an iron rod that rests upon a block of stone fixed in the ground.
They consist simply of woodenuprights to which are affixed cross-pieces that support an impermeable canvas.
The front and hind uprights differ only in length, and the roof timbers are joined at their upper extremities.
A series of wooden pipes standing on uprights led from this up to the cliff.
About three feet above the ground, an interwoven bamboo floor is lashed to the uprights (Plate XXVII).
The uprights and other target framing should set against the back side of this pit.
Over each set of alternating targets and attached to a cross piece at the top of the uprights should be placed large numbers from 3 to 10 inclusive, for marking each target.
This method presupposes that the uprights are all planed the same thickness.
When all the sticks are fitted together, glue the braces to the uprights 4-3/8" from the ends; two frames are thus made just alike.
Keep the brads near the center of the uprights lest they split the curves.
To make them so, the two uprights must be clamped together while boring the 3/8" holes for the axles.
As shown in the drawing it consists of two boxes, uprights connecting the two, and a wheel with paddles swung on an axle between the uprights.
At least one of the uprights must be screwed to the base.
One shown on Plate 13 has a female head on theuprights of the arms, which represents Mary of Modena.
Better nail a block 2 x 4 between the tops of the uprights to keep them from spreading apart, then it is ready all except the triggers and string for them to run against.
These must be driven very hard in the ground and a throat piece put in level between the uprights across the path from side to side.
For very long rows of trees the top cable needs to be supported by intermediate trestles besides the uprightsat the ends.
The upper part of the column, containing its four rooms, was by no means so strong as the lower part, being composed chiefly of the timberuprights in which the building was encased from top to bottom.
Strong timber uprights with cross-braces of railway iron served to make the fence secure, a doorway being left to afford means of communication with the prisoner's quarters.
This was accordingly done, the beds being raised from the ground by means of two stout planks lashed to short uprights driven firmly into the earth.
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