Stable building and stable fitting : a handbook for the use of architects, builders, and horse owners by Giraud Byng

Author:Giraud, Byng
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses, Stables, Architecture
Publisher: London : B.T. Batsford
Published: 1891-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

PA VING.

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yard are required, viz. 120, and they weigh 20 cwt. per 1000. The clinkers above described have a sandy surface, and a very agreeable colour, varying between a pale yellow and a deep orange. K brown Welsh pavior is also manufactured, chamfered on all the edges for reversing, and measuring 8 inches by 2f inches by 2f inches; 60 of these will cover one yard super, and 1000 weigh 37 cwt. These are made of the same size in 6 panels, with semicircular grooves, but in this form they weigh only 36 cwt. per 1000. Other varieties of these bricks are to be obtained, composed, it is said, of the identical clay from which the Roman pottery and bricks were made, most of them either chamfered or traversed by V or semicircular grooves as in Fig. 30. The latter, where laid in a diagonal direction with a central groove, or open surface gutter, are most easily kept clear. This is illustrated on Plate 6, and on Plate 13, in the stall d. The grooves may have a maximum slope of \ inch in their length, equal to I in 96. Fig. 31 exhibits a specially splayed brick to

Fig. 30.

Fig. 31.

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