Mechanical exercises, or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plastering, painting, smithing, and turning . ^ Fzi/.&. ZanAnJ^M/ifJjW/nr?! ^/Mhom . JOINERY. 147 PLATE III. MOULDINGS. § 68. To draw the several Kinds of ^Mouldingsmade hy Joiners. An Astragal is a moulding of a semi-circularprofile, its construction is so simple that it wouldbe unnecessary to say any thing concerning 1. There are two kinds of Beads, one is call-ed a cocked bead, when it projects beyond thesurface to which it is attached. See Fig. % anathe othe


Mechanical exercises, or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plastering, painting, smithing, and turning . ^ Fzi/.&. ZanAnJ^M/ifJjW/nr?! ^/Mhom . JOINERY. 147 PLATE III. MOULDINGS. § 68. To draw the several Kinds of ^Mouldingsmade hy Joiners. An Astragal is a moulding of a semi-circularprofile, its construction is so simple that it wouldbe unnecessary to say any thing concerning 1. There are two kinds of Beads, one is call-ed a cocked bead, when it projects beyond thesurface to which it is attached. See Fig. % anathe other is called a sunk bead, when the sink-ing is depressed beneath the surface of the mate-rial to which it is attached, that is, when themost prominent part of the bead is in the santesurface with that of the material. Fig. 3. A Torus in architecture is a moulding of thesame profile as a bead, the only difference iswhen the two are combined in the same piece ofwork; the torus is of greater magnitude as ; in joinery the torus is always accompaniedwith a fillet. Fig. 5. single torus moulding. The Roman Ovolo or quarter round, as calledby joiners, is the


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