Framing Cone Shaped Roof

In this case the cone roof was surrounded by a protective wall a parapet or a battlement.

Framing cone shaped roof. Either of these molds can be used to make conical roofs for 3 4 6 and 8 diameter towers. Both of these molds contain the same basic block shapes. When well spiked together they thus form a continuous ring to resist the outward thrust of the rafters. The plate should be cut out of wide planks and always made of two thickness put together so as to break joint.

Mansard roofs are a type of hip roof where each sloping section is divided in two. Framing of conical roofs. It wouldn t have a diameter of 8 5 untill about 6 10 above his top plate. Small conical roofs such as are frequently used on small circular towers are best framed as shown in fig.

More rarely they were made of masonry. A small circular turret or tourelle with a conical roof is called a pepperpot or pepperbox turret. Such conical roofs were usually constructed using a timber framed support structure covered with slate. Conical roof framing actually via the formula below an octagonal structure with 8 5 foot legs will have a diameter of 22 2 1 2 between apexes.

The main difference between these two molds is the texture of the shingles. To create maximum space under the roof the section near the walls rises steeply. There are 2 kindsof conical roof molds.