auxiliary rafter

Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/ / 0 comments

In a truss, a rafter used to stiffen the principal rafter as by doubling it, or, as in a queen post truss, to go from the tie beam to the queen post, thus doubling the sloping chord of the truss in that place. (Sturgis, 1900)

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