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Ridge and furrow roof.
Paxton in a large greenhouse at chatsworth and in several other places.
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As used by paxton at the crystal palace london 1851.
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The netherlands developed a ridge and furrow structure called the venlo greenhouse see figure 1 7.
The top end of each rafter is cut at an angle so that it meets flush with one broadside of the ridge board and the ridge is sandwiched between the rafters.
Great exhibition of 1851 crystal palace hyde park london.
The earliest examples date to the immediate post roman period and the system was used until the.
The galvanized steel superstructure supports a gable glass roof.
He used hollow pillars doubling as drain pipes and designed a special rafter that acted as an internal and external gutter.
The roof appears to consist of a number of span roofs joined together as shown.
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The venlo was designed to use single panes of glass from the peak to the gutter rather than lapped glass and uses no purlins or girts in the roof structure thereby.
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The ridge and furrow roof.
Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges medieval latin sliones and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in europe during the middle ages typical of the open field system it is also known as rig or rigg and furrow mostly in the north east of england and in scotland.
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Roof composed of a series of ridges and furrows e g.
The idea of a roof of this kind which was first suggested in the encyc.
Though many styles of connected greenhouses exist the most popular type is a ridge and furrow connection.
With a cheap and light wooden frame the conservatory design had a ridge and furrow roof to let in more light and drained rainwater away.
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