Clyde, I believe what you are describing is a polar dial.  It is what a 
horizontal dial would look like if it were made for the equator.  The Lyman 
Briggs dial at the national bureau of standards is a polar dial.  I think you 
will have no trouble finding illustrations of this dial type in any of the 
standard dialling texts, and one picture will be worth a thousand of my 
words.  The hour lines do not intersect, and each runs north-south, all of 
them parallel to each other.  The shadow casting edge of the gnomon also runs 
north-south, parallel to the horizontal surface of the dial below, never 
intersecting it (in a non-polar dial the gnomon intersects the dial plane at 
6:00).

Bill Gottesman
Burlington, VT
44.4674 N
73.2027 W

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