House Drainage and Sanitary PlumbingD. Van Nostrand, 1882 - 205 pages |
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Page 166 - Another form of edge-trap is found in Alaska, where the blades are attached to one end of a lever, the other end of which is inclosed in a torsion spring of rawhide. The animal stops to pick the bait pulls the trigger, and releases the unstable hook-catch ; the knives fly over and the victim is brained.
Page 65 - ... the drain, has been complied with. If a water closet is used or a pail emptied into a slop sink, the water •discharged into the soil pipes acts like a piston, and carries the air on its • course downward with it by friction. Thus the descending water drives the air before it, and out through the fresh air pipe. If this had not been provided it would very likely force the nearest traps, which are under the fixtures, and send a puff of sewer gas into the rooms.
Page 93 - They exclude the soil-pipe atmosphere to such an extent, that what escapes through the water is so little in amount, and so purified by filtration, as to be perfectly harmless...
Page 188 - ... being similarly tiled, there being no mechanism of any kind under the seat, is not only most cleanly and attractive in appearance, but entirely open to inspection and ventilation. The seat for this closet is simply a well-finished hardwood board, resting on cleats a little higher than the top of the vase, and hinged so that it may be conveniently turned up, exposing the closet for thorough cleansing, or for use as a urinal or slop hopper.
Page 63 - ... cause a more rapid current of air than prevails in an open pipe under similar conditions, but •without any cowl fitted on it. The only use of the cowls, therefore, appears to be to exclude rain from the ventilating pipes ; and as this can be done equally, if not more efficiently, in other and...
Page 63 - Kew, an elaborate series of about 100 experiments, on seven different days, at different times of the day, and under different conditions of -wind and temperature. After comparing the Cowls very carefully with each other, and all of them with a plain open pipe as the simplest and in fact only available standard, the Sub-Committee find that none of the Exhaust Cowls cause a more rapid current of air than prevails in an open pipe under similar conditions but without any cowl fitted on it. The only...
Page 107 - The ground-water is presumed to affect health by rendering the soil above it moist, either by evaporation or capillary attraction, or by alternate wettings and dryings. A moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to predispose to rheumatism, catarrh and neuralgia. It is a matter of general experience that most persons feel healthier on a dry soil.
Page 64 - ... of the soil pipe through the roof provides only an escape for the foul air generated in the soil and waste pipes through the decomposition of foul organic matter clinging to the interior and lodging in traps under water-closets and fixtures. But in order to oxidize and render harmless this organic matter undergoing putrefaction within the pipes, a constant introduction of fresh air from the outside atmosphere is necessary. There is a second and almost equally important reason for providing a...
Page 23 - ... laid on a smooth bottom, with a special groove cut in the bottom of the trench for each hub, in order to give the pipe a solid bearing on its entire length, and the soil well rammed on each side of the pipe.
Page 26 - In the Stanford joint tightness is obtained by casting upon the spigot and in the socket of each pipe, by means of moulds prepared for the purpose, rings of a cheap and durable material, which, -when put together, fit mechanically into each other...