Plumbing Problems: Or, Questions, Answers, and Descriptions Relating to House-drainage and PlumbingHenry Coddington Meyer Sanitary Engineer, 1885 - 244 pages |
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1½-inch 140 William Street 2-inch pipe air-pipe architect arrangement basement basin bath bath-tub Board of Health boiler bottom branch brass building carried cast-iron cellar cement cesspool chimney circulation circulation-pipe cistern clean closet cock coil cold water cold-water connected copper Cornelius Vanderbilt Croton diagram discharge double boiler drain drainage drawing earthenware empty faucet feet ferrule fixtures floor flow flow-pipe flue flush foul air fresh-air inlet galvanized-iron grease-trap ground-drain heat hot water hot-water pipe house-drain illustrated inches inches in diameter inside iron pipe joints kitchen lead pipe method overflow pass plumber plumbing pressure prevent pump rain-water range return-pipe roof SANITARY ENGINEER sewage sewer side sink sketch soil soil-pipe steam stoneware stop-cock street-pressure supply supply-pipe syphon tank tank-boiler tion upper urinal valve vent vent-pipe ventilated vertical warm waste pipes waste-pipe water-back water-closet trap water-supply York York City
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Page 224 - ... or of any work upon or about the building or premises upon which the said violation exists ; and no undertaking shall be required as a condition to the granting or issuing of such injunction, or by reason thereof. SEC. 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
Page 227 - All connections of lead with iron pipes must be made with a brass sleeve or ferrule of the same size as the lead pipe, put in the hub of the branch of the iron pipe, and caulked with lead. The lead pipe must be attached to the ferrule by a wiped or overcast joint.
Page 225 - This shaft should be, at least two and a half feet square. It should extend from the cellar through the roof, and should be covered by a louvered skylight. It should be accessible at every story, and should have a very open but strong grating at each floor to stand upon.
Page 224 - Health, no part of the work shall be covered or concealed in any way until after it has been examined by an inspector of the Board of Health, and notice must be sent to the Board when the work is sufficiently advanced for such inspection.
Page 225 - RULE 1. All materials must be of good quality and free from defects ; the work must be executed in a thorough and workmanlike manner.
Page 227 - Every safe under a wash-basin, bath, urinal, water-closet or other fixture must be drained by a special pipe not directly connected with any soil-pipe, waste-pipe, drain, or sewer, but discharging into an open sink upon the cellar floor or outside of the house.
Page 223 - The said board of health are also authorized to receive and place on file drawings and descriptions of the drainage and plumbing of buildings erected prior to the passage of this act.
Page 224 - Any court of record in said cities respectively, or any judge or justice thereof, shall have power at any time after the service of notice of the violation of any of the provisions of this act, and upon the affidavit of one of the...