The plumber and sanitary houses : a practical treatise on the principles of internal plumbing work, or the best means for effectually excluding noxious gases from our houses / by S. Stevens Hellyer.

  • Hellyer, S. Stevens (Samuel Stevens)
Date:
1893
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Credit: The plumber and sanitary houses : a practical treatise on the principles of internal plumbing work, or the best means for effectually excluding noxious gases from our houses / by S. Stevens Hellyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. Access-shoe, 73 Air, demand alter discharge of closets, Airf^light, and water most essential, most inexpensive, Preface, 2nd ed. Air-chamber for drain-traps, 87 Air-cleansing, 173 Air-currents in soil-pipes, 166 Air-inducts to drains, 73, 78, 88, 181, 184, 253. 348-353 Air-shafts, 73, 76. 349—352, 366 Ammonia, test for water-seals of traps, 31 Analysis of water, 398 Anemometer, experiments on top of a soil-pipe, 156, 431 Angle lavatory, 308 Angle slop-sink, 278 Angle syphon flushing-cistern, 242, 417 Angus Smith, solution for cast-iron pipe, 162 Animal charcoal filter, 393 Annular syphon, Rogers Field, 6, 67 Anti-D trap, 52, 58, 61, 105, 139, 154, 201, 204, 224, 249, 280, 300, 313. 319. 330 Antill trap, 43 Anti-syphon trap, 140 Apartments for sanilary appliances, 144, 186 Apprenticeship, 462 Apron for pedestal closets, 217, 219 Artisan water-closet [see Hy- gienic ], 230 Asphyxiator (or smoke-test, 13, 31 Assafcctida test for water-seals of traps, 31 Astragals, and tacks, 425 ; jomtmg, 169 Asylums, water-closets, 244 Atmosphere, condensing on pipes, 159 ; contamination of, 8 ; Huxley on, 426 Automatic flushing, of drains, 67, 184, 365, 423, 456 ; of grease-traps, 94; of urinals, 340 ; of water-closets, 266 Ball-valve to flushing-tank, reverse action, 95 Barracks, water-closets, 244 Baths, 288 ; cast-iron, 289, 291, 294; copper, 293 ; marble, 294 ; porcclam, 294 ; tinned-iron, 294 ; combination, 293; Kufford & Cliff, 294; in bed- rooms, 290 ; in dressing-rooms, 290, 299 ; in kitchens, 289; enclosed, 291 ; without enclosure, 291 ; safes, 301 ; shallow, 292 ; shape, 293 ; sizes, 292 ; tiers of, 299 ; for flusliing drains, 296 ; overflows, 303 ; supply, 304 Bath-valves, Flap-valve, 297 ; danger of water-contamination with use of side valves, 305 Bath-waste>, 295 ; discharging with open ends, 299 ; and lavatory-waste combined, 313, 316 ; untrapped, 22 Beard & Dent, patent cast-lead trap, 50, 55, 140 Bean syphon water-waste-pre- venter, 418 Bed-chamber closet, 209 Bedrooms, ventilated, 146 ; with baths, 290; with lavatories, 307, 312 Beggs' water-closet, 230 Bell trap, 21, 36, 42, 324 Billiard-room lavatory, 340 Bins in scullery, slate, 326 Bird-guard to end of overflow-pipes, 271,301 Block joint, 168 Blow-downs, 41, 106, 180, 185, 187 Boiled water, 396 Bostell, Excelsior water-closet, 259 Bower trap, 105, 107, 114 Bow-fronted Optimus valve-closet, 215 [see also Water-closets ] Brackets, cast-iron for bracket-closets, 254 Bracket-closets [see Hygienic ] Bracket Hygienic water-closet [see Hygienic] Bramali valve-closet, 194 Branch connectors todrain-ttaps, 90, 353 Branch drains, long, 366 Brass ferrules, 39 Brick air-shafts, 350 Brick grease-trap, 325 Brick piers for iron drains, 361 Brush for cleaning closets, 405 Buchan, syphon-trap with check-valve, 59, 105 ; ventilating drain-trap, 82; ventilaling-cowl, 1S7, 433 Building, speculative, 9 Butlers' sinks, 319 Capillary r.ttraction and closets, 202 Caps and screws in traps, 42, 55