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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    pieces to soil-pipe trap, 77, 78 ; slop- sinks, 280; defective dips, 35, 44; outside houses, 37 ; open, in cold countries, 74; soil-pipe, in open places, 79, confined places, 78 ; dis- connecting soil-pipes from drains, 75—79 ; disconnecting drains from sewers and cesspools. So; branch connectors for drains, 90; close to fitting, 39 J enlarged mouth, 40, 320; caps and screws, 42, 55 ; allow fittings to be removed, 28 ; used for a long period, 29 ; water-seals, ex- periments, 29 ; good water-seal, 27 ; self-cleansing, 5, 27 ; principles, 40 ; non-cleansing, 27, 28 ; errors in trapping, 4 ; syphonage of, 5, ic6, 141, 280 ; syphonic action, . 57 ; broken seals, 103 ; water blown out, ro8, 136, 142 ; loss of water-seal, 5, 40, 103—142, 313; that may be safely used, 41 ; frost, 41 ; sewer- gas, 31, 33; eaten through by gas, 3, 47 ; double and treble to pipes, 4 ; two destroying each other, 109 ; prevent pipes becoming ventilation pipes, 60; too large, 346; surface, 142 ; ventilation, 103—142 ; vented individually, 107 ; in tiers, 108; vented from top, 109, no, 139, 201 • unventilated, 5, 153; ignorance in venting, 104 j ignorance in selecting, 103 ; guUeys, 18, 20, 64, 342 ; Dr. Carmichael on, 33 ; experiments with, 61, no—136, 154; cleansing, experiments, 61 Trenches for drains, 360 Triple-dip trap, 62 Trough water-closets, 264—267 [see also Water-closets ] Trumpet plug for lavatories, 309 Trumpet waste, 309, 327 ; guard, 327. Twin-basin water-closet, 26 Tylor, water - waste - preventing valve, 341 U-shaped traps, 57, 61 Unsealing of traps by syphonage, 5 Untrapped, drains, 2; waste-pipes and soil-pipes, 4, 15, 64; conductors of air into house, 17; bath-waste, 22; lavatory-waste, 18 j sink-waste, 21 ; water-closets, evils of, 25 Unventilated waste- and soil-pipes, 3 Urine, 159, 332 Urinals, 332 ; Lip, 337 ; syphon, 333 ; Wide-frunted, 338 ; door-action, 340 ; private, 332; public, 332 ; stalls, 332; three-stalled, 339; basins, 333, 337 ; ranges, 334 ; floors, 336 ; steps, 336; slate channels, 338; use of soda, 341 ; supply, 340 ; wastes, 339 ; detachable waste-pipes, 339 V-dip trap, 50 Valves, sizes ol supply, 466 ; Feather- waste, 115 ; Flap-valve, 297 ; leaky, 167 ; to water-closets, mechanical, 26; water-waste-preventing, 213, 219, 341 ; Lambert, 341 ■ Tylor, 341 Valve and regulator supply, 381, 410, 467 ; for sinks, 275 Valve-box vent, 200, 202, 204, 456; receiving overflow, 200, 204, 206, 208 Valve-closets [see '' Optimus ''] ; Bow- fronted Optimus, 215 ; Bramah, 194; advantages of, 200 ; protective seals, 201, 202 ; fan-spreader, 208 ; with- out overflow-trap, 207 ; on ground floor, 211 ; as urinals, 2H ; experi- ments with, 117—121, 155 Valve-flaps to sewers, 5, 349 Vegetable washers in scullery, 326 Ventilation, 4, 6, 426 ; bedrooms and staircases, 146; drains, 367, 455 ; sink places, 321 ; soil-pipes, 6, 171 ; traps, 103—142 ; individually, 107, in tiers, 108; from top of outgo, 109, no, 139; waste-pipes, 6; water- closets, 186, 1S7 ; pipe passing through roof, 175; inlet and outlet, 187. 367 ; foot, 172, 180 ; of valve- box, 200, 202, 204, 456; experi- ments, 171 Vent-pipes, material, 371, 455 ; down current of air, 106; increased in bore, 253 ; errors in fixing, 455 ; connection with drain, 369, 455 ; badly positioned, 6, 13, 375 ; badly terminated, 373 Ventilating terminals, badly positioned, 375 Ventilating drain-syphon trap, Sr ; and sewer-interceptor, 85 Ventilating drain-trap, Buchan, 82 Ventilator trap, Weaver, 83 Ventilating-cowls, 41, 142, 175, 180, 187, 234, 373 [see Cowls ] Vortex water-closet, 255 Walker, wrought-iron tinned pipe, 391 Walls, scullery, 326 ; water-closets, 187 Waring, experiments with traps, in; sewer-gas check-valve, 59, 105 Wash-basins, ranges, 313 Wash-down closets and evaporation, 179 [see Water-closets] Wash-out closets, 258 ; and evapo- ration, 179; demerits of, 259; closet and trap, two pieces, 258 Wash-up and slop-sink combined, 275 Waste-pipes, from baths, 295 ; discharg- ing with an open end, 299 ; from cisterns, 387; Irom lavatories, 306, 313 ; from sinks, 321, 329 ; with open ends, 321 ; from slop-sinks, inside, 286, outside, 285 ; from urinals, 339 ;