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

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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$disconnected, 62, 69, 72, 75, 286, 312, 342 ; and hoi water, 301, 321 ; with open ends, 145, 321, 342 ; dis- charging into an open channel, 25 ; delivering into rain-water heads, 20, 345, on to a flat or gutter, 345 ; sound jointing with trap, 36 ; short length untrapped, 39 ; without traps, 4, 15, 64 ; carried up full size to roof, 148; foul, IS ; clean, 342; dirty • water, 145, 342; as ventilators, 17 ; liadly ventilated, 6 ; unventilated, 3 Waste-valves, too small, 16 Water, 377; contaminated, 6, 379 ; pure, 377 ; pond, 377 ; river, 377 ; well, 378 ; rain, 379 ; storage, 379 ; analysis, 398 ; action on leail, 399 ; boiled, 396 ; hard, 396 ; Clarke's process, 397 ; Porter-Clark process, 397 ; blown out of trap, I08, 136, 142 ; condensing on pipes, 159 ; test for drains, 12 ; flushings, good, 5, 6, 32 Water, air, and light, most essential, most inexpensive, Preface, 2nd ed. Water-closets, 186 — 267 Valve-dost is, 199—223 ;. Bramah, -194; Optimus, 155, 190, 199— 223 \_see also '• Optimus ] Wash-down, 224 ; Hygienic (Arti- san), 224, 230, 235 \_see also Hygienic ] ; Beggs, 230 ; Corbel isee Hygienic ] ; Dececo, 255 ; Sharp's, 230; Vortex, 255 Wash-otit, 142, 258 ; Bostell, Ex- celsior, 259; Doulton, Flush-out, 259 ; Jennings', Monkey, 258 ; Water-battery, 259 Misccl/aiieotis.—Yio\i'^e:t, 58, 106, 142, 229 (for slops, 274); Mann, 256 ; pan, ill, 193—198; seat- action, 414 ; trough, 264—267 ; syphon, 265 ; trapless, 261 ; Pearson, Twin-basin, 261 ; Jen- nings', 263 Water-closets, hreclay, 243—245 Vsee also Hygienic ] ; for prisons, asylums, etc., 244 ; free from the floor,248—253; enclosed,214; ladies, 213; gentlemen, 215 ; bed-chamber, ■ 209; on ground floor, 211 ; servants. 2, i86 ; and slops, 272 ; used as slop- closets, 208 ; badly used, 26, 407 ; capillary attraction, 202 ; as urinals, 211; modes of supply, 213, 219, 228 ; flushing, 266 ; supply separate from drinking water, 145 ; mechanical valves as plugs, 26 ; untrapped, evils, 25 ; with one seal, 202 ; evaporation, 179 ; unwholesome, 193 ; with table- top, 192 ; basin and trap in one piece, 188, 224; enclosures, 191 ; raised platform, 192, 204 ; in tiers, 143; action of discharge, 137 ; ornamental, 235 ; pull, 212 ; over- flows, 200, 204; safes, 234, 268 ; advantages of valve-closets, 200 ; experiments with, 117— 121; efficiency tested, 193; tests with, 155, 193- 457 ; positions, 2, x86 ; rooms, 186, 191; seats, 192, 212, 242, 246; walls and floors, 187, 191, 219. 242. 248, 251, 268 Water Companies, rules, 386 Waier-plug, 113, 137. i54 Water-seals, 4, 27, 29, 103, 106 ; loss of by syphonage, momentum, or evaporation, 5, 40, 103—142, 3J3 5 tests, 29, ammonia, 31, assafoetida, 31, ether, 31, gas, 30, peppermmt, 31, smoke, 31 Waler-shoot slop-sink, 147, 273, 276 Water-supply, limited, 402; fittings flimsy, 402 ; sizes of valves and ser- vices, 466; to water-closets, etc., 213, 219, 228, 385, 401. 408; by service-box, 380, 4 5 by valve and regulator. 381, 410 Water-waste-preventing cisterns, 213, 219, 414; double valve, 341, 415 5 syphon, 417 Water-waste-preventing valves, 213, 219, 411 \see also Valves] Water-Battery water-closet, 259 Weaver ventilator trap, 83 Weeping pipes, 270 Weights of lead pipes, etc., 466 Well water, 378 Wide-fronted urinal, 338 Wiped soldered joint, 169 Zinc, soil-pipe, 164 ; traps, 37 ? venti- lation tubes, 187$