Identifier: vannostrandseng271882newy (find matches)
Title: Van Nostrand's engineering magazine
Year: 1879 (1870s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: (New York : D. Van Nostrand)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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r K SYSTEM OF HOUSE DRAINAGE. O O are earthenware wash bowls withl^-inch waste pipes and overflow pipes oflead, trapped by Cudells or Bowerstraps, and delivering into 4 x 2 Ybranches of soil pipes. P is a pantry sink, of heavy, tinned and planished copper, with overflow and 1Jwaste pipe of lead trapped by a Bowerstrap and entering a Y branch of soil pipe.Q are cement stone or ceramic washtubs, with \\ waste pipe, and trappedby a Bowers trap. BOUSE DRAINAGE AND SANITARY PLUMBING. 407 . li is an all earthenware flushing-rimslop hopper, trapped by a vented S-trap,ami flashed from a special cistern. S is the kitchen sink, of galvanized orenamelled iron,or of earthenware,trappedby an 1J Bowers trap with 1£ leadwaste pipe. T is a hath tub, of enamelled iron,or heavy planished copper or of porce-lain. It is provided with a standingwaste, and trapped by an 1J Cudellrunning trap. T is a small hip bath, ofcopper, provided with overflow and 14waste pipe, trapped by a vented S-trap. V is a 2-inc

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