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... BATHS AND LAVATORIES . Overflow arrangements - Secret overflows - Use of a bath in washing out the drain - Lead safes and their overflow pipes - Plug and washer - Tip - up basins - One trap to one basin - Waste - pipes from baths and ...
... BATHS AND LAVATORIES . Overflow arrangements - Secret overflows - Use of a bath in washing out the drain - Lead safes and their overflow pipes - Plug and washer - Tip - up basins - One trap to one basin - Waste - pipes from baths and ...
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... baths , slop - sinks , or any kind of copper vessel , only require to be scoured and made clean and bright for melted tin to readily tin upon them ; though , for removing the last film of oxide which so soon forms upon well - cleaned ...
... baths , slop - sinks , or any kind of copper vessel , only require to be scoured and made clean and bright for melted tin to readily tin upon them ; though , for removing the last film of oxide which so soon forms upon well - cleaned ...
Page 91
... bath - safe , or closet - safe , in an oblique direction , the pipe is cut off too short on its inner side to allow for a proper taft , and then no matter how well wiped the joint H Fig . 45 . Fig . 46 . may look on the surface , a ...
... bath - safe , or closet - safe , in an oblique direction , the pipe is cut off too short on its inner side to allow for a proper taft , and then no matter how well wiped the joint H Fig . 45 . Fig . 46 . may look on the surface , a ...
Page 111
... first be determined upon . 2. In the evil days , when traps for the closets , sinks , baths , urinals , and lavatories were made up by hand , according to the sweet will of the plumber , he NON - CLEANSING PLUMBERS ' TRAPS . 111.
... first be determined upon . 2. In the evil days , when traps for the closets , sinks , baths , urinals , and lavatories were made up by hand , according to the sweet will of the plumber , he NON - CLEANSING PLUMBERS ' TRAPS . 111.
Page 120
... baths , sinks , urinals , safes , lavatories , and water - closets . " 15. The bell - trap is only introduced here to show the student plumber how poor a trap sufficed to satisfy the ideas of plumbers of a past generation ; for to - day ...
... baths , sinks , urinals , safes , lavatories , and water - closets . " 15. The bell - trap is only introduced here to show the student plumber how poor a trap sufficed to satisfy the ideas of plumbers of a past generation ; for to - day ...
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