The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 191
ders,cleansing carriages, &c. ;and placed within mills,warehouses, and publicbuildings, they would af-ford the most importantprotection against fire.They are also adaptedfor watering gardens andpleasure grounds, and bythe application of suit-able spreaders or jets, forsyringing fruit trees,… … The fire-cock consists of a cast-iron box or casing, containing aself-acting valve, A, closed by the pressure of the water. Forstreet purposes, this casing is attached to a vertical branch fromthe water main, and when not in use the outlet of the valve isclosed by a loose cover or stopper, and the…
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