The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 242
on a metal tray some 2 or 3 inches deep and pro-jecting perhaps a foot beyond the tank on all sides. Ths,connected with a fair-sized drain, should protect the housein case of leakage. The cast-iron sectional tank, as its name indicates, ismade of separate adjustable parts or plates which arebolted… … Fig. 37. Horizontal section ofa wooden, met-l-lined tank 2l8 The Country House Every tank should have an overflow pipe attached to it a little below the top,to avoid any possible chance of flooding the house. It should be considerablylarger in sectional area than the feed pipe, for the reason that…
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