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 248
are stillconfronted by the problem of the rising sewer gas, which would find unobstructedoutlets through the open waste connections. To obviate this the trap was in-vented. This consists in a certain form of pipe, or attachment, designed to hold asmall quantity of water at all times, so that the… … Ordinary *Tnap, w/fABacft-venf. Fig. 40. Section showing three simple trap forms receptacle above it overflowed the bend, and was supposed to leave enoughwater at all times to keep the seal closed. There are two things, however,which menace this—evaporation and syphonage. As every trap has more or…
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