Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 354
^ open shallow wells ordeep cisterns. It drains automatically through a waste-hole alwaysopen below frost line, located in the stock above the working barrel.There is no limit except the strength of the parts, to which a goodlift pump will not bring water if the cylinder is near enough to thewater… … WAT£R LEV£i,/N WELL 287 64 PLUMBING The forcing feature of a pump, making it a lift and force pump, issecured by working the rod of an ordinary lift pump through a stuffingbox, and adding an air-chamber to take care of the surplus waterpumped on the up-stroke and to expel it while the plunger is…
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