Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1914)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · Chicago, The M. C. Clark Publishing Co. · leaf 377
dis-charge pipes was a flexible horizontal iron joint formed by twoelbows, one working over the other, with a coupling joint be-tween them. These elbows were called Goose Necks. Thesejoints were very defective, the water pressure causing them tomove hard and buck. The evolution of the hydraulic… … Fig. 168. Hydraulic Mining Giant. Under high pressure the deflector, which is fitted to the buttof the discharge and carries the nozzle, should be used. Bymeans of the deflector the Giant can be turned with thegreatest ease. In the table of sizes, weights, etc., of Giants, thecolumn headed…
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