Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1914)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · Chicago, The M. C. Clark Publishing Co. · leaf 524
sand at Gary, Ind. PUMPS 519 Each pump is furnished complete with either basket or mush-room strained steam and release valve connection, and pump hookfor suspending when necessary, but no piping. A pump working on similar principles, but which may beslightly more economical in steam consumption… … Fig. A Junior Emptying aCofferdam. lubrication. These pumps will work, admitting 30 per cent ofair or 25 per cent of grit, and a continuous run of four monthshas been recorded. They are especially valuable in quicksandand wherever the quantity of water is variable. The cost ofrepairs is nominal.…
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