Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1918)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · New York, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., [etc., etc.] · leaf 376
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 iVIining Giant. Under high pressure the deflector, which is fitted to the buttof the discharge and carries the nozzle, should ^he 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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