Mechanical movements, powers, devices and appliances (1901)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, N. W. Henley & company · leaf 158
550. AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER.—The valve is held tightly closed by the diamond-shaped postresting on a bell-crank clip, which is held in positionby fusible solder, melting at about 200° Fah., atwhich temperature the solder melts and the pressurecasts the clips loose. The star washer scatters thestream. … 551. HYDRAULIC RAM, the Montgol-fier idea for a fountain supplied by a waterram. 552. HYDRAULIC RAM.—A, Drivingpipe; V, impact valve; C, valve-bonnetcage and spindle; W, force valve ; F, out-let to force pipe; D, air chamber; E, snift-ing hole, sometimes furnished with a smallball valve which…
Mechanical movements
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