Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 363
matter, converting it intosuch a form that the filter will easily and completely remove it. The supply of water to thiscoagulator is governed by a valve regulated by a scale, each division of which corresponds toa given quantity of alum dissolved. In consequence of this reaction, the minute amount… … FILTRATION. 343 easily removable, and the resulting filtered water is perfectly bright and clear, no matter howdirty and muddy it may have been previously. For the purpose of cleaning the filter-bed,provision is made by which the current of water can be reversed, and the accumulation ofdirt, etc.,…
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