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 365
of a filter whichwould purify the large amount of water used in the Cumberland Mills of the above firm, thisbeing now the largest mechanical filter-plant in existence, having a daily capacity of 12,000,000gals. The chief merit claimed for this filter is the mechanical rake or agitator. By its… … Km 3.—VVarreii filter. rapidly and thoroughly cleaned with tlie minimum consumption of water. Experiments alsopointed to the fact that insutTicient time was usually allowed for the reaction of the alum orother coagulant used in the water ; hence, in the Warren system, the coagulant, in the form ofa…
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