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" ... valves for allowing the foul air to escape. The operation of this self-acting ventilator is as follows : Each tank or butt is half filled with water, which flows freely from one to the other through the pipe d. The quantity of water running alternately... "
Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of ... - Page 82
by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) - 1820
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An essay addressed to captains of the Royal navy and those of the Merchants ...

Robert Finlayson (M.D.) - 1824 - 106 pages
...the tanks. . ltj d, connecting water pipe. ee, valves for admitting the foul air into the tanks. //, valves for allowing the foul air to escape. The operation...thereby discharge as much foul air through the valve / as the additional' water displaces. The elevated tank at the same time is receiving the foul air...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 26

Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 576 pages
...air into the tanks. cc, hose for conducting the foul we from the tanks. d, connecting water pipe. cr, valves for admitting the foul air into the tanks....displaces. The elevated tank at the same time is receiving 1 I once saw the hold of a ship so filled with fixed air, that a candle would not burn in it ; and...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 26

Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 586 pages
...fft valves for allowing the foul air to escape. The operation of this self-acting ventilator is a; follows : Each tank or butt is half filled with water,...displaces. The elevated tank at the same time is receiving ' I once saw the hold of a ship so filled with fixed air, that a candle would not burn in it ; and...
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The Ship-builders' Complete Guide: Comprehending the Theory and Practice of ...

Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 164 pages
...of the ship. When one of the tanks is elevated by the ship's Orthometer. motion, the water will rim through the pipe d into the depressed tank, and thereby discharge as much foul air through the valve/, as the additional water displaces. The elevated tank at the same time is receiving the fonl air through...
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Outlines of Naval Hygiene, Issue 389

John Denis Macdonald - 1881 - 392 pages
...water, which flows from one to the other through a connecting pipe. ' The quantity of water nmning alternately from each depends upon the motion of the...ship's motion, the water will run through the pipe and into the depressed tank, and thereby discharge as much foul air as the additional water displaces....
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