The sprinklers I use are Naans, a unique Israeli design that emits very little water and throws at a very low angle (available from TSC and some garden centers).
On the garden plan, the sprinklers are indicated by a circle surrounding an "X.
In England this opinion found expression in increased insurance rates in buildings where automatic-sprinklers were installed.
Automatic-sprinklers have proved to be a most valuable form of fire-apparatus in operating with great efficiency at fires where their action was unaided by other fire-apparatus, particularly at night.
When automatic-sprinklers were first introduced there were many apprehensions that leakage, and also excessive water discharged upon small fires, would be sources of damage.
The hum of lawn-sprinklers and the chirping of crickets and tree-frogs came with it.
The requirements of the fire survey code may allow for hydrants or sprinklers in certain risks, and also for their regular inspection, and the means for self-help may thus be given.
Hydrants and cocks must not rust, nor must the hose get so stiff that the water cannot pass through it, or sprinklers choked.
Factories, warehouses and other buildings in which the fire risks are great, are sometimes fitted with automatic sprinklers which discharge water from the ceiling of a room as soon as the temperature rises to a certain point.
The idea of automatic sprinklers is an old one, and a system was patented by Sir William Congreve in 1812; but in their present development they are specially associated with the name of Frederick Grinnell, of Providence, Rhode Island.
The valves of thesprinklers are normally kept closed by a device the essential feature of which is a piece of fusible metal; this as soon as it is softened (at a temperature of about 160 deg.
Automatic sprinklers whirled and hummed here and there.
Radway occupied his men with shovels in clearing the edge of the road, and started one of his sprinklers over the place already cleared.
Nearly every day the road had to be plowed, and the sprinklersfollowed the teams almost constantly.
Before the introduction of automatic sprinklers there was not, I believe, a single instance of a fire entering the lower portion of a belt tower during working hours without accomplishing the destruction of the mill.
That is to say, the hazard of fire starting in such places is beyond the capacity of any apparatus other than automatic sprinklers to cope with it.
They went out to a seat on the veranda, which looked across a row of dusty palmettos and a strip of arid lawn that the glistening showers from the sprinklers could not keep green.
Still, the nickeled sprinklers that flung glistening showers across the smooth grass, and the big gasolene mower, belonged to her world, in which Nature was kept in her place by civilized art.
The green of the lawn was grateful to Saxton's eyes, which dwelt with relief on the fine spray of the rotary sprinklers that hissed coolly at the end of long lines of hose.
He rose and walked out to one of his sprinklers which had been placed too near the walk and kicked it off into the grass.
In the interior the precautions against fire are excellent, including iron curtains, automatic sprinklers and squads of city firemen; but German theaters and hotels are lacking in so essential an equipment as outside fire escapes.
In addition to the ventilator every part of the house should be equipped with a system of sprinklers operated automatically by a gravity system.
An automatic sprinkler system would probably have been less effective in the case of the Iroquois fire, as great damage to life would have probably been done before such sprinklers would have been put into action.
Again, other sprinklers are not automatic, but require to be set in operation by hand.
To these pipes, the sprinklers are attached at distances of about ten feet.
Other sprinklers are said to act by a thread, which, it is claimed, will burn when the heat reaches a certain temperature and release the water.
Such great importance is attached to the use of sprinklers by some insurance-offices, that they offer a large reduction of premiums to those employing them.
If desired, the tank need only be of sufficient size to feed a fewsprinklers for a short time, and then dependence must be placed upon a pump for a further supply of water, if necessary.
The tank, however small, will insure the automatic and prompt working of the sprinklers and alarm, and by the time the tank shall become empty the pumps can be got at work.
Over each one of these sprinklers is placed a brass cap, which fits closely over and passes below the base, where it is soldered on with a fusible metal that melts as soon as it is heated to 155 degrees.
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