Footnote H: These mixtures were used for gate house and standpipefoundation work.
To the designer it may be suggested that any beauty he may gain by giving the walls of his standpipe a batter is paid in the extra cost of form work.
In waterproofing the standpipe described in Chapter XXII the soap solution consisted of 12 oz.
The first coat of plaster was not successful in stopping the leaks, so the standpipe was emptied and replastered, five coats being used in the lower 20 ft.
Water or sediment in the gasoline will cause misfiring because the fuel feed varies when the water or dirt constricts the standpipe bore.
A jet or standpipe is used in the mixing chamber to spray the fuel through and the object of the float is to maintain the fuel level to such a point that it will not overflow the jet when the motor is not drawing in a charge of gas.
On every suction stroke of the engine the inlet valve, which was an automatic type, would leave its seat and a stream of air would be drawn through the air opening and around the standpipe or jet.
A balanced float mechanism which insures steadiness of feed is used, the gasoline jet or standpipe is provided with a needle valve to vary the amount of gasoline supplied the mixture and two air openings are provided.
The mixing chamber and valve chamber were one and the standpipe or jet protruded into the mixing chamber.
In case the ram must be located at a considerable distance from the spring in order to attain the required fall, a standpipe D--slightly larger than the supply pipe--is used to take advantage of the full force of the water.
A standpipe is arranged as shown in the figure, with a check valve to prevent the water in the ram from being forced back into the spring water pipe after entering the ram.
Little boys came off that roof in record time, and with such a clatter that the effort of the standpipe almost lost its place as a star turn.
Jones, with fifteen other men, finding the building they were in about to fall, made their way to the water tower and, clapping hands, encircled the standpipe to keep from being washed or blown away.
When a new waterworks and standpipe had been completed in 1889, and when some new mills had been established under difficulties, affairs had come to a pass when the new Galvestonian and the old found a great gap between.
He had climbed the standpipe by the handholds and let himself down into seventy-five feet of cold water, with his shoes and hat and roll of ticking.
Suddenly the full stream from the standpipe spurted down.
The lad explained briefly how he had been captured by the two men and ducked under the standpipe of the water tank.
Together they lifted the kicking, squirming, fighting boy, carrying him on down the tracks, not putting him down until they had reached the standpipe of a nearby water tank, where the locomotives took on their supply of fresh water.
