The time taken to sink one sump was about 4 days, working one 8-hour shift per day, and not counting the time taken to set up the jacks and bracing.
When the work was finished, a subgrade reversed-grade drain carried the water to the shaftsump by gravity.
The plugs in the bottom of the sump segment were taken out, and pipes were put in, through which the silt squeezed up into the tunnel and relieved the pressure on the sump segment.
To send the water to the shaft sump during the construction, small compressed-air Cameron pumps, of about 140 gal.
The deep space beneath the floor is used as a sump for drainage, and manholes for access to the cable conduits are placed in the benches.
The first lining casting was bolted to the flat flanges of the sump segment, the bolts holding the latter to the adjacent segments were removed, and the whole was forced down with two of the old shield jacks, taking a bearing on the tunnel.
During this period the turnbuckles to reinforce the broken plates were put in, and the sump sunk at the lowest point of the tunnel.
In this way the sump was sunk, adding lining sections one by one, and finally putting on the top segment, which was composed of three pieces.
He slapped me on the shoulder with his gloved right hand, then walked through the shower-room, trailing his black air-hose, and dropped down the manhole into the formaldehyde sump on his way back out into the world.
I climbed up the ladder through the second manhole over the formaldehyde sump and stepped out into the sterile precincts of the Big Tank.
Colonel Barrett and his subordinates who'd train us to operate the Zeta would have to wear sterility-suits aboard her, and would enter through the formaldehyde sump that was now her only entrance.
Having scrubbed off most of the flora I'd picked up in the great wild world of Indiana, I climbed down through the manhole into the bathtub, a sump of formaldehyde solution eight feet deep.
It's airtight, armored against outside dangers, even has the formaldehyde sump to serve us for airlock.
Sump men (Mining), the men who sink the sumpin a mine.
Two men of the Middlesex Regiment had been busy for a week digging a sump hole in the exposed hollow in front of the village and had excavated to a depth of about eight feet.
One shot, however, caused him to dive down more quickly than usual--right into a sump hole in the trench.
Before mornin' the sump holes will be full and she'll be runnin' all over the prairie.
A crew of men, divided into three shifts, worked with pick, shovel, and scraper to dig a second and a third sump hole.
The oil field adjacent had been licked up and every reservoir and sump was in flames.
Rivulets of the viscid stuff began to gather in depressions and to flow in gathering volume, as tributaries joined the stream, into the sump holes prepared for it.
As soon as the second reservoir was ready the tarry stuff was siphoned into it from the original sump hole.
Lucky we got the tools out here we brought to build the sump holes.
On the afternoon of the third day Bob Hart rode up to the wildcat well where Dave was building a sump hole with a gang of Mexicans.
He found Bob Hart, in oilskins and rubber boots, bossing a gang of scrapers, giving directions to a second one building a dam across a draw, and supervising a third group engaged in siphoning crude oil from one sump to another.
The others he put to salvaging the engine and accessories and to throwing up an earth dike around the sump hole as a barrier against the escaping crude.
At the same time plates were removed from the bottom in Tunnel B over the site of the sump, and a heading was started on the line of the sump toward Tunnel A.
On account of bad ground and seams of sand encountered in the rock below the level of the cross-beams, the entire west wall of the pump chamber was placed before enlarging the sump to full size.
To take care of the drainage of the tunnels, a sumpwith a pump chamber above it was provided for each pair of tunnels.
The iron lining of the sump and the east wall of the pump chamber were placed as soon as possible.
The voids outside the iron lining of the sump and the pump chamber were filled as completely as possible with concrete, and then thoroughly grouted.
Following the completion of the shaft, the permanent sump was excavated to grade for use during construction.
A derrick handled the skips between the sumpand the work.
A manhole had to be put in the top and a sump in the bottom.
The necessary frequency of draining and flushing out the oil sump differs greatly with the age (condition) of the engine and the suitability of the oil used.
The lower half carries the oil sump in which all of the oil except that circulating through the system at the time is carried.
An oil level indicator is provided, showing the amount of oil in the sump at all times.
The lubricant is drawn from the sump or oil container by means of a positive oil pump which discharges directly into the engine case.
The oil sump plug is located at the lowest point of the lower crank-case.
The oil is returned to the main supply sump by gravity, where it is strained and re-used.
An oil pump of the gear-wheel type delivers oil from the sump at the bottom of the crank-case to a chamber above, from which the oil flows by gravity along suitable channels to the various main bearings.
The cooling of oil in the sump (A) can be accomplished most effectively by radiating fins on its outer surface.
The oil is first drawn from the strainer in oil sump to the long jacket around the intake manifold, then forced to the main distributor pipe in crank-case, which leads to all main bearings.
This floor may be about eighteen, nineteen, or twenty feet from the water, at the lowest you ever will draw the water into the sump or bottom cistern.
These two side drifts each end in what are nowsump holes.
And so they hikes and have got this far, where they lay over for the night to comfort their insides with somethin' that smelled like a cross between nitric acid, a corn farm, and sump water.
These sump holes have a well for the accumulation of mud, and are also connected with the main street drain, so that water can freely pass away.
In order that this drain may not become choked, at suitable intervals, in the length of the track, sump holes are formed as illustrated in diagram, Fig.
The distance at which thissump should be placed from the bed of the stream will depend on the character of the soil.
And by this system, at the same time the water is lifted into the tanks and drained out of them; from the sump at the bottom of the shaft it is drained out, and it is poured into the trough of the tunnel.
From a beam which is as high above the shaft as the sump is deep, is hung a cord, to one end of which there is fastened a stone, the other end being attached to a plank.
In these clamps catch the links of the chain, which is drawn through the pipes out of the sump, and which again falls, through a timbered opening, right down to the bottom into the sump to a balancing drum.
Through this continuous series of pipes, the water is drawn by the balls of the chain up out of the sump as far as the tunnel, where it flows but into the drains through an aperture in the highest pipe.
The lower one is placed in the sump of the shaft, or in a tank, and its lower end is blocked by a round piece of wood, above which there are six perforations around the pipe through which the water flows into it.
In these days, they sew an iron band into the top of each bag that it may constantly remain open, and when lowered into the sump may fill itself with water, and there is no need for a man to act as governor of the bags.
That was the purpose of the four nuclear pumps in the sump hole.
We've got a good quarter-mile of deep rock for the sump hole.
The first of the four huge, sealed nuclear sump pumps had just touched the floor of the basin at the vertical bore when the tech at the gauge farthest upstream yelped, "It's wet!
When she dried up I nat'rally wanted a sump nearer th' hut, but I couldn't get one nearer than I have.
That sump of mine is located in a rocky basin that's full of sand.
After I get through wrastlin' with a pan in that sump th' water won't be fit to drink before mornin'.
If you aim to put that sump down farther I'm just itchin' to give you a hand.
As I was sayin', th' water in that sump kept me guessin'.
If it wasn't for a sump I've dug in a sandy place in its bed I'd had no water at all.
Why don't you hire somebody, Jake for instance, an' clean up that sump as quick as you can?
The sump lay about a hundred yards up the creek bed, around a bend which was covered with a thin growth of sickly willows and box elders.
Sump at intersection of 142d Street and Lenox Avenue.
Sump at intersection of 147th Street and Lenox Avenue.
In such cases, where possible, at each depression where water is liable to collect, a well, or sump pit, has been constructed just outside the shell of the tunnel.
Sump at intersection of 116th Street and Lenox Avenue.
For all locations, where such drains, or sump pits, are located above the line of the adjacent sewer, the carrying of the water away has been easy to accomplish by employing a drain pipe in connection with suitable traps and valves.
Sump at about 144th Street in Harlem River approach.
The water in the old sump had risen and flowed across the heading and the air-way and far up into the chambers, and he was compelled to go around it.
But he passed on through the open places, calling as he went, and came finally to the sump near the foot of the slope.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sump" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
