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Identifier: InstructionsForInstallingModernPlumbingSystems (find matches)
Title: Instructions for installing modern plumbing systems
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Subjects: plumbing Division 22 residential plumbing fixtures
Publisher: Sears,Roebuck and Co.
Contributing Library: MBJ collection

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bewarranted in going to the expense of return-ing the overflow pipe to the well or cistern.In Installation No. 2 the well or cisternis shown on the outside of the building.Often the cistern is in the basement, whichwould make no material difference in theinstallation of the piping. To install the force pump which is toforce the water up to the tank, first screwit down to the platform so that it will havea solid bearing. Then screw a pieceof 1 %-inch pipe into the suction endof the pump, this pipe to be longenough to extend from the pump overthe well or cistern, and place a 114-inch elbow on the end of it. Thenscrew a l^-inch foot valve on a pieceof 14-inch pipe long enough to reachfrom the elbow clown to withina foot of the bottom of thecistern or well. Lower this pieceof pipe into the cistern or welland screw it into the l^-inchelbow above. Next, into the opposite side ofthe pump, screw apiece of 1-inch pipewith a 1-inch elbowon the end of it, thispipe to be longenough to reach from
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Installation 2—Pipe Connections When Water Pressure Is Supplied by an Attic Tank SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO., CHICAGO. H the pump over to where you will begin torun the pipe up to the tank, and then con-tinue the pipe up through the house towithin 4 or 5 inches of the end of the tankand about 2 inches above the top of it, asshown in the illustration. Very likely, youwill not be able to run the pipe as straightas shown. You can easily make turns andoffsets bjr means of elbows. At the verytop of the vertical pipe you will screw anelbow, and into this elbow a piece of pipe nipple with another elbow on the end of it.Into the last elbow you will screw a 10-inchnipple. This carries the supply over the topof the tank and down into it. Next screw a union onto the pipe con-nection at the bottom of the attic tank andmeasure a piece of %-inch pipe long enoughto reach down to a tee under the bathroomfloor, connecting with the cold water pipesof your house plumbing, allowing for thepipe to enter % of

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