Random2 Flashcards
Any fitting that has a wide radius of curvature.
Sweep fitting
A plumbing accessory used to connect water drainage pipes; available straight, curved, T or Y.
Pipe Fitting
A type of fitting shaped like the letter T, allowing three pipes to be connected.
Tee Fitting
A pipe fitting that turns 180 degrees.
Return bend fitting
A straight connection of two piped in which the spigot end of is inserted in the flared-out of the other.
Bell-and-Spigot Joint
A short segment of pipe, internally threaded at both ends to join it extend two pipes end to end.
Coupling
In couplings consisting of two inter penetrating pa as in pipe fittings, the one having partly it entirely to house.
Female connector
In plumbing, a tapered coupling to connect a pipes having a different diameter.
Increaser
In couplings consisting of two parts, as in pipe fittings, the one having to fit partly.
Male connector
A short threaded pipe fitting with no outlet, used to close the end of a pipe.
Plug
A Tee fitting for soil pipes, with a curve in the 90 deg transition, to channel the flow in the direction of the main flow.
Sanitary Tee
A pipe fitting shaped like a letter Y. Also fitting with a brand departing at a 45 deg angle. Also called wye.
Y-pipe
Device designed to control the water entering a tank: a floating ball at the end of a lever opens or shuts off the supply when the surface goes beyond the predetermined full or empty levels.
Ball Cock
A wide curved pipe designed to connect a toilet bowl to the drainage system.
Closet Bend
A closet bowl similar to the siphon-jet but with a somewhat narrower drain outlet.
Reverse-Trap Closet
A water closet in which the flush water flows from the rim of the bowl, filling the siphon which drags the waste down the drain with it when it starts to flow.
Siphon-Jet Closet
A water closet similar to the siphon jet type but on which the flush water comes from the rim of the bowl exclusively, creating a whirling motion which contributes to remove the waste.
Siphon-Vortex closet
The traditional type of closet in which waste is washed and pushed through the trap seal to the drain by the action of the water released from an overhead tank; no longer produced but still in use.
Wash-Down Closet
A device used to control or shut off the flow of a liquid, especially water or gas, in pipe.
Tap
A valve or tap designed to shut off the passage of water or had where the exit is at 90 deg angle to the rest of the pipe.
Angle Valve
A device to control water- flow through a pipe operated by a wedge-shaped gate, which allows full flow when raise it restricts it when lowered; not adequate for very close fluid control or very tight shutoff.
Gate valve
A valve designed to allow the flow of fluids or gases in one direction only, esp in drains; incorrect flow automatically closes the valve.
Backflow valve
A valve in which a movable spindle is tightened into fixed seat, restricting the flow of water; the spindle had a washer to ensure the fit; the devices usually encased in characteristic globular housing.
Globe valve
A water outlet to mix hit and cold regulated automatically it by hand, in proportions.
Mixing Faucet
A water outlet designed to mix hot and cold water by manipulating one single control.
Mixer faucet
A water outlet valve equipped with a thermostat blend bit and cold water at a prefixed temperature, in spite of pressure variations in the two pipes.
Anti-Scald Faucet
The combined network of pipes, valves and other devices that lead liquid borne waste and/ or storm water out if a building and into the public sewers.
Drainage System
The pipe connecting the trap seal of a plumbing fixture to the drainage system.
Fixture Drain
Drain pipe the collects water-borne waste other than the fecal matter from the building’s plumbing fixture.
Waste Pipe
Drainage pipes that are not connected directly ti the building’s main drainage system, but lead the waste to it through a trapped receptacle.
Indirect Waste Pipe
A drain to convey rainwater, subsurface water, street wash, cooking water or similar discharges, but not sewage industrial waste, to a disposal point.
Storm Sewer
The pipe conveying the discharge of a building’s storm water, sewage pipes and soil stacks to the public drainage system.
Building Drain
Any vertical pipe of a soil pipe, waste pipe, vent or leader stack, or similar pipes collectively.
Stack
A watertight covered tank designed to receive the sanitary sewage of a building, in it the solids are separated from the liquid waste by a process of bacterial digestion, allowing the clarified to liquid to escape for final disposal.
Septic tank
A system which is the destination of sanitary sewage, where the offensive or dangerous organic and bacterial content of the waste is reduced.
Sewage Treatment Plant
The solid sediment that gathers at the bottom, of a septic tank die to the process of the bacterial digestion if the sanitary waste.
Sludge
A vertical soil pipe that conveys the discharge from the toilet fixtures.
Soil stack
A buried water conveying conduit made of concrete square in a cross section.
Box Culvert
A covered excavation in the ground, lined do that the liquid component of organic waterborne waste or domestic sewage can seep through into the ground, retaining the solids; a method of disposal no longer permitted.
Cesspool
A bed of line sand that is laid over graded gravel, used to remove impurities from a water supply or a septic effluent.
Sand Filter
A covered pit with a perforated or open jointed concrete lining, to allow septic tank effluent to seep or leach into the surrounding soil.
Seepage Pit
An electric motor driven device to grind food wastes and dispose of them through the plumbing drains; may not require a grease trap in a residence.
Disposer
A plumbing fixture designed to be mounted in a wall, no part if it touching or resting on the ground.
Wall-Hung Plumbing Fixture
An integrated part of the form of a bathroom or kitchen sink, or a separate waterproof element, designed to avoid splashing the adjoining walls.
Backsplash
The unobstructed vertical distance between the lowest opening of a faucet and the overflow level of a plumbing fixture it supplies.
Air Gap
The level at which the water to a plumbing fixture starts to spill, usually the level of the rim.
Flood Level
A network of pipes to ventilate the building sewer, connecting the soil stack, waste stack and soil pipes with the exterior, to prevent siphonage breaking the trap seals or accumulations of sewer gas.
Vent system
The extension to the open air of a soil or waste above the highest horizontal branch.
Stack vent
A pipe, usually of some width, simultaneously used both soil or waste pipe and as a vent.
Wet Vent
A branch from the vent stack connected to the horizontal branch between the first fixture branch and the soil stack, to prevent trap and seal breakage and possible sewer gas dispersing.
Relief Vent
A single connected to the junction of two fixtures drains, ventilating both.
Dual Vent
A vertical vent that continuous a soil pipe to which the vent is connected.
Continuous Vent
The vertical vent pipe providing air circulation of a building’s drainage system, preventing siphonage from breaking the trap seals.
Vent Stack
Near a valve in a water system, a sealed vertical pipe stub containing air, to absorb the shock when a valve is closed suddenly, eliminating the noise.
Air Chamber
A vent allowing the release of sewer gas for ventilation of the drainage pipes in the building side if the main drain pipe.
Air Inlet
A pipe which vent fixtures drain, connecting it to the main vent above it.
Individual Vent
A system if gravel-filled tranches throughout the pipes distribute septic tank effluent for its absorption into the surrounding soil.
Absorption Field
In sanitary engineering, the liquid discharged as waste, usually the processed discharge of a septic tank.
Effluent
A device to separate grease from the waste water allowing the retained liquid to cool and grease so solidify, rise by floatations, and be held by the design of the trap.
Grease Interceptor
A layer of light waste material that comes to a surface in a septic tank.
Scum
The water present beneath the surface of the ground, mostly the result if surface water seeping down; the water that feeds weeks and natural springs.
Ground Water
An enclosure built for the purpose of accumulating water for the supply of a house or a community.
Reservoir
A structure, above or underground, built for the storage of water, or other liquids, to use when required.
Cistern
A water container or tank installed at a height is as to provide the required water pressure in the supply.
Water Tower
An oversized U-shaped trap, a cylinder of 3 or 4 inches (10cm), improving its performance.
Deep-seal trap
A perforated pipe driven into the ground to pump out collected ground water.
Abyssinian well
A well in which water rises naturally from a permeable stratum under the pressure of an overlying impermeable layer.
Artesian well
A water table of limited volume that can be fount above the normal, held there by an impervious layer beneath.
Perched Water Table
A fine grained layer of soil, with pores too small to allow water or pass other than very slowly, by capillarity.
Impervious Soil
A water bearing formation of sand, gravel or permeable rock, filtering in usable quantities to springs and wells.
Aquifer
A public conduit taking liquid waste from knee building, or a neighborhood, to a local sewage treatment plant.
Sewer
The process by which a water bearing stratum replenishes the water taken or pumped from it.
Recharge
The combination of tanks, pipes, and valves by which potable water is made available to a community or a building.
Water supply
The delivery or supply of various utilities of public use, such as potable water, gas, electricity, etc.
Service
Valve on a building’s water it has service pipe, by the junction to the public main.
Corporation cock/stop
Valve in a building’s water it gas service pipe by the junction to the public main, because it is the city and not a private company that owns the supply.
Municipal Cock
In plumbing, the pipe drawing a building’s supply from the main.
Branch
A main supply pipe in a system for conveying water for public or community use, controlled by a public authority.
Water Main
In the water pipe connecting a building to the main, a valve uses to shut off the supply in an emergency.
Curb stop
A vertical access to a buried curb cocks, with a long tool to run a building’s supply on or off.
Buffalo box
The water pressure near a faucet or outlet if a supply system, when the outlet is wide open and water is flowing; usually measured in atmospheres, pounds per square in., or kg per square cm.
Flow Pressure
A plumbing fixture designed to be mounted in a wall, no part if it touching or resting on the ground.
Wall-Hung Plumbing Fixture
An integrated part of the form of a bathroom or kitchen sink, or a separate waterproof element, designed to avoid splashing the adjoining walls.
Backsplash
The unobstructed vertical distance between the lowest opening of a faucet and the overflow level of a plumbing fixture it supplies.
Air Gap
The level at which the water to a plumbing fixture starts to spill, usually the level of the rim.
Flood Level
A network of pipes to ventilate the building sewer, connecting the soil stack, waste stack and soil pipes with the exterior, to prevent siphonage breaking the trap seals or accumulations of sewer gas.
Vent system
The extension to the open air of a soil or waste above the highest horizontal branch.
Stack vent
A pipe, usually of some width, simultaneously used both soil or waste pipe and as a vent.
Wet Vent
A branch from the vent stack connected to the horizontal branch between the first fixture branch and the soil stack, to prevent trap and seal breakage and possible sewer gas dispersing.
Relief Vent
A single connected to the junction of two fixtures drains, ventilating both.
Dual Vent
A vertical vent that continuous a soil pipe to which the vent is connected.
Continuous Vent
The vertical vent pipe providing air circulation of a building’s drainage system, preventing siphonage from breaking the trap seals.
Vent Stack
Near a valve in a water system, a sealed vertical pipe stub containing air, to absorb the shock when a valve is closed suddenly, eliminating the noise.
Air Chamber
A vent allowing the release of sewer gas for ventilation of the drainage pipes in the building side if the main drain pipe.
Air Inlet
A pipe which vent fixtures drain, connecting it to the main vent above it.
Individual Vent
A system if gravel-filled tranches throughout the pipes distribute septic tank effluent for its absorption into the surrounding soil.
Absorption Field
In sanitary engineering, the liquid discharged as waste, usually the processed discharge of a septic tank.
Effluent
A device to separate grease from the waste water allowing the retained liquid to cool and grease so solidify, rise by floatations, and be held by the design of the trap.
Grease Interceptor
A layer of light waste material that comes to a surface in a septic tank.
Scum
The water present beneath the surface of the ground, mostly the result if surface water seeping down; the water that feeds weeks and natural springs.
Ground Water
An enclosure built for the purpose of accumulating water for the supply of a house or a community.
Reservoir
A structure, above or underground, built for the storage of water, or other liquids, to use when required.
Cistern
A water container or tank installed at a height is as to provide the required water pressure in the supply.
Water Tower
An oversized U-shaped trap, a cylinder of 3 or 4 inches (10cm), improving its performance.
Deep-seal trap
A perforated pipe driven into the ground to pump out collected ground water.
Abyssinian well
A well in which water rises naturally from a permeable stratum under the pressure of an overlying impermeable layer.
Artesian well
A water table of limited volume that can be fount above the normal, held there by an impervious layer beneath.
Perched Water Table
A fine grained layer of soil, with pores too small to allow water or pass other than very slowly, by capillarity.
Impervious Soil
A water bearing formation of sand, gravel or permeable rock, filtering in usable quantities to springs and wells.
Aquifer
A public conduit taking liquid waste from knee building, or a neighborhood, to a local sewage treatment plant.
Sewer
The process by which a water bearing stratum replenishes the water taken or pumped from it.
Recharge
The combination of tanks, pipes, and valves by which potable water is made available to a community or a building.
Water supply
The delivery or supply of various utilities of public use, such as potable water, gas, electricity, etc.
Service
Valve on a building’s water it has service pipe, by the junction to the public main.
Corporation cock/stop
Valve in a building’s water it gas service pipe by the junction to the public main, because it is the city and not a private company that owns the supply.
Municipal Cock
In plumbing, the pipe drawing a building’s supply from the main.
Branch
A main supply pipe in a system for conveying water for public or community use, controlled by a public authority.
Water Main
In the water pipe connecting a building to the main, a valve uses to shut off the supply in an emergency.
Curb stop
A vertical access to a buried curb cocks, with a long tool to run a building’s supply on or off.
Buffalo box
The water pressure near a faucet or outlet if a supply system, when the outlet is wide open and water is flowing; usually measured in atmospheres, pounds per square in., or kg per square cm.
Flow Pressure
A plumbing fixture designed to be mounted in a wall, no part if it touching or resting on the ground.
Wall-Hung Plumbing Fixture
An integrated part of the form of a bathroom or kitchen sink, or a separate waterproof element, designed to avoid splashing the adjoining walls.
Backsplash
The unobstructed vertical distance between the lowest opening of a faucet and the overflow level of a plumbing fixture it supplies.
Air Gap
The level at which the water to a plumbing fixture starts to spill, usually the level of the rim.
Flood Level
A network of pipes to ventilate the building sewer, connecting the soil stack, waste stack and soil pipes with the exterior, to prevent siphonage breaking the trap seals or accumulations of sewer gas.
Vent system
The extension to the open air of a soil or waste above the highest horizontal branch.
Stack vent
A pipe, usually of some width, simultaneously used both soil or waste pipe and as a vent.
Wet Vent
A branch from the vent stack connected to the horizontal branch between the first fixture branch and the soil stack, to prevent trap and seal breakage and possible sewer gas dispersing.
Relief Vent
A single connected to the junction of two fixtures drains, ventilating both.
Dual Vent
A vertical vent that continuous a soil pipe to which the vent is connected.
Continuous Vent
The vertical vent pipe providing air circulation of a building’s drainage system, preventing siphonage from breaking the trap seals.
Vent Stack
Near a valve in a water system, a sealed vertical pipe stub containing air, to absorb the shock when a valve is closed suddenly, eliminating the noise.
Air Chamber
A vent allowing the release of sewer gas for ventilation of the drainage pipes in the building side if the main drain pipe.
Air Inlet
A pipe which vent fixtures drain, connecting it to the main vent above it.
Individual Vent
A system if gravel-filled tranches throughout the pipes distribute septic tank effluent for its absorption into the surrounding soil.
Absorption Field
