Section 1a- Definitions Part 1 Flashcards
ABS
Acrylonitrile-butadiene styrene
Administrative authority
Dept of Housing, Building and Construction or any person or agency authorized by dept to administer and enforce the Code
Air break
Piping arrangement for drainage system in which a drain from a fixture, appliance or device discharges indirectly into another fixture, receptacle or intercepter at a point below the flood level rim
Air gap (drainage system)
Unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the outlet of a waste pipe and the flood level rim of the receptacle into which it’s discharging
Air gap (water distribution system)
Unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between lowest opening from any pipe or faucet supplying water to a tank, plumbing fixture or other device and flood level rim of the receptacle
Anchors
Supports
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
APML
Approved Parts and Materials List
Apprentice
Person in the process of learning the plumbing trade who assists and is under the personal supervision of a licensed master or licensed journeyman plumbing
Approved
Accepted or acceptable under applicable specification stated, established or cited in code
Area drain
Receptacle designed to collect surface or storm water from an open area
ASME
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Aspirator
Fitting or device supplied with water or other fluid under positive pressure, which passed through an integral office or constriction causing a vacuum.(Aka suction apparatus; similar in operation to an ejector)
ASSE
American Society of Sanitary Engineers
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials
Autopsy Table
Fixture or table used for postmortem examination of a body
Backflow
Flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or substances into the distribution pipes of a potable water supply from any source other than its intended source
Backflow connection or cross connection
Arrangement by which backflow could occur
Backflow preventer
Device or means to prevent backflow
Backflow, Reduced Pressure Zone type
Assembly of differential valves and check valves including an automatically opened spillage port to the atmosphere
Back siphonage
Following back of used or contaminated or polluted water from a plumbing fixture or vessel or other sources into a potable water supply due to a negative pressure in a pipe
Basement
Lowest level of a dwelling unit which is wholly or partly below the ground level in which the entrance and exit is made by use of a stairway or other mechanical means and with or without an entrance and exit at the basement floor level
Basement floor drain
Drain placed in the basement floor of a residence that does or does not receive sanitary waste water
Battery of fixtures
Group of 2 or more similar adjacent fixtures that discharge into a common horizontal waste or soil branch
Bedpan hopper
Clinical sink
Bedpan steamer or boiler
Fixture used for scalding bedpans or urinals by direct application of steam of boiling water
Bedpan unit
Small workroom in the nursing area designed and equipped for emptying, cleaning, and sometimes steaming bedpans, and for no other purpose
Bedpan washer and sterilizer
Fixture designed to wash bedpans and to flush the contents into the sanitary drainage system. It can also provide for disinfecting utensils by scalding with steam or hot water
Bedpan washer hose
Device supplied with hot and cold water and located adjacent to a water closet or clinical sink to be used for cleaning bedpans
Boiler blow-off
Outlet on a boiler to permit emptying or discharge of sediment
Boiler blow off tank
Vessel designed to receive the discharge from a boiler blow-off outlet and to cool the discharge to a temperature that permits its safe discharge to the drainage system
Branch
Part of the piping system that extends horizontally, at a slight grade, with or without lateral or vertical extensions or vertical arms, from the main to receive fixture outlets not directly connected to the main.
Branch interval
Distance along a soil or waste stack corresponding in general to a story height, but in no case less than 8 feet, within which the horizontal branches from 1 floor or story of a building are connected to a stack
Branch vent
Vent connecting one or more individual vents with a vent stack or stack vent
Building
Structure having walls and a roof designed and used for the housing, shelter, enclosure or support of persons, animals, or property
Building classification
The arrangement of buildings in classes according to occupancy
Building drain
Part of the lowest piping of a drainage system that receives the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning 2 feet outside the building wall
Combined building drain
Building drain that conveys both sewage and storm water or other drainage
Sanitary building drain
Building drain that conveys sewage only
Storm building drain
Building drain that conveys storm water or other drainage but not sewage
Building gravity drainage system
Drainage system that drains by gravity into the building sewer
Building sewer
Part of the drainage system that extends from the end of the building drain and conveys its discharge into a public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system or other point of disposal
Combined building sewer
Building sewer that conveys both sewage and storm water or other drainage
Sanitary building sewer
Building sewer that conveys sewer only
Storm building sewer
Building sewer that conveys storm water or other drainage but not sewer
Building sub-drain
Portion of a drainage system that does not drain by gravity into the building sewer
Cesspool
Lined and covered excavation in the ground that receives a discharge of domestic sewage or other organic wastes from a drainage system, so designed as to retain the organic mater and solids but permitting liquids to seep through the bottom and sides
Circuit vent
A branch vent that serves 2 or more traps and extends from the downstream side of the highest fixture connection of a horizontal branch to the vent stack
CISPI
Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute
Clinical sink
Bedpan hopper-means a fixture for the rising of bedpans and soiled linens
Code
Kentucky State Plumbing Code
Combination fixture
A fixture combining 1 sink and laundry tray or a two or 3 compartment sink or laundry tray in one unit
Combination waste and vent system
Specifically designed system of waste piping embodying the horizontal wet venting of one or more sinks or floor drains by means of a common waste and vent pipe adequately sized to provide free movement of air above the free water surface in the drain
Common vent
A vent connecting at the junction of two fixture drains and serving as a vent for both fixture drains
Conductor
A pipe inside the building that conveys storm water from the roof to a storm or combined building drain
Continuous vent
Vertical vent that is a continuation of the drain to which it connects
Continuous waste
Drain from which 2 or more fixtures connected to a single trap
Cross connection
Physical connection or arrangement between 2 otherwise separate piping systems, one of which contains potable water and the other either water of unknown or questionable safety or steam, gas or chemical whereby one could be a flow from one to another, direction depending on pressure diff btw 2 systems
Critical level (CL)
Level to which the vacuum breaker could be submerged before backflow will occur, and if the CL marking is not shown on the vacuum breaker, the bottom of the device is taken as the CL
Dead end
Branch leading from a soil, waste or vent pipe, building drain or building sewer and terminating at a developed length of 2 feet or more by means of a plug, cap, or other closed fitting
Department
Dept of Housing, Buildings, and Construction
Developed length
Length of a pipe line measure along the center line of the pipe and fittings
Developed travel distance
Length of a pathway measured along the center line of the path
Diameter
Nominal diameter as designated commercially
Division
Division of Plumbing
Domestic sewage
Waterborne wastes derived from ordinary living processes
Double offset
2 changes of direction installed in succession or series in a continuous pipe
Downspout
Leader
Drain
Any pipe that carries waste water or waterborne wastes in a building drainage system
Drainage pipe
Drainage system
Drainage system
All the piping within a public or private premises which conveys sewage rain water or other liquid wastes to a point of disposal and
NOT mains of a public sewer system, a private or public sewage treatment or disposal plant or plumbing appliances
Drainage system for building gravity
Drainage system that drains by gravity into the building sewer
Drainage system sub building
Means Building subdrain
Dry well
Leaching well or pit
Dual vent
Common vent
Durham system
Soil or waste system in which all piping is of threaded pipe, tube, or other rigid construction, using recessed drainage fittings to correspond to the types of piping
Dwelling unit
One or more same rooms with provision for living, sanitary and sleeping facilities arranged for the use of 1 family or individual
DWV
Drain waste and vent piping as used in common plumbing practice
Effective opening
Minimum cross-sectional area at the point of water supply discharge, measure or expressed in terms of the diameter of a circle or if the opening is not circular, the diameter of the circle of equivalent cross-sectional area
Ejector
Aspirator
Existing work
Plumbing system or any part thereof installed prior to the effective date of the applicable provision of this code
Farm
Property with a bona fide “agricultural land” or “horticultural land” used as defined by KRS 132.010 (9) and (10) and qualified by and registered with the PVA in that county
Fire line
System of pipes and equipment used exclusively to supply water for extinguishing fires
Fixture
Plumbing fixture
Fixture branch
Piping distance between soil, waste, and vent stack and the fixture trap
Fixture drain
Drain from the trap of a fixture to the junction of that drain with any other drain pipe
Fixture supply
Water supply pipe connecting a fixture to a branch water supply pipe or directly to a main water supply pipe
Fixture unit, drainage (DFU)
Measure of the probable discharge into the drainage system by various types of plumbing fixture. Depends on volume rate of discharge, time duration of single drainage operation, and average time between successive operation. Generally 1 DFU approx 1 cubic ft per minute
Fixture unit supply (SFU)
Measure of the probable hydraulic demand on the water supply by various types of plumbing fixtures. SFU depends on volume rate of supply, time duration of a single supply operation, and on the average time between successive operations
Flood level rim/Flood level
The edge of the receptacle from which water overflows
Flooded
The condition that results at the point the liquid in a container or receptacle rises to the flood level rim
Floor drain
Drain placed in the floor of the building for the purpose of receiving sanitary waste water
Floor pantry
Workroom in the nursing area designed and equipped to prepare supplemental diets or beverages and to assemble food trays at meals times if used in conjunction with decentralized food service
Flow pressure
The pressure in the water supply pipe near the faucet or water outlet while the faucet or water outlet is wide open and flowing
Flush valve
Device located at the bottom of a tank for slushing water closets and similar fixtures
Flushing type floor drain
Drain that is equipped with an integral water supply enabling flushing of the drain receptor and trap
Flushometer valve
Device that discharges a predetermined quantity of water to fixtures for flushing purposes and is closed by direct water pressure
Frost proof closet
A hopper with no water in the bowl and with the trap and water supply control valve located below the frost line
Grade
Slope or fall of a line or pipe in reference to a horizontal plane. Fraction of an inch per ft of length on drain
Grade plane
A reference plane representing the average of finished ground level adjoining the building exterior walls. If the finished ground level slopes away from the exterior walls, the reference plane is established by the lowest points within the area between the building and the lot line or, where the lot line is more than six (6) feet (1,829 mm) from the building, between the building and a point six (6) feet (1,829 mm) from the building.
Grease intercepter/interceptor/grease trap
device designed and installed so as to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter from normal wastes while permitting normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the drainage system by gravity.
