Engineering and Contracting . Fig. 1.—Cast Iron Cover. of any kind and security against meter tam-pering. Much time is often lost by themeter reader in gaining access to the homeof a consumer and reaching the meter, andthe meter itself is often covered over withIxirrels, boxes or other household wastewhich has to be removed. Few cellars archeated sufficiently to prevent freezing ofmeters in extreme cold weather, and thiialone is said to be the source of heavy lossevery winter. In case of the destruction ofa house by fire the meter is always a totalloss. With the outside setting, the meter canb
Engineering and Contracting . Fig. 1.—Cast Iron Cover. of any kind and security against meter tam-pering. Much time is often lost by themeter reader in gaining access to the homeof a consumer and reaching the meter, andthe meter itself is often covered over withIxirrels, boxes or other household wastewhich has to be removed. Few cellars archeated sufficiently to prevent freezing ofmeters in extreme cold weather, and thiialone is said to be the source of heavy lossevery winter. In case of the destruction ofa house by fire the meter is always a totalloss. With the outside setting, the meter canbe readily reached by simply unlocking and. Fig. 2.—Model Setting of Cover. raising the iron cover at the pavement have shown that when the thermome-ter stood at 10 degs. below zero- in thestreet the temperature at the meter dial inthe street box (16 ins. below the pavementlevel) was 42 degs. above zero, making adifference of 52 degs. in temperature be-tween the outside and inside of the theory is that the warm air rising from the ground at the bottom of tlic box keepsthe box or pit warm even in the coldestweather, and users of this setting in the ex-treme north claim they have never had ameter freeze in them. One of the accompanying illustrationsshows the cast iron cover and the other amodel setting of the cover used with vitri-fied or cement pipe box body. These cov-ers are made by the McWane Pipe Works,220 Broadway, New York city. Catalogs Worth Having. Engineers and contractors should haveen file the latest catalogs of machines, toolsand supplies that they use. In sending forcatalogs reviewed or advert
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