Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . givenover to offices, these floors boasting thehighest ceilings of any office building inNew York. This building is equipped with electricelevators, vacuum cleaning system, mailchutes, hot and cold water, etc. Theplumbing work was installed by J. , of New York, from plans andspecifications prepared by the architects,Warren & Wetmore, also of New York,and is described in the following:— The entire drainage of the building istaken care of by two house sewers, oneof which drains into the 42nd street sew-er at the front of the build
Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . givenover to offices, these floors boasting thehighest ceilings of any office building inNew York. This building is equipped with electricelevators, vacuum cleaning system, mailchutes, hot and cold water, etc. Theplumbing work was installed by J. , of New York, from plans andspecifications prepared by the architects,Warren & Wetmore, also of New York,and is described in the following:— The entire drainage of the building istaken care of by two house sewers, oneof which drains into the 42nd street sew-er at the front of the building and theother of which runs into the 43rd streetsewer at the rear of the building. Bothof these sewers consist of 8 tile pipefrom the street sewer connection backto a point 12 outside of the area wallswhere 8 extra heavy cast iron soil pipeis substituted, and extension back intothe building is made with this material. These sewers are graded a minimumof Va per foot, the tile pipe being of thebest vitrified salt-glazed pipe and the flu to. Vo/re. Fig. 2a. Piping Connections Between the Sewage Ejectors in the .ZEolian Build-ing. Cross Connections Permit Either Unit to be Used. extra heavy cast iron pipe of the follow-ing weights:— 2 pipe, 5y2 pounds per foot; 3,9i/2; 4, 13; 5, 17; 6, 20; 7, 27;8, 331/2; 10, 45 and 12, 54. The cast iron soil pipe was uncoateduntil after testing, when it was paintedwith a heavy coat of asphalt paint. Justinside the building walls 8 extra heavycast iron running traps having twohand-holes, with brass trap screws, fer-rules, and screw plugs are placed asshown in Fig. 1. Back of these traps areconnected 6 fresh air inlets which areextended to the height of the sidewalkand end with fresh air inlet valves. The main drainage system connects allfixtures above the sewer level with the street sewer direct and all other fixturesbelow this level are run into two air-and-water-tight 50-gallon sewage eject-ors from which the discharge is connect-ed into t
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