. Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects, and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming, and kindred subjects : with estimates for the best systems in use, and upward of three hundred illustrations . 101 and 102 are differently constructed gullies;the first-named is not calculated to do much work, however, and isfittest for areas, whilst the latter would serve very well to draina moderate-sized backyard. A civil engineer of Kingston-upon-Hull, Mr. Sharpe, has lately pa-tented the gully figured at Fig. 103, and claims the application ofglazed stoneware or other impermeable materia
. Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects, and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming, and kindred subjects : with estimates for the best systems in use, and upward of three hundred illustrations . 101 and 102 are differently constructed gullies;the first-named is not calculated to do much work, however, and isfittest for areas, whilst the latter would serve very well to draina moderate-sized backyard. A civil engineer of Kingston-upon-Hull, Mr. Sharpe, has lately pa-tented the gully figured at Fig. 103, and claims the application ofglazed stoneware or other impermeable material to this rather peculiarand solid arrangement of gully trap and moveable cover. A Wei- Different Gully Traps* 43 lington builder, Mr. Shaw, introduced, about ten years ago, the trapshown at Fig. 104, and the novelty lay in the formation of the jointwhere the trap rests in the frame. When fitted in a laundry floor, forinstance, water would nearly always rest in the groove, and so forman hydraulic joint, hut evaporation would follow exposure to the sun,and in that case the inventor preferred the groove to be filled withsand. I cannot approve of this arrangement, and give it as a foil toshow up its \Q&. ID/.
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