The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette . 184,8.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS BUNNETTS SEWER TRAP. j\lr. Biuinett, of the lii-m of Bunnett and Corpe, of Lombard-street, has invented a ^ery simple and cheap Self-acting EffluviaTrap which differs from all previous contrivances. The fault ofthe old invention was that they were so arranged that a very smallquantity of water caused the pan of the trap to fall, and conse-quently during a shower of rain, or water falling upon it, theaction was intermittent, continually opening a communication witlith
The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette . 184,8.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS BUNNETTS SEWER TRAP. j\lr. Biuinett, of the lii-m of Bunnett and Corpe, of Lombard-street, has invented a ^ery simple and cheap Self-acting EffluviaTrap which differs from all previous contrivances. The fault ofthe old invention was that they were so arranged that a very smallquantity of water caused the pan of the trap to fall, and conse-quently during a shower of rain, or water falling upon it, theaction was intermittent, continually opening a communication witlithe sewer, and lialde to lie held open permanently by any lightmatter being caught by the rising of tlie pan. In Mr. Bunnettsimproved trap this is avoided by introducing a peculiar mechanical arrangement of the le- i-J jfl ~^~ verage connected with the form of the move- able pan, and applica-tion of the weight,whicli admits, underordinary circumstan-ces, of a constant flowof water through thegrating into the panof the trap and overthe edge of the sameinto the sewer or drain,the lower part of thetrap being immersedinto the wa
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