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CONDENSER RELIEF VALVES
YfeAVIS ipeciolitas in building otmotphnrk oihaint relief votves to moot Hto modem needs of power
plants for proto<tf*o equipment. The Davis No. HO Relief Volte, shown in cross-section above, it one of (be lotitoI widely-used Devis design* that giro engtottrt whot they .wont for candensor protection.
No. HO feoturct o quick opening ond cushioned closing action. The bronte-lo-brenio-contoct volte is vater-stoltd through inlet ond overflow pipe connec tions in the body. It holds fight under high voeoum to ptetenl oir infiltration into the condsener and relieves to otmosphere ot a fraction of o pound pressure wheo for ony rooton the vacuum is lost. Shewn hare with bond fift ot bottom, it is also avollebU with hydroalk lift.
The Davis Um of eihoutt relief rafves is complete. Sites from 6M to 48". Horizontal, vorticol, or onglo body patterns. For defoitod informotion, ask for Bulle tin No. 101 A.
No. 110 Exhoust Relief Valve
I Loft. -- Davis has } brought the otmosi pheric relief valve to : a high paint of por! faction, with o corn* i binotlon of engineerI ing feotures nor found
elsewhero.
DAVIS REGULATOR CO.
Aepreseatatires fa AH Prlaefpaf ClUes 2540 S. WASHTENAW AVE...CHICAGO 8. ILL.
176 (449c)
America's most poweriul aircraft jet en.^j
gine now In production, Cenerel EJecirie'ifi
torpodo-sheped fC-190, which is capable'* of producing about 10000 hp at the top!
peed of the new plane* being built fr :
ill application, has boos announced hy*
U. S. Air Force end the company's alrcrali gas-turbine division*. Known as the Ait '
Force /-41A, the new engine is o "greatly!. advanced" development of the company's? aiial-Aow rC-180 (J4S) jet engine which.'
is the power plant of ten different types-;
of military jet-propelled fighter* tod'.i
bombers.
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Uuildlitg program at the Municipal powr^
station in Jamestown, N.Y., in connection* a with the 14,000,000 expansion of elecuieill'a
production ia expected to get under wj;'w this fall, according to Qeyton O Johnson,)] superintendent of Dept of Public Utilities'? Johnson aald that there l* no detailed plasT
available yet, although plans of the build-' ing to house the new power unite ptr.'J chased by Board ol Public Utilities Hivtj|
been made.
Brown Instrument Co, Philadelphia, aifl ^ounces *'(2000000 expansion program'] fist will add more than 60% to lie y manufacturing space and a proportionate] increase In employment. The program lo'-j eludes construction of a 4-story addltiea to .the main plant at Wayne Junction.*
Building began In May and first phase el (he project la scheduled hr eempktlu nest March. Foundation and footings of the new wing are designed ao that foot additional floors may be added at later date.
American Standard Practices for Sul
lionary Diesel Engines is a new I that has been adapted for those who m use or specify stationary diesel engine of American make. In Spanish speaki countries. The new book ia a translstfesl
of the test published two years-ago byj Diesel Engine Manufacturers Aaan of C cago, for use in the U. S. Before hath the 1946 edition translated Into the Spt language, the association revised It bring ft up to date and to make it fuftj able for use in Latin American countrl Chief among such revisions are dreppi of the tolerance in fuel consumption | antees and conversion of weights s<*j
measures to metric aystem.
Two revisions In the book, Standard Fr*$ ticca lor Stationary Dicici S/TfiacJ, I been announced by Diesel Engine MsnuJ
facturcra Assn. Formal notion of r>'~ revisions Is being given through a prii page, which may be Inserted in the ebapt^ titled, "Standard Performaoees and ment. One change Is addition of a t curve giving altitude ratings for charged diesel engine*. Altitude above level b given in meters a* well as feet, <j
make the carve adaptable to the ee* Spanish edition. Second revision Is onjjS
loo of foci tolerance of 3%. Ilia assoc1
tfon states that the fuel tolerance is 1 being omitted from It* new book, Mot Dfeiei Standard Practices, which has l*j|
come off the prase. "All this meant," new Insert page states, "that few, U engine builders will Include a lolcf for fuel In (he fnture."
POWER July 11
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