Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-03-16

ne lOllOWlnS weights per Hneal
foot will be accepted as complying
with this ordinance.
Diam. W.T.. per lin1 IT.
Finch, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SO pounds
inch ...-..--.................... as pounds
inch ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. &c pounds
5 inch .....-......................... pounds
6 inch ..........................1 1916 pounds
All fittings used in connection with
such pipes must correspond in weight
and quality.
Section IS. All joints in cast iron
pipe shall be made with picked oak
um, well tamped, and pure molten
lead, well calked, and be gas tight.
Twelve ounces of fine soft pig lead
shall be used at each joint for each
inch in the diameter of the pipe.
Section 10. Fittings for waste or
soil pipes must be cast iron recessed
and threaded drainage fittings with
smooth interior waterway, and
threads tapped so as to give a uni
form grade to branches, of not less
than u inch to the foot, where such
waste and soil pipes are constructed
of what is commonly known as
wrought iron and steel pipe.
Section 20. All joints in wrought
iron and steel pipes shall be screwed
joints made up with red lead or other
approved pipe joint compound, and
the burr formed in cutting must be
carefully reamed out.
Section 81. Short nipples on
wrought iron or steel pipe where the
unthreaded part of the pipe is less
than liz inches long, must be of the
thickness and weight known as Eek
ira heavy, or extra strong"
Section %. All wrought iron and
steel pipes shall be not less than the
following average thickness ano
weight per lineal foot.
Diam. Thickness: W.T.. per linl IT.
liz inches. ia inch ..2.6S pounds
2 inches,....15 inch, ....3.61 pounds
2-R inches.....20 inch ....5.74 pounds
3 inches, .....21 inch ....7.54 pounds
u inches, .....22 inch 800 pounds
4 inches,.....23 inch 10. Sc pounds
Section 90. There shall be clean
outs placed in the house drain, at
each end of each horizontal line
thereof. and at the foot of each ver-
teal line of soil and waste pipe, and
at the place where the house drain
passes through the basement wall to
connect with the house sewer. All
cleanouts shall be closed by brass or
cast iron ferrules having screw COW
ers, the trap screws or covers to be
Of brass or iron with brass screw. All
cleanouts shall be kept accessible
when the sewers are laid beneath the
floor. Manholes must be constructed
to give access to cleanouts or clean
outs be brought to the surface of the
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Y branch and one eighth bend. All
cleanouts must be full size of pipe up
to four inches in diameter, and in no
case less than 4 inches in diameter
Section "a. All brass pipe for soil
waste and vent pipes, and solder nip
pies, must be thoroughly annealed
seamless drawn brass tubing, OF
standard iron pipe suuse.
Section %. Joints in lead pipes
must in all cases be wiped, and all
wiped joints must be made in a work
manlike manner. Joints between
lead and iron pipes must be made by
means of extra heavy cast brass fer,
rules, or cast brass solder nipples, OF
combination calking ferrules the full
size of iron pipe.
Section %. The use of lead pipes
is restricted to the short branches OF
the soil, waste and vent pipes, bends
and traps, roof connections, inside
leaders and flush pipes.
Section 81. All lead waste, soil
vent and flush pipes must be of the
best quality known in commerce as
ID, and of not less than the follow.
ing weights per lineal foot:
Diameter. VT ner lin'l N