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Title: The principles of mill and factory inspection for fire insurance purposes : with notes on the hydraulics of automatic sprinkler protection
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Brewster, A. Irving
Subjects: Factory inspection Mills and mill-work Sprinklers
Publisher: Richmond Hill, N.Y. : A. Irving Brewster
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si-bility for heavy loss^ if any occurs, in nearly every fire.All that the insurance company can do is to pay indemnityfor loss, which, if large, in nine cases out of ten is dueto the lack of apparatus for preventing loss, or to lackof care and order in the conduct of the work. This ap-plies to all manufacturing establishments, and though therisk being examined may be well managed and wellequipped against heavy loss by fire, yet bad managementand lack of appliances for fighting fire in the exposuremay entail a sizable loss upon the former in spite of allsafeguards possessed by it. Common Fire Hazards.—These result from thekind of power, fuel, heat and artificial light used; storageand handling of lubricating oils; simple drying; ordinaryuse of inflammable volatiles, etc. Power.—This may be water, steam, electricity, hotair, gas or vapor. If water power is used, the wheel orturbine should be firmly set. A $26,000 fire occurred ina paper mill at Conowingo, Md., from sparks caused by
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GENERAL CONFLAGRATIONS Paterson, N. J., February, 1902. 40 MILL AND FACTORY INSPECTION the giving way of the foundation of the water wheel.Several years previous to the case just cited, a fire thatresulted in a considerable loss by fire started in a wheelpit of a similar mill in IS^ew England. (In neither casehad sprinkler protection been provided over the wheelpits.) If steam power is used, the boilers should be solocated and set as not to endanger any woodwork in theirvicinity by radiation of heat, nor by a ^back draught.^The flues or uptakes^^ through which the hot gases ofcombustion pass to the chimney or the stack should beclear from all woodwork and have ample air space to same.Iron stacks should have an air space all around them wherepassing through roofs and be provided with an iron collarwith iron sleeve extending below the lower edges of nearbyroof joists. Brick chimneys should be large enough andheavy enough for all the boilers, furnaces, etc., ventedthrough them, should pr

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