Gas Measurement and Gas Meter Testing: Under the "Sales of Gas Act".1873 - 65 páginas |
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40 feet adjusted aforesaid Amount Meter Registering Amount of Error Amount Reading Amount Scale APPARATUS burners capacity per hour Cent centage of error charged with water cistern close the cock convenient correct cubic feet cubic feet measuring cubic foot bottle discharged Ditto dry meter feet per hour float of lights foot measure Gas Act Gas Holder GAS MEASUREMENT GAS METER gas or air gasholder reading GOVERNORS inches indicated Lord High Treasurer Maker's Number measuring wheel meter inspectors Meter Registering 40 Meter Registering 50 Metropolitan Board Millbank Street outlet connection outlet of meter Per-centage of Dilatation per-centage of error plugs pointer pressure proving-bench Reading of Amount Reading of Scale Registering 100 Registering 40 Registering 50 feet Scale of Gas screwed socket speed stamped station meters station-meter syphon tank TEST FOR SOUNDNESS test gasholder Test Meter testing operations thermometer transferrer valve verified volume of gas water-line weight Westminster writer
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Página 19 - ... part of its said measuring capacity per hour for all meters of any greater measuring capacity per hour than one hundred cubic feet ; and all meters found to work under such test shall be deemed sound meters, and any meter found not to work under such test shall not be stamped : The meter to be tested for per-centage of error shall be fixed on a horizontal base, and shall be tested at a pressure equal to a column of water five-tenths of an inch high, and passing the quantity of gas or atmospheric...
Página 16 - ... or by increase or by decrease of the water in such meter, or by any other means practically prevented in good meters, to register quantities varying from the true standard measure of gas...
Página 19 - Firstly, the meters shall be tested for soundness or leakage only, and not for percentage of error, when fixed on a horizontal base, and with gas under a pressure equal to a column of water three inches high, with a light or lights consuming not more than one-twentieth part of its measuring capacity per hour marked thereon...
Página 4 - Treasury of the United Kingdom for the Time being shall judge expedient, and, from Time to Time after the Expiration of the aforesaid Period of Three Months, Models of such further Multiples and Decimal parts of the said...
Página 4 - Kingdom for the time being shall judge expedient, and from time to time after the expiration of the aforesaid period of three months models of such further multiples and decimal parts of the said cubic foot as the Lord High Treasurer or the said Commissioners shall from time to time think expedient, shall be carefully made, with proper balances, indices, and apparatus, for testing the measurement and registration of meters...
Página 4 - Copies thereof, verified as aforesaid, shall be sent to the Lord Mayor of London and the Chief Magistrate of Edinburgh and Dublin, and of such other Cities and Places, and to such other Places and Persons in His Majesty's Dominions or elsewhere, as the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury may from time to time direct.
Página 16 - ... shall be stamped by the inspectors, if found correct, within the meaning of this Act, in all other respects except that it is capable of being made by abstraction of water to register incorrectly against the seller of gas, but it shall not be lawful after the time aforesaid to use in the sale of gas any such meter, when so stamped by the inspector, except by written agreement between the buyer and seller, specifying that this description of meter shall be used.
Página 4 - ... water weighed in air at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches, except as relates to contracts made before the passing of this Act by which a different unit of measure is adopted, which contracts may not be renewed.
Página 16 - ... of being made to register quantities varying beyond the limits aforesaid, shall be deemed incorrect within the meaning of this Act ; and every meter which shall be found by such inspector to measure and register quantities accurately, or not varying beyond the limits aforesaid, and shall be found incapable by any such means as aforesaid of being made to register quantities varying beyond the limits aforesaid, shall be considered to be correct...
Página 4 - Within Three Months next after the passing of this Act, Models of Gasholders measuring the said Cubic Foot, and such Multiples and Decimal Parts of the said Cubic Foot as the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of Her...