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Pipes - pipe joints (Click on thumbnails to enlarge image) |
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Pipes - pipe joints (Click on thumbnails to enlarge image) |
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Views of 24-inch adjustable and 6-inch flex-form molds for poured joints in clay pipe sewers, circa 1918. Source: "Making Tight Joints in Vitrified Clay Sewer Lines," Municipal Engineering, Volume LV, No. 1 (June 1918), p. 253. |
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Method of pouring joints in pipe sewer construction circa 1918. Left to right: applying the form in the trench; pouring a joint with cement grout; a neat, economical and impervious joint. Source: H. P. Boynton, "Latest Developments in Poured Joints for Vitrified Pipe Sewers," Municipal Engineering, Volume LIV, No. 3 (March 1918), p. 92. |
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Soldering a joint of cast iron sewer pipe at migrant camp under construction at Sinton, Texas. Photograph by Russell Lee, 1903-. Photo date October 1939. Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction number LC-USF33-012459-M3 DLC. |
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Typical types of joints (and joint sealing methods) for
bell and spigot sewer pipes.
Source: Harold E. Babbitt, Sewerage and Sewage Treatment, 6th edition (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1949), p. 148. |
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Hot pour sealing of sewer pipe joints. Date unknown.
Source: National Clay Pipe Institute. |
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Hot pour sealing of sewer pipe joints. Date unknown.
Source: National Clay Pipe Institute. |
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