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Maintenance - Sewer cleaning equipment (3) (Click on thumbnails to enlarge image) |
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Maintenance - Sewer cleaning equipment (3) (Click on thumbnails to enlarge image) |
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Method of using disk cleaner shown above. Source: A. Prescott Folwell, Sewerage: The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage Systems, 7th edition (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1916), p. 356. |
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Sewer maintenance equipment, Eastern Europe. Date unknown. Source: Richard Beck, received from the private collection of Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, University of Berlin, Germany. |
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Sewer maintenance equipment, Eastern Europe. Date unknown. Source: Richard Beck, received from the private collection of Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, University of Berlin, Germany. |
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Sewer maintenance equipment, Eastern Europe. Date unknown. Source: Richard Beck, received from the private collection of Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, University of Berlin, Germany. |
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Sewer maintenance equipment, Eastern Europe. Date unknown. Source: Richard Beck, received from the private collection of Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, University of Berlin, Germany. |
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1912 catalog for Champion Potato Machinery Company. This company (later the OK Champion Co.) manufactured early sewer cleaning implements. |
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Turbine sewer cleaning machine removing tar from a sewer at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 1915. Source: "The Turbine Sewer Machine for Cleaning Difficult Sewer Stoppages," Municipal Engineering, Volume XLIX (July-December 1915), p. 37. |
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Portrait of Otto Knoerzer, founder of the Champion Potato Machinery Company. This company (later the OK Champion Co.) manufactured early sewer cleaning implements including the Kuhlman sewer cleaning machine (see below). |
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Kuhlman sewer cleaning machine, Gary, Indiana, circa 1916. This invention of John Kuhlman was manufactured early on by the Champion Potato Machine Co., which later changed its name to the OK Champion Co. Information about the history of Mr. Kuhlman's invention can be found at http://www.okchampion.com/web2/articles.html Source: "Kuhlmann Sewer Cleaning Machine," Municipal Engineering, Volume LI, No. 1 (July 1916), p. 31. |
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Advertisement for OK Champion sewer cleaners, manufactured by the OK Champion Co. of Hammond, Indiana, 1937. Source: Water Works and Sewerage, Volume 84, No. 5 (May 1937), p. 289. |
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