Any of two or more similar adjacent fixtures that discharge into a common horizontal soil or waste branch.
Battery of Fixtures
An open return bend usually made up two 90° bends with inside and outside threads, flanged or welded fittings; and applied also to a one hundred eighty degrees bend in copper tubings.
Return Bend
Plugging an opening with oakum, lead, or other materials that are pounded into the annular space. Also, the material pounded into the annular opening.
Caulking
In Plumbing Code, referred to as “Pitch”
Grade
It is the discharge from any fixture, appliance, or appurtenance in connection with a plumbing system that does not receive fecal matter.
Liquid Waste
That portion of rainfall or other precipitation which runs off over the surface of the ground.
Surface Water
In a classification of plumbing fixtures, “______” applies to plumbing fixtures in residences and apartments, to private bathrooms in hotels and hospitals, to restrooms in commercial establishments for restricted use, single fixture or group of single fixtures and to similar installations where the fixtures are intended for the use of a family or an individual.
Private
A vertical vent connection on a horizontal soil or waste pipe branch at a point downstream of the last fixture correction and turning to a horizontal line above the highest overflow level of the highest fixture connected thereat; the terminus connected to the stack vent in the case of loop venting or to the vent stack nearby in the case of circuit venting.
Loop or Circuit Vent
The vertical distance from the “Grade Line” to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the top line of a measured roof or to the average height of the highest gable of a pitch or hip-roof
Height of Building
A pipe fitting with adjacent reverse bends and shaped like the letter “S’’
Double-bend fitting
A device designed to retain grease from one to a maximum of four fixtures.
Grease Trap
Any joint or seam obtained by the joining of metal parts in a plastic molten state.
Welded Joint or Seam
A vertical vent line, the primary function of which is to provide additional circulation of air between the drainage and vent systems or to act as an auxiliary vent on a specially designed system such as a ‘‘yoke vent” connection between the soil and vent stacks.
Relief Vent
An impairment of the quality of the water to a degree which creates a hazard to public health and adversely affects the aesthetic and potable qualities of water for domestic use
Pollution
A standpipe that operates automatically by opening a hose valve.
Automatic Standpipe System
The vertical main of a system of soil, waste or vent piping extending through one or more stories and extended thru the roof.
Stack
Also known as Street Main
Water Main
Confined Space - A room or space having a volume of less than 1.4 cu. m with ____ kilogram calorie of the aggregate input rating of all fuel-burning appliances installed in that space.
250 kilogram calorie
The normal force exerted by a homogeneous liquid or gas, per unit of area on the wall of the container
Pressure
Hemp or old hemp rope soaked in oil or tar to make it waterproof.
Oakum
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and wastewater.
Sewer
A pipe flange that is not drilled for bolt holes.
Blank Flange
That part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system that starts from the end of the building drain and which receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system, or other points of disposal.
Building Sewer
A vertical pipe to convey rainwater.
Conductor
