Fuse Plug - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: fuse plugFuse plug
A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse...
Fire-plugs
Fire-plugs. As to the duty of urban authorities to provide fire-plugs, see (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c.55), s. 66, and (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), s. 124. As to the like duty of undertakers of waterworks, see (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 17), ss. 38-43. As to the metropolis, see 34 & 35 Vict. c. 113, s. 34....
plug-in
plug-in ...
Plug board
A switchboard in which connections are made by means of plugs...
Plugging
The act of stopping with a plug...
Bickford fuse
A fuse used in blasting consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute...
Coherer
Any device in which an imperfectly conducting contact between pieces of metal or other conductors loosely resting against each other is materially improved in conductivity by the influence of Hertzian waves so called by Sir O J Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere or weld together a condition easily destroyed by tapping A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts between terminal wires or plugs called conductor plugs...
circuit breaker
A device contained within an electrical circuit designed to interrupt the circuit when the current exceeds a preset value it is sometimes called a contact breaker Its function is to prevent fire or damage to the circuit or the devices on the circuit which could be caused by excess current such as that caused by a short circuit It differs from a fuse in not having a conducting element which melts see 2nd fuse n Circuit breakers are designed to be easily reset i e to reclose the circuit after it has been opened by the circuit breaker this is usually accomplished by simply moving a switch back and forth They are commonly used in buildings to protect individual electrical lines and are often contained in groups within a box called a circuit breaker panel which divides the current from a main electrical line into multiple circuits each protected by a separate circuit breaker Less commonly they may be found on individual devices...
Amalgamation
Amalgamation, in amalgamation two or more companies are fused into one by merger or by taking over by another. Reconstruction or 'amalgamation' has no precise legal meaning. The amalgamation is a blending of two or more existing undertakings into one undertaking, the share-holders of each blending company become substantially the shareholders in the company which is to carry on the blended undertakings. There may be amalgamation either by the transfer of two or more undertakings to a new company, or by the transfer of one or more undertakings to an existing company. Strictly 'amalgamation' does not cover the mere acquisition by a company of the share capital of other company which remains in existence and continues its undertaking but the context in which the term is used may show that it is intended to include such an acquisition, Saraswati Industrial Syndicate Ltd. v. C.I.T., 1990 Supp SCC 675 (679).Amalgamation, in an amalgamation two or more companies are fused into one by merger o...
estop
estop es·topped es·top·ping [Anglo-French estop(p)er, literally, to stop up, from Middle French estouper, ultimately from Latin stuppa hemp fiber (used for plugging holes)] : to impede or bar by estoppel ...
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