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Steam-pipe, 'stamp-pipe' means any pipe through which steam passes from a boiler to a prime mover or other user or both, if--(i) the pressure at which steam passes through such pipe excludes 3.5 kilograms per square centimeter above atmospheric pressure(ii) such pipe exceeds 254 millimeters in internal diameter and includes in either case any connected fitting of a streams pipe. [Boilers Act, 1923 (5 of 1923), s. 2(f)]...
Blast pipe
The exhaust pipe of a steam engine or any pipe delivering steam or air when so constructed as to cause a blast...
Accident
Accident, anything that happens, an unforeseen or unexpected event, a chance, a mishap, an extraordinary incident; something not expected. It is also a head of equitable jurisdiction, which was concurrent with that of the Courts of Law.Means an unlook for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed, Fenton v. Thorley & Co. Ltd., 1903 AC 443: 72 LJKP 787: 89 LT 314 (HL).The meaning to be attached to the word accident,' in relation to equitable relief, is some unforeseen and undersigned event, productive of disadvantage and not due to negligence or misconduct on the part of the person seeking relief. The cases in which equity may give relief under certain conditions are (1) lost or destroyed documents. (2) Imperfect execution of powers. (3) Erroneous payments, e.g., by personal representatives.In logic, something, in any subject, person, or thing not belonging to the essence. See ESSENCE.The popular and ordinary sense of the word 'accident' means the mishap or an untowa...
Flue pipe
A pipe esp an organ pipe whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air upon an edge or lip causing a wave motion in the air within a mouth pipe distinguished from reed pipe Flue pipes are either open or closed stopped at the distant end The flute and flageolet are open pipes a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows across the neck The organ has both open and closed flue pipes those of metal being usually round in section and those of wood triangular or square...
Pipes and tubes
Pipes and tubes, may be obtained from sheets, billets or bars by various processes, but the process of manufacture of pipes and tubes does not end there. To achieve fully the purpose for which the pipes and tubes are manufactured, it is necessary to manufacture smaller pieces of pipes and tubes and also to manufacture them in such a shape that they may be able to conduct liquid and gases, passing them through and across angles, turnings, corners and curves or regulating their flow in the manner required. Smaller piece of pipes and tubes differently shaped are manufactured for this purpose, Bharat Forge and Press Industries v. C.C.E., AIR 1990 SC 616: (1990) 1 SCC 532....
Steam whistles
Steam whistles. The use of steam whistles in certain manufactories is regulated by the Steam Whistles Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 61)....
Pipe
Pipe, a roll in the Exchequer; otherwise called the great roll. The Pipe Rolls contained an account of the ancient revenue of the Crown, written out in process every year to the several sheriffs of England, who were the general receivers and collectors thereof, and by them levied and answered to the Crown upon their annual accounts, before the clerk of the pipe (First Rep. Of Select Com. on Pub. Rec., App. p. 161). The Pipe-office was abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 99. Consult Hubback on Succession, p. 624....
Pandean pipes
A primitive wind instrument consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes graduated in length by the musical scale and fastened together side by side a syrinx a mouth organ said to have been invented by the god Pan Called also pipes of Pan Pans pipes and Panpipes...
Piped
Formed with a pipe having pipe or pipes tubular...
Pipe line
To convey by a pipe line to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines...
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