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Articles on Close coupled include: Close-coupled canard, an aeronautical term; Close-coupled cistern and bowl, a type of flush toilet; Close-coupled sedan, ...
An open front airplane toilet seat, with notices instructing users to not flush rubbish down the toilet, and to keep the toilet seat clean for the next user The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials ' Uniform Plumbing Code , section 409.2.2, requires that "all water closet seats, except those within dwelling units or ...
The modern toilet utilises a cistern to reserve and hold the correct amount of water required to flush the toilet bowl. In earlier toilets, the cistern was located high above the toilet bowl and connected to it by a long pipe. It was necessary to pull a hanging chain connected to a release valve located inside the cistern in order to flush the ...
A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, water closet (WC); see also toilet names) is a toilet that disposes of human waste (i.e., urine and feces) by collecting it in a bowl and then using the force of water to channel it ("flush" it) through a drainpipe to another location for treatment, either nearby or at a communal facility.
For both of these rules of thumb (85%/90% and major minus pitch), the tap drill size yielded is not necessarily the only possible one, but it is a good one for general use. The 85% and 90% rules works best in the range of 1 ⁄ 4 –1 in (6.4–25.4 mm), the sizes most important on many shop floors. Some sizes outside that range have different ...
Screwfix Direct Limited, trading as Screwfix, is a retailer of trade tools, accessories and hardware products based in the United Kingdom. [6] Founded in 1979 as the Woodscrew Supply Company, the company was acquired in July 1999 by Kingfisher plc , which also owns B&Q , and is listed on the London Stock Exchange .
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The time spent at such a table also came to be known as one's "toilet"; it came to be a period during which close friends or tradesmen were received as "toilet-calls". [78] [81] The use of "toilet" to describe a special room for grooming came much later (first attested in 1819), following the French cabinet de toilet.