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  2. Sloan Valve Company - Wikipedia

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    Sloan also introduced waterfree urinals that use a special trap with a lightweight, biodegradable oil that allows the urine to pass through but prevents odors from escaping. [ 4 ] The company also offers sensor-activated flushometers and other plumbing fixtures, including water-efficient electronic faucets, solid-surface lavatory systems ...

  3. Flushometer - Wikipedia

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    A flushometer is usually installed in a commercial setting with the exception of some older apartments in large cities, [2] as it provides a high-pressure and better-performing wash and flush than a normal gravity toilet.

  4. Owner's manual - Wikipedia

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    2007 Toyota Yaris hatchback owner's manual 1919 Ford Motor Company car and truck operating manual. An owner's manual (also called an instruction manual or a user guide) is an instructional book or booklet that is supplied with almost all technologically advanced consumer products such as vehicles, home appliances and computer peripherals.

  5. Blowout preventer - Wikipedia

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    Blowout preventers are critical to the safety of crew, rig (the equipment system used to drill a wellbore) and environment, and to the monitoring and maintenance of well integrity; thus blowout preventers are intended to provide fail-safety to the systems that include them. The term BOP is used in oilfield vernacular to refer to blowout preventers.

  6. Dromore - Wikipedia

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    Bishop of Dromore, named for the town in County Down; the pre-Reformation antecedent of: Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore; Diocese of Down and Dromore, in the Church of Ireland; Baron Dromore, subsidiary title of Viscount Scudamore in the Peerage of Ireland

  7. Alfred P. Sloan - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. (/ s l oʊ n / SLOHN; May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry.He was a long-time president, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation. [2]

  8. Railway air brake - Wikipedia

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    A comparatively simple brake linkage. In the air brake's simplest form, called the straight air system, compressed air pushes on a piston in a cylinder. The piston is connected through mechanical linkage to brake shoes that can rub on the train wheels, using the resulting friction to slow the train.

  9. Bogie - Wikipedia

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    The system was widely used on British narrow-gauge rolling stock, such as on the Isle of Man and Manx Northern Railways. [16] The Holdfast Bay Railway Company in South Australia , which later became the Glenelg Railway Company, purchased Cleminson-configured carriages in 1880 from the American Gilbert & Bush Company for its 1600 mm ( 5 ft 3 in ...