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Waterous Company is an American manufacturer of fire pumps, hydrants and fire suppression equipment. Based in South St Paul , Minnesota . [ 1 ] Originally part of Waterous Engine Works Co. Ltd , the fire equipment operation in Winnipeg was relocated to St Paul, Minnesota in 1886 [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
A jockey pump, also known as a pressure-maintenance pump, is a small pump connected to a fire suppression system near the fire pump and is intended to maintain pressure in a fire protection piping system. These pumps recover pressures lost from gradual, slow pressure declines in a system due to temperature changes, trapped air escapement, or ...
This is a crucial parameter for pump selection and is a popularly used parameter for ascertaining industrial requirements. By eliminating the inlet head, we remove the effect of the supplied pressure to the pump and are left with only the pump’s energy (head) contribution to the fluid flow. Schematic representation of pressure heads in a pump.
[1] Peerless Pump was acquired by FMC Corp. in 1932 and continued to assemble, sell and service pumps out of the Fresno facility. [5] In 1976 FMC Corp. sold Peerless Pump to Indian Head. In 2007, Peerless became a wholly owned subsidiary company of the Grundfos group of Denmark. By that time most operations had been consolidated to other locations.
An early device used to squirt water onto a fire is a squirt or fire syringe. Hand squirts and hand pumps are noted before Ctesibius of Alexandria invented the first fire pump circa the 2nd century B.C., [3] and an example of a force-pump possibly used for a fire-engine is mentioned by Heron of Alexandria.
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American-Marsh Pumps is a company that makes self-priming centrifugal pumps.It was originally called American Steam Pump Co., as they started out making steam pumps. They were the first company to market a centrifugal pump, and briefly forayed into making corliss-valved air compressors. [1]
In April 1988 Braithwaite Holding Company acquired SPP (and hence Godiva Fire Pumps) for £31 million. In 1989 they put the Godiva business up for sale, [6] and later that year it was sold and merged with the US Company, Hale Products. In 1994 both were taken over by IDEX Corporation. Godiva pumps continue to be made in Warwick, England.