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Clipper is the brand name of a type of refillable butane lighter, designed by Enric Sardà and owned by Flamagas S.A. [1] since 1959. The lighters are mostly produced in Barcelona, with others manufactured in Chennai and Shanghai. [2] Clipper has a wide range of lighters, gas refills and other accessories.
A gasoline pump or fuel dispenser is a machine at a filling station that is used to pump gasoline (petrol), diesel, or other types of liquid fuel into vehicles. Gasoline pumps are also known as bowsers or petrol bowsers (in Australia and South Africa), [2] [3] petrol pumps (in Commonwealth countries), or gas pumps (in North America).
This was constructed by the Humphrey Gas Pump Co. of Syracuse, NY, who had licensed the Humphrey patents. [5] A single Humphrey pump was installed at a Sewage works in Southend-on-Sea, England during 1914. The pump had head of 65 ft at a capacity of 198,000 gallons per day. Construction works started for a second pump but was cancelled in 1915. [5]
A Honeywell refinery producing green diesel from natural oils in Pasadena, Texas.. The UOP Riverside research and development laboratory in McCook, Illinois was conceived in 1921 by Hiram J. Halle, the chief executive officer of Universal Oil Products (now simply UOP), as a focal point where the best and brightest scientists could create new products and provide scientific support for the oil ...
Small compressed air powered breathing gas booster pump Haskell booster set up for charging rebreather cylinders from premix banks with low pressure compressor. A booster pump is a machine which increases the pressure of a fluid. It may be used with liquids or gases, and the construction details vary depending on the fluid.
George D. Roper became the sole owner of the Van Wie Gas Stove company after the company's debts were paid off on September 1, 1894.10 days later, a fire destroyed the facility. The factory was rebuilt and renamed as the Eclipse Gas Stove Company, and later expanded to include the Trahern Pump Company, found in 1857 and acquired in 1906. [3]
The Ki-Gass system, also referred to as Kigass or K-Gas, is "a system of starting petrol and Diesel engines by injecting finely divided fuel in the form of a mist into the in-take pipe." [ 1 ] The system uses a hand-pump to spray fuel into the air in-take, thus priming the engine for easier starting.
Liquid-ring pumps are typically used as vacuum pumps, but can also be used as gas compressors.The function of a liquid-ring pump is similar to a rotary vane pump, with the difference being that the vanes are a rigid part of the rotor and churn a rotating ring of liquid to form the compression-chamber seal.