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Peerless steam engine built by Geiser Manufacturing in 1895 List of Geiser products and associated numbers, 1924 Geiser Manufacturing Company office. Geiser Manufacturing Company was an early manufacturing company in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. Geiser Manufacturing was incorporated in 1869 by Peter and Daniel Geiser. [1]
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.
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.
Variable Speed Fire Pump Controllers were invented and released with a UL Listing for fire pump service in 2003 by Master Control Systems, Inc. [1] [2] Paragraph 10.5.5 in the 2003 edition of NFPA-20 recognized Variable Speed as an accepted method for operating the fire pump. Then in the NFPA-20 2007 edition, section 10.10 was added to clarify ...
[3] [4] Under Booker, Godiva Fire Pumps came under Sigmund Pulsometer Pumps Ltd (SPP) – who within a 9-month period also acquired Europump Services Ltd of Bristol and 76% share in Robot Pumpen NV of Holland. [5] In April 1988 Braithwaite Holding Company acquired SPP (and hence Godiva Fire Pumps) for £31 million.
Two steam powered water pumps and an air compressor pre-1915. The "Marsh" portion of the company name came from Elon Marsh, an engineer at the company. In the 1930s they manufactured the TURBO pump. Today the largest pump they market is the 480 Vertical turbine pump. The company is considered a major pump manufacturer and key pump design developer.
Peerless Motor Company factory in Cleveland, circa 1910s. Peerless Motors was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1900 at 43 Lisbon Street. It began manufacturing automobiles while using De Dion-Bouton engines under license from the French company. [4] Engineer Louis P. Mooers designed the first Peerless models, as well as several proprietary ...