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When the handle of a flush toilet with a tank (British, cistern) is turned, a discharge mechanism is activated by means of a rod or chain. The mechanism may be a flapper valve, which is designed to sink more slowly than the water - allowing the water to exit to the toilet bowl below, so that the tank may empty.
Ogden maintained Case as a subsidiary known as the Case Plumbing Manufacturing Company until it was sold to Briggs Manufacturing in November 1964. [3] Briggs consolidated its plumbing operations with Case, and by 1969 the company was dissolved a separate entity altogether, with Briggs retaining the name for some branding into the 1970s.
The nozzle and flapper mechanism is a displacement type detector which converts mechanical movement into a pressure signal by covering the opening of a nozzle with a flat plate called the flapper. [1] This restricts fluid flow through the nozzle and generates a pressure signal.
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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.
A flapper was a trendy young woman in the 1920s. Flapper may also refer to: Flapper (company), a Brazilian transportation network company for aviation; The Flapper, a 1920 American film directed by Alan Crosland; Flapper valve, a part of some flush toilet mechanisms; Flappers, a Canadian sitcom produced by the CBC in the late 1970s