Monster Pumping Plant.
Moran Bros. Company have been awarded the contract for furnishing the pumping plant complete for the United States naval dry dock at Port Orchard. This is by far the largest contract of this nature ever let in the State of Washington.
The pumping plant is to comprise three centrifugal pumps for pumping out the dock, each pump to be driven by a separate engine. The suction and discharge pipes will be forty-two inches internal diameter, the suction pipe dividing to admit the water on both sides of the wheel, thus balancing the runner and avoiding side thrust. Each pump will be fitted with a steam ejector for use in charging the pump before starting. Each pump will be driven byan upright non-condensing engine with cylinder twenty-eight inches in diameter and twenty-four inch stroke, and fitted with balanced valve and variable cut-offs, and constructed throughout of the best material and workmanship.
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