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Definition of Escape valve
1. Noun. A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escape Valve
Literary usage of Escape valve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanics' Magazine (1854)
"ESCAPE-VALVE AND GOVERNOR. The horizontal-engine has of late years become a
favourite engine in the ... The object of the improved escape-valve described in ..."
2. Water-supply Engineering: The Designing and Constructing of Water-supply Systems by Amory Prescott Folwell (1917)
"Air escape valve. On all pressure conduits, blow-offs should be provided at low
points for use in flushing dirt out of the pipe, and at every summit there ..."
3. Water-supply Engineering; the Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of by Amory Prescott Folwell (1899)
"AIR-escape valve. escape through this and the use of an air-escape valve is
unnecessary. The most desirable line from a reservoir or intake to the point of ..."
4. Water-supply Engineering: The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of by Amory Prescott Folwell (1899)
"AIR-escape valve. escape through this and the use of an air-escape valve is
unnecessary. The most desirable line from a reservoir or intake to the point of ..."
5. Proceedings by Journal, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1849)
"This is done by the men on the platform at the top by means of a rod from the
valve carried up the framing; and the escape valve on the top of the cylinder ..."
6. The Farmers' Cabinet, and American Herd-book (1847)
"Let a represent the spring or reservoir, 6 the induction or feeding pipe, с the
air chamber of the ram, d the escape valve, e the eduction or raising pipe, ..."
7. The Control of Water as Applied to Irrigation, Power and Town Water Supply by Philip à Morley Parker (1913)
"Cycle of operation—Period of escape—Closure of escape valve—Period of delivery—Shock
loss—"Indicator diagram" — Observations- Approximate indicator ..."
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