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Definition of Clack valve
1. Noun. A simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clack Valve
Literary usage of Clack valve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"... of a clack-valve. ... Clack-valve. A valve hinged at one edge, opened by the
passing current, ..."
2. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"The clack valve rests on top of the suction, which is fastened to the lower ...
The forms of clack valve used are : First, a common form, consisting of a ..."
3. State Geological Survey of Kansas. [Reports] by Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"The clack valve rests on top of the suction, which is fastened to the lower ...
The forms of clack valve used are : First, a common form, consisting of a ..."
4. Pumping Machinery: A Treatise on the History, Design, Construction and by Arthur Maurice Greene (1911)
"A double clack valve (Fig. 236) is sometimes called a butterfly valve. ...
A metal clack valve (Fig. 237) may be used at times where the liquid handler! ..."
5. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1856)
"The pipe, S', unites the pipes, H, H, that conduct the motive agent into the
engine ; each of these pipes has a clack valve, which open towards the pipe, ..."
6. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1849)
"On drawing up the ram space between the bottom of it and the ball- clack valve
H is more or less exhausted of air ; but as soon as the ram begins to pass ..."
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