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Definition of Safety 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.
Definition of Safety valve
1. Noun. A relief valve set to open at a pressure below that at which a container (such as a boiler) would burst ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Safety Valve
Literary usage of Safety valve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"A box safety valve. BRIDLE.— The loop forged on a slide valve rod, or the strips
in a steam ... A dead-load safety valve, or a deadweight safety valve. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1910)
"1232 safety valve CAPACITY BY PHILIP G. DARLING, NEW YORK Associate Member of the
... 3 Two factors in a safety valve geometrically determine the area of ..."
3. Philosophical Magazine (1805)
"... the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, 8cc. live following contrivance
for that purpose : ab, Plate VII. fig. 1, is a common conical safety valve, ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"AA is the head of the safety-valve; BBBB are wings to ... This increased area
may be made by adding to a safety-valve already in use, or by casting the ..."
5. Mechanical Equipment of Buildings: A Reference Book for Engineers and Architects by Louis Allen Harding, Arthur Cutts Willard (1917)
"The safety valve or valves must be connected to the boiler independent ...
A safety valve must not be connected to an internal pipe in the boiler. ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"The area of a lever safety valve is 11 square inches; the distance from the center
line of the valve to the fulcrum, fa inches; the distance of the weight ..."
7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1887)
"Wm. Clarke, for appellant, Consolidated Safety-valve Co. ... The claim of the
patent of 1866, "a safety-valve, with the circular or annular flange or lip, ..."
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