|  | F |
SECTION F — MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING

ENGINEERING IN GENERAL

|  | F16 |
ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND. UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS

|  | F16T |
STEAM TRAPS OR THE LIKE

|  | F16T 1/00 |
Steam traps or like apparatus for releasing, e.g. draining-off liquid from pipe lines, e.g. steam lines or from containers for gases or vapours, e.g. steam drums

|  | F16T 1/02 |
· | with valves controlled thermally

|  | F16T 1/04 |
· · | by expansion rods

|  | F16T 1/06 |
· · | by expansion tubes

|  | F16T 1/08 |
· · | by bimetallic strips or plates

|  | F16T 1/10 |
· · | by thermally-expansible liquids

|  | F16T 1/12 |
· | with valves controlled by excess or release of pressure

|  | F16T 1/14 |
· · | involving a piston, diaphragm, or bellows, e.g. displaceable under pressure of incoming condensate

|  | F16T 1/16 |
· · | involving a high-pressure chamber and a low-pressure chamber communicating with one another, i.e. thermodynamic steam chambers

|  | F16T 1/18 |
· · | involving a vacuum chamber

|  | F16T 1/20 |
· | with valves controlled by floats

|  | F16T 1/22 |
· · | of closed-hollow-body type

|  | F16T 1/24 |
· · · | using levers

|  | F16T 1/26 |
· · | of upright-open-bucket type

|  | F16T 1/28 |
· · · | using levers

|  | F16T 1/30 |
· · | of inverted-open-bucket type; of bell type

|  | F16T 1/32 |
· · | of rocking or tilting type

|  | F16T 1/34 |
· | without moving parts other than hand valves, e.g. labyrinth type

|  | F16T 1/36 |
· | specially adapted for steam lines of low pressure

|  | F16T 1/38 |
· | Component parts; Accessories

|  | F16T 1/40 |
· · | Actuating mechanisms of ball valves

|  | F16T 1/42 |
· · | Actuating mechanisms of slide valves

|  | F16T 1/44 |
· · | Valve arrangements for venting air from pipe lines; Valve arrangements for preventing inlet of atmospheric air into pipe lines

|  | F16T 1/46 |
· · | Valves opening when pressure or vacuum is cut off

|  | F16T 1/48 |
· · | Monitoring arrangements for inspecting, e.g. flow of steam and steam condensate