An increasing number of centrifagal pumps, generally belt driven by small of engines, are pow in use and" this type of pump has the advantage of having no valves to give trouble but it must be driven at a high speed or its ise and weight render it unsuit Messrs. Inniss & Riddle (China) Ltd, have recently placed on this market an extremely compact and rugged portable outfit,—the Home-lite Portable Pump, which weighs only 95 1b. and will pump no less than 7,500 gallons per hour at fuel cost of ten cents (Mex.) per hour. This quantity of water represents 'a solid stream two inches in diameter.
The pump is suitable for lifting up to 50 feet.
The equipment consists of an air-cooled valveless Kerosene engine fitted with water-proof Bosch magneto and direct-coupled in the same easing to a high efficiency centrifug pump having a bronze impeller with ample clearances t0 allow of being used for the mud-chest water. The kerosene (fuel) tank is bolted below the casing ani rests on four coil sprit 0 that no foundation of any kind is required, Ig is but 20 inches long by 13 inches wide.
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