Water Hammer Arresters

<body> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400"> Water Hammer Arresters built by Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co. for the Commercial Plumbing and Drainage Industry.</span></h1> <p>Water Hammer Arresters (also known as hydropneumatic devices) such as a hydropneumatic accumulator or pulsation dampener using very different words. In many cases this can cause a great deal of word usage confusion. This article includes information about devices that prevent, and do not either absorb, alleviate, arrest, attenuate, nor suppress a shock that exists (devices which prevent the creation of a shock wave at an otherwise higher level). Other words frequently used for devices such as pulsation dampeners, hydropneumatic accumulators, water hammer preventers, water hammer arrestors, and others, are included. Confusion from large numbers of phrases: In the activity of preventing liquid shocks, surge pressures, and "water hammer" there is general confusion, because there are at least sixty, English, two and three word phrases, with the same general meaning. The following need to be used in both singular and pluralization for internet searches: Shock: shock absorber, shock alleviator, shock arrestor, shock attenuator, shock suppresor, shock preventer. Surge: surge absorber, surge alleviator, surge arrestor, surge attenuator, surge preventer. Water Hammer: water hammer absorber, water hammer alleviator, water hammer arrester, water hammer attenuator, water hammer suppresor, water hammer preventer. Confusion from word implications: The wrong implications: Most of these phrases imply that the shock, the surge, or the water hammer is addressed after it has been created. In fact most of those phrased apply to hydropneumatic devices that PREVENT a high level of shock, surge, or hammer, from occurring at all. The named devices are rarely designed to respond to a pressure incident in a liquid which must have an approximate typical velocity of 1,440 meters per second. Water Hammer Arresters built by Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co. are designed to meet the demands of todays plumbing systems.</p> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> <p>Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co. Engineered / Specification Plumbing Products builds Water Hammer Arresters for the Non-Residential (Commercial) Construction Market</p> </body>