Sluice gates

Usage examples of valves.

The bridge, stretching from side to side of the bottling hall, was about twelve feet wide, railed at the sides, with four feeder vats on it standing taller than my head, each with a ladder bolted to its side so that one could go up to the entry valves on top.

Twelve Legionnaires, armed, stood in line beneath her valves, wearily alert.

The first man, at the control mechanism of the valves, was not even armed.

Yet he came waddling through the great steel valves as confidently as if he had come to take command of the station.

His pale eyes measured the shining steel valves, caressed the red-painted pumps, read the winking lights of the lock monitor.

An inner slice of each cylinder, spinning slower than the spokes, was pierced for the valves that let ships enter the air docks.

What was that in his handanother of those valves, maybe the old one, rolling in his blackened fingers.

But that might mean that both of the creation valves on opposite sides of the hull might escape damage.

Then he decided that all he had to do was to make sure that only one of the valves was destroyed.

In this door-check there may be a mixture of water, alcohol and glycerine, the alcohol to prevent freezing in cold weather, and the glycerine to give body to the mixture so it will not flow through the valves too freely.

Each vat, on its front, had large valves for loading and unloading, a small valve for testing, a quantity gauge, and a holder into which one could slot a card identifying the present contents.

Who cared about mitral valves and ejection fractions when she had very sick babies to worry about?

The middle of the ship was laced with valves and piping, and carried no superstructure, but the stern section rose several decks, sprouting an ugly maze of ventilation tubes.

When he had his hands firmly on the air valves, March nodded and Pitt dropped beside him and tightened down the hatch.

Best solution would be to jam the emergency valves closed to prevent blowing and jam the torpedo tubes open to keep the sea coming in.