Ordinance 2719 - Laserfiche WebLink

r or of open hearth steel or wrought iron painted on the out- • side with a good grade asphaltum paint. "_yanks of a capacit exceeding Three ( 3) gallons, but not exceeding gallons hall be of metal not less than No. 18 U. S. Standard gauge in tr ckness. Tanks exceeding A .. ) gallons, but not exceeding Two Hundred (200) gallons cap city, shall be of metal not less than No. 16 U. S. Standar gauge in thick- ness. -160 ( j ) No glass bottle oil container and no oil • supply tank of the vacuum feed tjpe shall have a capacity in excess of Three (3 ) gallons. (k) very gravity oil burner shall be pro- vided with an automatic safeguard to prevent flooding of the burner, which may be a trip bucket or a proper arrangement of the burner equipment to maintain a constant or fixed level of oil to prevent abnormal discharge of oil. (1) No gravity oil tank or container shall be provided with an oil level gauge which leaks or is likely to leak. Glass gauges, except as permitted for glass bottle oil containers are prohibited. (m) No damper which may entirely close the chimney uptake shall be installed or used in any smokepipe between a gravity oil burner and the chimney and the air regulating device on the front of the stove, range, furnace or other heating device shall be permanently fastened in the open position. (n) Standard full weight wrought iron or steel pipe not less than one-fourth inch inside diameter, or brass or copper tubing not less than five-sixteenths inch outside diameter with a wall thickness not less than .049 inch for small sizes and correspondingly heavier where necessary, shall be used for oil supply lines. All piping and tubing shall be tightly put together with due allowance for expansion, contraction, jarring and vibration and where necessary, protected against mechanical injury. ( o) Gravity oil burning equipment shall comply with the requirements of this ordinance relating, to oil burners to which oil fuel is delivered to the burner by pump- ing, insofar as the same are practicable and do not conflict with the requirements of this section. Section 6: Nothing in the foregoing provisions relating to gravity oil burners shall be construed as pro- hibiting the sale, installation or use of oil burning stoves as hereinbefore defined; provided, such stoves shall comply with the following requirements: (a) Only such oil burning stoves as have been inspected and approved by the Are Chief, as else- where herein provided, shall be offered for sale , installed or used within the City of L2verett . (b ) The Fire Chief may reject or disapprove any oil burning stove which is not provided with adequate safeguards against fire or explosion or which in his judgment is otherwise unsafe for use within the City of _,:verett . •