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METER BOX [11 fiches]

Fiche 1 2020-06-10

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Public Utilities (Civil Engineering)
DEF

The location of a public utility connection on or in a building which allows the utility to be used by the building occupants.

CONT

The service entrance [for electricity], as the name implies, is where the wires connected to the load side of the meter enter the house or building. The service entrance in a residence is commonly thought of as a breaker or fuse box. In larger, more complicated commercial or industrial electrical systems, the service entrance may be a main disconnect panel or a trough where up to six main switches are present.

OBS

The service entrance is typically where the public utility provider’s safety and maintenance responsibilities end and the user’s or building owner’s safety and maintenance responsibilities begin, and where usage metering equipment is installed.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Services d'utilité publique (Génie civil)
DEF

L'emplacement sur ou dans un bâtiment où un service public se branche au bâtiment pour l'utilisation par les occupants du bâtiment. L'emplacement d'un branchement d'utilité publique sur ou dans un bâtiment à l'usage des occupants.

CONT

Une seule entrée de service est autorisée pour le bâtiment principal pour l'électricité, l'aqueduc, l'égout et le gaz naturel.

OBS

L'entrée de service est généralement l'endroit où les responsabilités de sécurité et d'entretien du fournisseur du services public prennent fin et où commencent les responsabilités de sécurité de l'utilisateur ou du propriétaire du bâtiment, et où se trouve l'équipement de mesurage de l'utilisation.

Espagnol

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Fiche 2 2012-10-04

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
DEF

cokes: The standard grades of hot-dipped tinplates, that carry about 0.56 kg of tin per basis box (i.e. lighter coating than the charcoal grades), that consist of mild-steel coated with tin, and that are used for packaging, canning and general purposes.

CONT

Various grades of hot-dipped tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

CONT

Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal, have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1. 24 and 2. 5 pounds per base box-on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box. For roofing applications, heavier charcoal weight coatings have always been preferred. Common cokes, 1. 25 lb/base box. Standard cokes, 1. 50 lb/base box; Best cokes, 1. 70 lb/base box. "Kanners" special cokes, 2. 0 lb/base box.... Weight of coating on an electrolytic plate is a measurement of amount of coating on both sides of sheet, expressed in grams per square meter. Prior to adoption of this system, a "pot yield" method was used. The coating designation numbers are a hold over from this earlier system.

OBS

coke; common coke: Terms usually used in the plural ("cokes"; "common cokes").

Terme(s)-clé(s)
  • cokes
  • common cokes

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier
OBS

Fer blanc étamé à chaud à partir de fers noirs laminés [...] Qualités : Common coke et standard coke.

Terme(s)-clé(s)
  • fer-blanc à étamage mince
  • fer-blanc étamé en couche d'épaisseur ordinaire
  • fer-blanc de qualité «common coke»
  • fer-blanc étamé de qualité «common coke»

Espagnol

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Fiche 3 2012-10-02

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal, have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1. 24 and 2. 5 pounds per base box-on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box. For roofing applications, heavier charcoal weight coatings have always been preferred. Common cokes, 1. 25 lb/base box. Standard cokes, 1. 50 lb/base box; Best cokes, 1. 70 lb/base box. "Kanners" special cokes, 2. 0 lb/base box.... Weight of coating on an electrolytic plate is a measurement of amount of coating on both sides of sheet, expressed in grams per square meter. Prior to adoption of this system, a "pot yield" method was used. The coating designation numbers are a hold over from this earlier system.

CONT

Various grades of hot-dipped tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

OBS

This grade of tin-plate carries heavier coatings of tin than coke grades but less than charcoal grades.

OBS

best coke: Usually used in the plural ("best cokes").

Terme(s)-clé(s)
  • best cokes
  • best coke tin-plate

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier

Espagnol

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Fiche 4 2003-06-09

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Water Distribution (Water Supply)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
CONT

The Water Department utilizes an electronic outside reading device to conveniently read water meters, without the need to interrupt residents or enter their homes. The outside reading device(ARB) is a small black rectangular box that is attached to a certain location on the exterior of the building.... The ARB is electronically connected by a wire to the inside water meter. A special reading gun is used by the meter readers to read the inside meter, without the need to enter the home/business. The reading gun is inserted into the ARB and is given the water consumption reading electronically.... Having the outside "automatic reading box(ARB) accessible at all times to meter reading personnel is vital. This allows the Water Department to bill you based on an actual reading, not an estimated reading.

OBS

The black box on the outside wall of your home allows our meter reader to read your meter electronically.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Distribution de l'eau
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
OBS

La boîte noire située à l'extérieur de votre maison facilite la lecture électronique de votre compteur d'eau.

OBS

Invensys Metering Systems [...] est un leader mondial fournisseur de compteurs d'eau, gaz, électricité et chaleur, de produits de couplage et de serrage de circuits, et de systèmes de lecture automatique de compteurs AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) pour les utilitaires.

Espagnol

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Fiche 5 1999-10-15

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
  • Steel
CONT

Tin plate is now sold both on a weight per unit area basis and on a thickness basis. The old unit of area is the base box, equal to the area of 112 sheets, 14 by 20 inches, or 31 360 square inches (217.78 square feet). The new unit of thickness is the millimetre and the corresponding area designation for pricing and weight or area calculations is the SITA (System International Tin Plate Area) which equals 100 square metres or 4.9426 base boxes. ... The use of symbols to designate gage was displaced by the use of base weights (or basis weights) expressed in pounds per base box that also indicated the approximate thickness of the tin-mill product ... With the recent introduction of the metric system (SI) in production, gage is the basic unit for specification and area becomes only a derived value for commercial usage.

CONT

Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1.24 and 2.5 pounds per base box - on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box.

CONT

The commercial grades of electrolytic tin plate available at present include coating weights of 2. 2, 5. 6, 7. 7, 11. 2, 16. 8 and 22. 4 grams of tin per square meter(0. 10, 0. 25, 0. 35, 0. 50, 0. 75 and 1. 00 pound of tin per base box), identified by the numerals 10, 25, 35, 50, 75 and 100 respectively.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
  • Acier
CONT

Fer blanc (tin plate). [...] Suivant le procédé utilisé, l'épaisseur de la couche d'étain varie de 0,4 micron dans le fer blanc électrolytique à 20 microns dans le fer blanc au trempé. [...] L'appréciation d'un fer blanc est caractérisée d'une part par l'épaisseur et la composition de l'acier de base et, d'autre part, par le taux d'étamage. En France, celui-ci représente la quantité d'étain déposée par unité de surface de feuille sur les deux faces, exprimée en grammes par mètre carré (taux courants : 27 g, 33 g, 40 g, 49 g). En Angleterre, le poids du revêtement d'étain est exprimé en onces par basis box et aux États-Unis en livres par base box (le basis box ou base box étant une unité de surface, utilisée dans l'industrie du fer blanc, et qui équivaut à 40,465 m² de surface étamée.)

OBS

caisse de base : Selon la compagnie Stelco (à Lachine), cet équivalent français est utilisé dans l'industrie. Dans les ouvrages français, l'expression «base box» (de même que son synonyme «basis box») est laissée en anglais.

Espagnol

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Fiche 6 1999-10-15

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal, have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1. 24 and 2. 5 pounds per base box-on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box. For roofing applications, heavier charcoal weight coatings have always been preferred. Common cokes, 1. 25 lb/base box. Standard cokes, 1. 50 lb/base box; Best cokes, 1. 70 lb/base box. "Kanners" special cokes, 2. 0 lb/base box.... Weight of coating on an electrolytic plate is a measurement of amount of coating on both sides of sheet, expressed in grams per square meter. Prior to adoption of this system, a "pot yield" method was used. The coating designation numbers are a hold over from this earlier system.

CONT

Various grades of hot-dipped tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

OBS

This grade of tin-plate carries heavier coatings of tin than coke grades but less than charcoal grades.

Terme(s)-clé(s)
  • Kanners special coke tin-plate
  • Kanners special coke tinplate

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier
Terme(s)-clé(s)
  • fer-blanc étamé en couche d'épaisseur «Kanners special»
  • fer-blanc de qualité «Kanners special»

Espagnol

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Fiche 7 1999-10-15

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

Coating weights : Pure tin coating on a hot-dip tin plate is mechanically distributed over sheet surface by tinning rolls. Due to nature of this tinning operation and elevated temperature of metal it is not possible to control, within close limits, tin coating weight. For these and other reasons, coating is measured and described by "tin pot yield" method. Total weight(in pounds) of tin consumed in manufacture of one base box, is pot yield. Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal, have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1. 24 and 2. 5 pounds per base box-on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box. For roofing applications, heavier charcoal weight coatings have always been preferred. Common cokes, 1. 25 lb/base box. Standard cokes, 1. 50 lb/base box; Best cokes, 1. 70 lb/base box. "Kanners" special cokes, 2. 0 lb/base box.... Weight of coating on an electrolytic plate is a measurement of amount of coating on both sides of sheet, expressed in grams per square meter. Prior to adoption of this system, a "pot yield" method was used. The coating designation numbers are a hold over from this earlier system.

OBS

Various grades of hot-dipped in tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

Terme(s)-clé(s)
  • pot yield

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier
OBS

rendement de l'étain au creuset : équivalent proposé par la compagnie Stelco à Lachine.

Espagnol

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Fiche 8 1999-10-15

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal, have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1. 24 and 2. 5 pounds per base box-on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box. For roofing applications, heavier charcoal weight coatings have always been preferred. Common cokes, 1. 25 lb/base box. Standard cokes, 1. 50 lb/base box; Best cokes, 1. 70 lb/base box. "Kanners" special cokes, 2. 0 lb/base box.... Weight of coating on an electrolytic plate is a measurement of amount of coating on both sides of sheet, expressed in grams per square meter. Prior to adoption of this system, a "pot yield" method was used. The coating designation numbers are a hold over from this earlier system.

OBS

Various grades of hot-dipped tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier

Espagnol

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Fiche 9 1998-02-12

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
CONT

The MainGuard [trademark] is a high-quality, fully featured 2" blow-off hydrant... [used] mainly for water main flushing purposes.... can be placed in a meter box if an underground installation is desired.

CONT

Where deadend mains occur they shall be provided with a fire hydrant if flow and pressure are sufficient, or with an approved flushing hydrant or blowoff for flushing purposes. No flushing device shall be directly connected to any sewer.

OBS

Fire Hydrant Flushing. Hydrant flushing is a maintenance procedure needed to clean the water mains and to operate and maintain each fire hydrant in the Township.

OBS

... you may see New Jersey-American employees releasing water from hydrants in your community. This process, called "flushing," allows us to test the hydrants to ensure that they work properly. The sudden movement of water also removes sediment from the pipes to enhance the performance of the company’s distribution system and maintain the clarity of your water.

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
OBS

Propositions sous toutes réserves.

OBS

Les avantages de la bouche d'incendie Brigadier se résument dans ces quelques mots : [...] drainage automatique. [...] Bouche d'incendie type à ras le sol. [...] La boîte située à la surface peut contenir un tuyau de vidange ou drainage (lequel peut être raccordé à un coude de vidange ou drainage) ou un bouchon obturateur. Dans ce dernier cas, l'eau doit être pompée après chaque utilisation.

Espagnol

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Fiche 10 1983-01-18

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Railroad Maintenance
  • Signalling (Rail Transport)

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien (Équipement ferroviaire)
  • Signalisation (Transport par rail)

Espagnol

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Fiche 11 1976-06-19

Anglais

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Measuring Equipment

Français

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de mesures (Électricité)

Espagnol

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