This document lists and describes various plumbing fittings and accessories. It discusses 25 different items including elbows, tees, wyes, flexible hoses, angle valves, street elbows, bushings, unions, plugs, gate valves, stop cocks, foot valves, adapters, nipples, barb fittings, couplings, cross fittings, saddle tees, flanges, caps, mechanical sleeves, reducers, clean-outs, and combo tees. Each item is briefly defined and its purpose in plumbing installations is explained.
This document lists and describes various plumbing fittings and accessories. It discusses 25 different items including elbows, tees, wyes, flexible hoses, angle valves, street elbows, bushings, unions, plugs, gate valves, stop cocks, foot valves, adapters, nipples, barb fittings, couplings, cross fittings, saddle tees, flanges, caps, mechanical sleeves, reducers, clean-outs, and combo tees. Each item is briefly defined and its purpose in plumbing installations is explained.
This document lists and describes various plumbing fittings and accessories. It discusses 25 different items including elbows, tees, wyes, flexible hoses, angle valves, street elbows, bushings, unions, plugs, gate valves, stop cocks, foot valves, adapters, nipples, barb fittings, couplings, cross fittings, saddle tees, flanges, caps, mechanical sleeves, reducers, clean-outs, and combo tees. Each item is briefly defined and its purpose in plumbing installations is explained.
1. Elbow 90⁰ pipes and change the direction to a right angle.
A branch fitting used to connect two
2. Tee direction of water supply.
3. Wye A branch fitting used for drainage
installation.
4. Flexible A hose for connecting water supply hose for to a fixture such as, lavatory. lavatory
5. Angle A valve used to connect water
valve supply to a plumbing fixture.
A kind of fittings with male and a
6. Street female thread used for connecting at elbow right angle direction.
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7. Bushing A fitting with male and female
thread used for reducing pipeline.
Used for connecting two existing
8. Union pipelines or during repair and replacement.
9. Plug A type of fittings used to plug a
line specially water supply.
It is an accessory used for
10. Gate valve opening and closing the line.
11. Various Various fittings for different
fittings connections.
A device installed in the water
12. Stop cock supply system to control the reverse flow of liquid.
A type of check valve that only
13. Foot valve allows one direction of flow.
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They’re used to connect different
14. Adapter sized pipes, or even turn a male pipe into a female, and vice versa.
It connects pipes to appliances
15. Nipple such as water heaters, and connects two straight pipe runs.
Barb fittings are generally male at
one end and have a tapered and 16. Barb ridged cone at the other. They’re designed to grip the inside of a tube and seal the connection.
They’re also commonly used to
change pipe sizes; a bell reducer 17. Coupling is a common coupling used to do this since it connects a big pipe to a smaller one.
They consist of one inlet and
three outlets, and these often 18. Cross have a solvent-welded socket or female-threaded ends.
Often used in irrigation systems
when you need to add a new 19. Saddle tees sprinkler line. Saddle tees are “snapped” onto the pipe using glue.
20. Flanges A flange is a round fitting used to
connect pipes. The pipes are either threaded or welded to the
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Caps are used to cover the end of
21. Caps an open pipe and are liquid- and gas-tight.
A mechanical sleeve joins two
22. Mechanical pipes using a screw or other sleeve device and is easy to install.
A reducer is designed to reduce
23. Reducer flow.
A clean-out fitting features
removable parts that allow access to drains without the need to undo 24. Clean-outs plumbing fixtures. Clean-outs will enable an auger (a type of drill) to enter and clean a clogged drain.
Combination tees have a
gradually curving central branch. 25. Combo tee They’re used in drains to give a smooth, slightly curving path to reduce the chances of clogs.
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