National building code

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...automatic sprinklers placed at the ceiling of each story below the first or grade floor and extending to the full depth and breadth of the building. Buildings of large area, which are occupied for mercantile or manufacturing purposes, when located within a congested district, forming, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Buildings or Chief of Fire Department, "Conflagration Breeders," shall be protected throughout the entire building with automatic sprinklers. The pipe sizes and spacing of heads for said sprinkler system shall conform to the schedule and rules recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, which are hereby made a part of the requirements of this Code. Said sprinkler pipes shall be connected with a pipe of not less than four inches in diameter leading to the outside of building and there provided with an approved Siamese steamer connection, latter to be installed under requirements set forth in this Section, and to be under the control and for the use of the Fire Department. A suitable iron plate with raised letters shall be securely attached to the wall near said steamer connection, reading "Cellar Sprinklers" where sprinklers are installed in cellars only and reading "Automatic Sprinklers" where the entire building is so protected. SECTION 104. Fire-Escapes. Every apartment house, tenement house or dwelling house occupied by or built to be occupied by three or more families, And every building already erected, or that may hereafter be erected, more than three stories in height, occupied and used as a hotel, apartment-hotel or lodging house, and every boarding house, having more than fifteen sleeping rooms above the basement story, And every factory, mill, manufactory or workshop, hospital, asylum or ...