[ noun ] mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden <noun.artifact>
Sprinkler \Sprin"kler\ (-kl[~e]r), n. 1. One who sprinkles.
2. An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.
A garden sprinkler uses as much water in 30 minutes as a family of four consumes in a day of eating, drinking, bathing and flushing.
"The building does not have a sprinkler system, but it does have a standpipe system at every floor," he said.
Plate glass windows bowed at the Palm Springs police station and rims around ceiling sprinkler heads fell to the floor, but few other problems were reported, Starrs said.
In the aftermath, sprinkler systems were installed in schools with wood-based construction, Edward Prendergast, chief fire prevention engineer with the Chicago Fire Department, said Wednesday.
Coors said the ad, in which a bottle of light beer spins around and spouts water like a sprinkler, misleadingly implies that light beers are watered down and Bud Dry isn't.
Chicago Merc officials ordered the unusual across-the-board trading halt after a fire sprinkler pipe sprayed thousands of gallons of water into a telecommunications room beneath the exchange floor.
The 859-foot-tall skyscraper lacked a sprinkler system because it was built in 1973, a year before the city fire code required sprinklers.
Delta Air Lines, responding to another FAA order covering fire sprinkler systems in Boeing 757 cargo holds, said Tuesday it found faulty wiring in two of its aircraft.
They opened the only Italian restaurant in Poland, the only steakhouse and the first casino, and installed the only computer controlled air conditioning and heating system and the only hotel fire sprinkler network.
He had nothing to eat, but soon noticed a water sprinkler nearby, and crawled to it so he could sip water to stay alive.
The restaurant, popular for its panoramic view, had no automatic sprinkler system, duty manager Anton Stadelmann said.
Neither was fitted with a sprinkler system and firefighters complained about low water pressure.
When the temperature falls below freezing, the sprinkler comes on, covering shoots with ice and keeping them at freezing temperature.
Although thick smoke rather than flames was likely to blame for the deaths in Friday's fire, Perrin said a sprinkler system would have "certainly" saved three people whose bodies were found some distance from the initial blast.
Fuqua said there was no sprinkler system in the building, but the home did have smoke deterctors and fire barriers.
In addition, 12 sprinkler heads have been placed in the tree's canopy to mist the foliage with water five minutes per hour to cool the tree, Roberts said.
Through the headphones comes the sound of a heartbeat, then assorted clicks, then a sound like a lawn sprinkler.
Perrin said the fire was severe because the building has no sprinkler system. It was built in 1962, before sprinklers were required.
The city had previously filed a criminal complaint against the owner of the Ben Crest rooming house for failing to install a sprinkler system; a lawyer for the owner said installation of sprinklers was to have begun next week.
The sprinkler ordinance, passed Friday by the city council, was drafted after a May fire ravaged the tallest building in Los Angeles, the 62-story First Interstate Corp. headquarters.
The hotel had smoke alarms but no sprinklers, authorities said. Under state law, sprinkler systems aren't required in hotels three stories or taller until 1991.
A sprinkler system halted the spread of the blaze, but damage was serious enough to prevent the scheduled reopening of the business.
The First Interstate building was in the process of having a sprinkler system installed.
She told radio station KOMA-AM the sprinkler will be left off Tuesday to make up for the error.
Officials did not know the cause of sprinkler system's malfunction.
Councilman Nate Holden introduced a motion Friday to require all high-rises to install sprinkler systems.
The hand that guides the sprinkler and mower rules the scoreboard.
Voice fire alarms and smoke detectors will be put in the buildings, but there will be no new sprinkler systems installed, he said.
The cost of installing sprinkler systems is high.
The 10-story Peachtree 25th building, which housed 1,200 office workers including those from six federal agencies, was built in 1962 _ 12 years before city codes required sprinkler systems in new buildings taller than eight stories, Perrin said.