Gas fitting

The busine of a gas-fitter. The term gas-fittings is applied to the different contrivances for the application of gas-lighting, consisting of pipes, services, meters, burners, . Pipes laid in the ground are of cast-iron, and those through the building generally of wrought-iron, sometimes of lead; they should incline toward the meter, so as to allow the condensed moisture to flow back into it. If this inclination is not uniform, or is interrupted, an arrangement called a drip must be introduced to remove the water. Gas'-fixture, n. One of the ornamental fittings or appendages at the extremity of the pipes which conduct gas from the meter to the different apartments of a building; a bracket, or chandelier for gas, including a stop-cock and burner.