Why You Should Use Siamese Connection Claps?

by Adam Fan Engineering Your Life

The Siamese connection clap certified by UL is quite common in the fire industry. The connections of the fire departments (FDC) include two twin female inlets that have been attached at a proper angle to the body of the fire equipment. This attached connection has helped in naming the equipment Siamese.

Such a connection has been extremely useful and essential in providing and supplying supplemental water to the systems consisting of sprinklers and standpipes. The fire departments in most countries use the Siamese connection when there is an outbreak of large fires and have ended up threatening and bypassing the suppression efforts that were made initially.

Siamese connections and couplings are connected with the servicing hoses in order to pump water from the fire engines in the case of emergency fire breakouts. Most firefighters have classified the Siamese connections as one of the most important tools and the number required for these have helped in guaranteeing their accessibility.

Even the distance between the Siamese connection and a building’s fire hydrant is connected to be extremely important. Buildings that use certain fire suppression systems are usually advised to have a fire hydrant that is positioned at an angle that is no closer than 30’ to the Siamese connection but it cannot be any farther than 50’.

There are several regulations and important procedures that one must follow before using the Siamese connection clapper that either contains a single clap ora double clap for channeling the water that is flowing through the system.