Hose Practices (7th Edition)
Chapter 1 Definitions Test (#1)
14 questions

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1) A non-collapsible, rubberized section of hose with a steel core that connects a pump to a source of water and is used for drafting.  Also called Hard Sleeve.

2) A reinforced, rubber-covered, rubber-lined hose generally carried on a reel and used for extinguishing incipient phase and smoldering fires.

3) A sexless coupling with two hooklike lugs that slip over a ring of the opposite coupling, the rotate 90 degrees clockwise to lock.

4) A coupling made by raising and dropping a drop hammer onto a block of metal as it rests on a forging die, thus forming the metal into the desired shape.

5) Generally, any hose between the attack pumper and nozzles or any hose used to control and extinguish fire.

6) Single-jacketed, lined hose used only for cleanup and washdown around mill yards and factories.  Not for fire use.

7) A threaded swivel device on a hose or appliance made to receive a male coupling of the same thread and diameter.

8) A coupling manufacturing process in which molten metal is poured into a mold, allowed to cool, then the mold is removed from the hardened coupling.

9) A non-woven rubber hose manufactured by wrapping rubber-impregnated woven fabric around a rubber tube and encasing it in a rubber cover.

10) A male or female coupling with a spiral thread.

11) A short length of large diameter hose used to connect a pumper to a fire hydrant.  Also called Soft Suction.

12) Fire hose, usually of lighter construction, used by industrial fire brigades.

13) A specially constructed lined woven-jacket hose designed to withstand the hazards of a fire scene.

14) The threads that run lengthwise in a fabric or woven hose.