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fish mouth

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fish mouth
In built-up roofing systems, an opening where one felt layer overlaps another; caused by a wrinkle at the overlapping edge.


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A fish mouth is much more complicated than our own mouth," said co-author Peter Wainwright of the University of California at Davis.
The jury was greatly taken with the simplicity, efficacy and elegance of the woven water device, but refrained from giving the fish mouths an award because of doubts about the apparently rather trite design of the park--perhaps we simply did not have enough information about the whole project.
Failures of the D-21 latch have occurred because the fish mouth expands when vertical force is applied to it, causing the striker to slip out of its grasp and the door to open.
 
 
 
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