. Packing house and cold storage construction; a general reference work on the planning, construction and equipment of modern American meat packing plants, with special reference to the requirements of the United States government, and a complete treatise on the design of cold storage plants, including refrigeration, insulation and cost data .. . DLUIL OF QG/\T!NQ PIG. 58—DETAIL OF SMOKE HOUSE FLOOR. The ceiling and roof over the smoke house are of con-crete and the smoke flues of brick. The draft is regulatedby a sheet-iron damper, which is counterbalanced andoperated by a chain placed near t
. Packing house and cold storage construction; a general reference work on the planning, construction and equipment of modern American meat packing plants, with special reference to the requirements of the United States government, and a complete treatise on the design of cold storage plants, including refrigeration, insulation and cost data .. . DLUIL OF QG/\T!NQ PIG. 58—DETAIL OF SMOKE HOUSE FLOOR. The ceiling and roof over the smoke house are of con-crete and the smoke flues of brick. The draft is regulatedby a sheet-iron damper, which is counterbalanced andoperated by a chain placed near the door opening on thetop floor. SMOKE HOUSES 87 Steel beams support the iron grating used as a floorin the smoke house (see Fig. 58). The grating is removableand laid in three sections which can be taken out andcleaned. Another and cheaper type of floor is illustrated by-Figure 59. This is made of 14-inch wire-netting with 4 x 4-inchmesh and bound on the edges with %-inch steel rods. Incheap work the wire floor is made in one section (withoutthe edges being bound) and built into the walls with inter-mediate I-beam supports at one or two points. The construction of smoke house doors is illustratedin detail in Figure 60 and the fire pit doors in Figure 61. %BOUND. FIG. 59—DETAIL OF WIRE FLOOR IN SMOKE HOUSES. The sill for the door should be placed two inches abovethe floor, with an angle-iron curb on the outside for thedoor to close against. A small iron grating is placed in theceiling of the corridor, directly over the door openings tothe smoke house, so that the smoke, which escapes whenthe doors are opened^ can pass up to the next floor and outthrough a ventilator in the roof. The ventilating flues, shown in the brick wall near thedoor, can be built at a small cost and will assist in ventilat-ing the corridor. 88 SMOKE HOUSES
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