. 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 .. . pounded by using an intermediate leveras illustrated in the sectional drawing. All hoistingsheaves should be fastened to heavy eye-bolts in the ceilingand the rope-sheaves suspended from 6x6-inch timbersbolted to the concrete roof slab. It is very imp
. 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 .. . pounded by using an intermediate leveras illustrated in the sectional drawing. All hoistingsheaves should be fastened to heavy eye-bolts in the ceilingand the rope-sheaves suspended from 6x6-inch timbersbolted to the concrete roof slab. It is very important thatall bolts be carefully and accurately located before the con-crete is poured, so that the hoisting sheaves will come inthe required location over the rails. The washing and dressing of the carcasses is done onmoving conveyors which are driven by an electric motor,placed on the frame-work above the killing floor. KILLING FLOORS 51 All offal is dropped to the floor through separatechutes, which are built into the floor. The detail of thepaunch and gut chutes is illustrated by Figure 34. Under-neath these chutes are placed inchned galvanized irontroughs in which the guts and paunches slide to the clean-ing tables on the offal floor. Heads and feet are droppedthrough holes in the killing floor and are cleaned andhandled OLGTIONI PIG. 34—PAUNCH AND GUT CHUTE. The killing floor is hghted on ah four sides by doublerows of windows. The upper row of windows has double,pivoted sash, which are opened by an operating devicearranged to open all the sash on one side at the same large ventilators over the bleed-rails are made to openand close as may be desired. The hatchway for the crip hoist, which is shown on theoutside of the building, is used for the hoisting of crippled 52 KILLING FLOORS cattle to the killing floor. The power is furnished by a fric-tion hoist, which is operated from the same line shaftswhich drive the cattle hoists. The section Figure 3
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