. 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 .. . FIG. 102—DETAIL, OF INSULATION PASSING THROUGH FLOOR. as fifteen feet and require no additional bracing. They takeup less room thanr any other type of construction and aremore nearly fireproof than partitions erected with woodstudding. The metal lath
. 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 .. . FIG. 102—DETAIL, OF INSULATION PASSING THROUGH FLOOR. as fifteen feet and require no additional bracing. They takeup less room thanr any other type of construction and aremore nearly fireproof than partitions erected with woodstudding. The metal lath may be omitted to reduce thecost of construction, but should be used in all first-classwork. 176 INSULATION In Figure 102 is illustrated a solid cork partition usedbetween the freezer and the cold storage rooms. This partition is continuous from one end of the roomto the other and is continued up through the floor from thestory below. The columns and floor beams have beensplit in two to allow the partition to pass FIG. 103- -DETAIL OF INSULATED PARTITION—CORK WITHWOOD STUDDING. There is no contact between the beams and columnsin the two kinds of storage with the exception of oneanchor-bolt at the floor line and one in the middle of thecolumns. The partition is erected with the same materials asdescribed with Figure 101. INSULATION 177 The partition shown in Figure 103 is built of two inchcork boards nailed between 2x4-inch studding, spaced 36inches apart and plastered on both sides with Portlandcement mortar over galvanized metal laths. The studding is first put up and nailed to the 2x3-inchsill laid on the concrete floor and to the 2x4-inch plate atthe ceiling line. The cork boards are placed lengthwise between the A TILL CLMLNT COCK, bOACDC LM LN T ,NA ^iS,;^ bOAG-D
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