. 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 .. . the yard. Compound Lard Manufacturing Plant The equipment of the packing plant previously de-scribed includes the tanks and machinery necessary forthe refining of cotton seed oil and the manufacturing ofcompound lard. Most of this equipment is placed
. 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 .. . the yard. Compound Lard Manufacturing Plant The equipment of the packing plant previously de-scribed includes the tanks and machinery necessary forthe refining of cotton seed oil and the manufacturing ofcompound lard. Most of this equipment is placed in the edible depart-ment of the tank house, where the oil is refined and thelard is manufactured. The finished product is pumped overto the first floor of the slaughter house and there cooledand packed. Compound lard is cotton seed oil compounded witholeo, stearine or tallow, and sometimes both. The crude cotton seed oil is delivered in tank cars andweighed on the track scale in front of the tank oil is pumped from the car to the crude oil refiningkettles on the third floor, where it is mixed with causticsoda, heated and stirred by a revolving agitator. The clearoil is siphoned off and afterwards pumped through a filter-press to remove any foreign substance. The oil is thenknown as Yellow Oil, which is a refined bleachable cot-. FIG. 9—FIRST STORY FLOOR PLAN—BEEF KILLING PLANT. (SEK CHAPTER III), ?—^——T --4- bllLlilL ItLF , : m ?4^ •F _I? Ji FIG. 10—CELLAR FLOOR PLAN—BEEF KILLING PLANT.(SEE CHAPTER III).
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