. 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. 85—REFRIGERATING MACHINERY ON TOP Cold Storage & Warehouse Co. utilized for the manufacturing of about 80 tons of ice perday. The total cubic contents of the building, taking theoutside measurements, is 2,775,000 cubic feet. The a
. 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. 85—REFRIGERATING MACHINERY ON TOP Cold Storage & Warehouse Co. utilized for the manufacturing of about 80 tons of ice perday. The total cubic contents of the building, taking theoutside measurements, is 2,775,000 cubic feet. The available cold storage space is approximately1,650,000 cubic feet after deducting the space taken up bythe construction, railroad tracks, vestibules and the topstory. RECENT COLD STORAGE CONSTRUCTION 147 The cost of building equipment was $425, Thetime required for the construction was 14 months. Theinsurance rate on the building is 21 cents in the south sec-tion; 22 cents in the central section and 23 cents in thenorth section. The rate for insurance on contents in thecorresponding sections is 17, 18 and 19 cents. The refrigerating machinery in this plant includes themost modern equipment in use for cold storage buildings. FIG. 86—REFRIGERATING MACHINERY ON TOP FLOOR. Merchants Cold Storage & Warehouse Co. and it may, therefore, be of interest toigive a more detaileddescription of each part of the entire system, in connectionwith the illustrations. Figures 84 to 87, inclusive. The three individual units are cross-connected at theanhydrous liquid receivers and at the ammonia pumps. Theammonia absorbers are connected so as to draw gas fromthree brine coolers or direct from three 50-ton ice-makingtanks, located outside of the building. 148 RECENT COLD STORAGE CONSTRUCTION The ammonia generators are of horizontal type withjointless steel shells, and vertical flat steam coils are ar-ranged for exhaust steam. The absorbers are of the hori-zontal tubular type with tubes arra
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