. 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. 57—SECTION B B OP SMOKE HOUSE. Example of Smoke House Construction In Figures 55, 56 and 57 is illustrated the constructionof a two-story smoke house with firing pit in the entrance is from a fireproof corridor ten feet wide builtwith


. 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. 57—SECTION B B OP SMOKE HOUSE. Example of Smoke House Construction In Figures 55, 56 and 57 is illustrated the constructionof a two-story smoke house with firing pit in the entrance is from a fireproof corridor ten feet wide builtwith concrete fioors and roof. 86 SMOKE HOUSES The smoking capacity of this size house is 5400 poundsof meat in each story, when three-station trolleys are capacity could be increased to 7200 pounds by placingthe rail nine feet above the floor and using the 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


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