The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . lding pure water, freeze when put in trie brine. How large is the Brine Tank ? About fifty feet long, twenty feet wide and four feet deep. Itsets in the floor, and is covered when the cans are , holding distilled water, are set in rows across the tank,and are not allowed to rest on the bottom of the tank. Thesecans usually measure forty-four by twenty-two by eleven inchesin size. They are filled with great care, so as to exclude 352 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. bubbles of
The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . lding pure water, freeze when put in trie brine. How large is the Brine Tank ? About fifty feet long, twenty feet wide and four feet deep. Itsets in the floor, and is covered when the cans are , holding distilled water, are set in rows across the tank,and are not allowed to rest on the bottom of the tank. Thesecans usually measure forty-four by twenty-two by eleven inchesin size. They are filled with great care, so as to exclude 352 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. bubbles of air. The tank is covered up. The ammonia-pipesrun through the brine between each row of cans. The waterin the can freezes solidly in less than three days. Hoiv is the Can of Ice handled? A traveling crane lifts the can, tilts it upside down, carries itto an inclined plane, and sets it under a stream of warm Ice slides out of the warm can, and down the incline to theice-house. A restaurant-keeper can have his lobster or fishhung in the can before it is frozen, and it comes out surroundedby pure
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