. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . %^ Hi >, ; it .i<<ij. ?^^T*-. :5 E .• < — 69 — surface to every seventy-live cubic feet in the drv this amount of heating surface in a dry room itwill not fail to give good results. Of course, ventila-tion is necessary, to a certain extent, and circulationis a good thing, but one can get along without thelatter, and with very little of the former. The standard type of dry- room is illustrated inFig. 18 and is made as follows: The floor is usuallycovered with galvanized iron^ mad


. The launderer. A practical treatise on the management and the operation of a steam laundry . %^ Hi >, ; it .i<<ij. ?^^T*-. :5 E .• < — 69 — surface to every seventy-live cubic feet in the drv this amount of heating surface in a dry room itwill not fail to give good results. Of course, ventila-tion is necessary, to a certain extent, and circulationis a good thing, but one can get along without thelatter, and with very little of the former. The standard type of dry- room is illustrated inFig. 18 and is made as follows: The floor is usuallycovered with galvanized iron^ made water tight, andgraded to a sewer connection, so that the room may beeasily washed out when it becomes dusty. Coveringnearly all of the surface of the floor is a coil of steamj^ipe. This coil is two or three tiers thick. At oneend there is an elevated header, into which theends of all the pipes of the upper tier are con-nected. The middle tier, if any, is connected to thepipes of the upper tier by return bends; that tier isagain connected to the lower tier in the same manner,and the ends of the lower tier of pipe are co


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