. 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. 103- -DETAIL OF INSULATED PARTITION—CORK WITHWOOD STUDDING. There is no contact between the beams and columnsin the two kinds of storage with the exception of oneanchor-bolt at the floor line and one in the middle of thecolumns. The partition is


. 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. 103- -DETAIL OF INSULATED PARTITION—CORK WITHWOOD STUDDING. There is no contact between the beams and columnsin the two kinds of storage with the exception of oneanchor-bolt at the floor line and one in the middle of thecolumns. The partition is erected with the same materials asdescribed with Figure 101. INSULATION 177 The partition shown in Figure 103 is built of two inchcork boards nailed between 2x4-inch studding, spaced 36inches apart and plastered on both sides with Portlandcement mortar over galvanized metal laths. The studding is first put up and nailed to the 2x3-inchsill laid on the concrete floor and to the 2x4-inch plate atthe ceiling line. The cork boards are placed lengthwise between the A TILL CLMLNT COCK, bOACDC LM LN T ,NA ^iS,;^ bOAG-D. 1FIG. 104—DETAIL OF INSULATED PARTITION—CORK AND TILE. studding and toe-nailed at each end with three-inch gal-vanized nails. ) This partition is used between cold storage rooms ofnearly equal temperature or to enclose rooms carried at50° Fahr. Where the partitions are to be used temporarily andare to be removed at some future time, the plastering shouldbe omitted and the cork boards covered on both sides withwaterproof insulating paper and finished with yellow pine 178 INSULATION or hardwood boards, painted on the back, and varnished onthe outside to keep out moisture. In Figure 104 is illustrated an insulated partition built


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