Show COMBINED ICE HOUS E AND refrigerator I 1 WV 54 vt 4 R fla I 1 longitudinal section of a combined lea ice house and dairy prepared by the U S depar department ament of agriculture even where for convenience and economy it Is desirable to have the dairy under tho the same root roof as the ice fee house it Is not satisfactory to attempt to combine tho the ice storage with a cold store when it Is necessary to use ico ice tor for chilling milk and other dairy products it la IS bettor better to remove tile the ice from the ice house or compartment and place it in a specially constructed lee ice box or refrigerator rather than to attempt to maintain a cold room by stor ing ng the ice about and in contact with it the chief argument against the combined arrangement Is that it prevents the storage of lee ice in a solid mass As a result the waste Is much greater again the requirements of the storage room and the refrigerator vary from time to time advantage con can be taken of these fluctuations to husband tho the lee ice supply when the two ire separate there are decided ad fig 2 vae I 1 I 1 I 1 fig Z 2 transverse section of a com bened ice house and dairy vantages in having the ice supply I 1 convenient to the dairy house bouse or refrigerator friger ator but it la Is poor economy to build the refrigerator or cold store inside the ice storage the arrangement suggested in figures 1 and 2 Is to be preferred where an abundant supply of natural ice can be harvested annually it will be a simple matter to maintain high class refrigeration by installing a brine circulating system the principle on which this patented system works Is the same as mechanical refrigeration except that the cold ts Is secured through a freezing mixture of ice fee ani and salt in a tank in which the primary coll sare located as shown at D B in figure 3 As the brine in these colla coils becomes chilled it passes out oui through the bottom of the colls coils and slowly flows through the tha colls coils marked C which are located in the cooling room the heat of this room to Is absorbed by these chilled pipes and as the brine warms up it passes out and tip ap into the primary colls coils and in this way a continuous circulation la Is maintained between the two pipe systems for convenience the lee ice house can be mado made a part of the structure thre so BO that the lee ice can be elevated above the storage chamber and directly into theo crusher which can be located in the attic above the primary colls coils indicated at D B As the drawing shows tho the space above the cooling room might be utilized as a farm shop or for a coop cooperage emge it one vero to ba installed in connection with an ah apple orchard it would not be advisable to io attempt to install astall this system without h riving having an experienced migi engineer calculate tho the piping necessary for a any ny given storage room as an well as the cooling tank the question of installation Is also a very important one and should be carefully specified this construction Is adapted to small email or to very extensive plants the department ot of agriculture used this in a plant which has been in failed called at ahn arlington experiment a farm the cooling room in this case la Is 28 by 30 feet with eight foot cell ings space beaco Is thereby pro bided vided to store barrels of apples detailed information regarding tha th storage of butter and cheese may inay bo be had by those interested in two bulletins of the united states department of agriculture bulletin 83 bureau 0 og animal industry gives information on chee cheese seand and bulletin 84 bureau of ant aali mal industry on butter these lots lets will be sent free of charge as aa long as the supply lasts after which they may bo be purchased for a small arico of the superintendent of documents 1 3 I 1 7 i i 1 1 fig 3 1 E shop T i co boue c 3 sea ak aames ai n si s ta a ia i arito iaci as storage room 4 allf LJJ n i ff T 1 i n fig 3 diagram showing a combined ice house and cold storage plant |