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Show A CHAPTERON HOUSES. Directions for Construction and Arrange- ment of the Contents of a Cold Storage House. A PEACTIOAL AECHITECT'S VIEWS. The Growth of the World in. Eichcs Enlarges En-larges the Necessity for Cold Storage Houses. - Cold storage buildings have an enlarged use os the country becomes riclier aa stocks of perishable goods increase. They may properly belong to a dairy, a farm, a large grocery, a meat store or for other places which suggest themselves. Cold Storage houses are nothing more or lees than largo refrigerators. They may be built very cheaply or may be very expensive expen-sive The goneral scheme of a cold storage st ructure is shown hero, and may bo carried out in a more or less elaborate way. ., i Ji 14 ifcl l." COLD STORAGE BUILD1HO ELEVATION. In this plan the store room proper, which Is below the ice, is all underneath the round, and in order to approach it one as to go down steps. Ono could walk down these steps, and then have the goods to be stored let down through the area from above. If a bank were available the storage stor-age room could be from its own floor level and the ice put in from the other side of the bank; or in case it was desirable or necessary all parts of the structure could be put above the ground. This would bring the ice higher and consequently more expensive ex-pensive to handle In the drawing the ice is shown above a room with an eight foot ceiiing. A wall runs down the center of this room which divides the cold storage apartment and helps to support the framework which carries car-ries the ice above. The lower part of the building is of brick and stone, the upper of 1 I I I, 4 COLD 6TOHACIE 1IUII.DINU PLAN. Wood. The walls are double thickness. The outside wall is filled in with mineral wool, Sawdust, chopped straw, concrete or other non-conducting material. The inside wall is a slated framework, made sufficiently strong to hold the ice and allow un air space between it and the outside wall. Thus the coldness of tho ice is allowed to effect the temperature of the room below. The ice rests on a slatod framework below. The drip may be taken in a series of troughs, Or, preferably, as shown in the drawing, by a ceiling of galvanized iron suspended beneath be-neath the woodwork above, ami which will connect with a drain which will carryall the water in a proper direction. ' There are opening in the stone wnll near the top, so that t'je cold uir may pass from the ice above inty this room below. The openings are short, and aro arranged like long, narrow fluea in the masonry. It will be noticed that thero are double doors leading into the cold storage apartment. apart-ment. One set opens out and the other set 'HI . 1 (U $ (0,d I 1 ' i COLD BTOUAUK DU1LDINU SECTION. opens in. One may stand between the two doors and then open auothor, and thus not let in a large amount of outside air. The inside of the ice apartment is 11 feet by 20 feet, and would hold about ISO tons of ice. The covering of the ice above is usually of straw. The principle of construction would apply ap-ply to a building of any size. Louis n. Gidsos. |