Show F artificial notwithstanding that artificial refrigeration has so largely taken the of ice it ia often desirable even in email plants to make some ice for table and other purposes la hotel and restaurants and nothing but the poor results that have been obtained iu the past has pro vented this dono more extensively the old method was to put common filtered hydrant water into cans and freeze it into white unattractive ice useful only for cooling purposes and hardly suitable for the table distilling and purifying apparatus is found necessary to make acceptable ice by this process and the manifold duties of tho operating era ting engineer usually prevent the giving of proper anre and the various purifying ing devices with the result that tha quality of the product is quite inferior thero is now developed however a practical method of making ice in large or small quantities on the plate seq freezing outwardly from there coils excluding impurities into tho nal water circulating this water by means of a circulating pump through niters to remove air and impurities puri ties giving clean pure crystal ice from water of almost any reasonably good quality the ice is by a steam cutter which pushes its square nose down in the tank and cuts off a slab of ice whenever required A tank of this character added to aro plant is a most useful and profitable adjunct especially considering that the high quality of is chiefly a function of the method rather than the skill of operation W 0 magazine |