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Show HEATING PLANT BESTS0UR0EOF I HOMEHUMlPITi "Foplprcof Huni;j:r.:" Ca-pable Ca-pable of Evaporating 20 Gallons Water a Day. ' In seeking s nicuns to humidify bis home, Id order to promote the health und comfort of members of ills family and to prolong the service of rugs nnd furnishings which are damaged by excessively ex-cessively dry sir, the home owner finds five types of humidifiers available. Three enn be used where radiator heullug systems are Installed, nnd two In connection with warm nlr circulating circulat-ing plants. uccoiilliiK to the Holland Institute of TherinuIosy of. Holland. . Mich., which bus Just completed a study of the whole subject of humid- " ' ' ity In the- home nnd B'tntrrket strrvey." ' 1 ' of humidifying devices. I.utest smotit; the five types la ix nittal uiu to be placed on a table and connected wlth.un electric light nocbet dutlim the heating season so us io evaporate water poured Into IL Inexpensive Inex-pensive In ltielf und requiring little current, thin, urn helps to solve the ' ' . humidity problem, hut exact ttituiv as to the amount of water It will va- . porlze sre not given -.', Steam System Elaborate. Another humidifier for steam heat-Ing heat-Ing sy Kr ejus coiiHlstg of un evaporating evaporat-ing chamber attached In the basement to the heat pipe lending to an upstairs room. When sulllclenl steam Is up to evaporate the water In this chamber, a tube lending up through the floor behind the radiator carries vapor .Into the room. As air circulates about the radiator, the vapor Is caught up tild .' disseminated .ttirouli It Although this device Is more expensive to buy nnd Install than the first one described, de-scribed, It costs little for operation. Hut figures are. not available as to Its actual vaporizing capacity. , ... ; Then thtre are the, water pans used In connection with radiators. These have evolved from homemade make- -" shifts to Invisible containers built Into 't radiator cabinets of all. degrees of re- Onemcnt, often arranged so thai till- ' I Ing Is easy. These enhance the Hp- peuranee of the room as well as sup- : ply moisture. Rut authoritative engl- oeeHng tests have demonstrated that ' only when an excessive amount of water wa-ter surface Is exposed can enough wa- ; ter be evaporated by such devices to provide the required humidity. Water Pans Helpful. Warm air circulating heating plants osually have wuter pans built Into them. The heat pf the firebox con-erts con-erts the water Into steam, which Is Circulated with the warm lr to -all th rooma ot the home. Humldlicre , of thl type evaporate between imer . mud two gnllnns a day, which Is euitl---Wfefe small home. ?' ' . VT" -'Wc-3 must be Irepf Tufttfc, "ij . twitts. Oiled, or they ; ? . - This fact has causfcLI automatic device wlttisTli II paclty to keep the atmosphere IiTel! ... the largest home humidified to the proper degree a search that' has re--sulted in the tnventlon of a system by which an attachment to the plumbing pipes brings water continuously to the worm air heating plant and conveys it through the casing Into a series of three troughs In front of the firehot. There the water Is evaporated, and then (he vnpor Is carried by the circulating cir-culating warm air currents to all parts of the house. -. Like the automatic devices, a humidifier hu-midifier must be "foolproof." So any overflow that may occur drips Into the , ;, shplt, where It does no damage, but , on the contrary dampens the ashes as - -they accumulate and produces stearo . which aids combustion. . i , " Practicar tests hi ordinary home In- . " ttallstlons have shown 'that tills hu mtdifler Is Capable of evaporating si v much' as 80 gallons of water a day, end of maintaining relative humidities as high ss 6t per cent Of course, this is excessive: but the rtests Hourly Hour-ly show this humidifier' fcirtwMe ot nminfalnfns "the per renHrelutiv humidity Which 1i.'tftmr entftie rs StiJ medical' 'authorities' itgfee"" utwn as th Ideal. |