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CORKBOARD INSULATED REFRIGERATOR 379<br />

6. Drainage.— See that the trap in the drain pipe works. If there is<br />

proper trapping, credit 2. If there is proper tubing, credit 1.<br />

7. Exterior Finish.— If exterior, including doors, has soHd surface,<br />

easily cleaned, credit 1. If finish is durable and lasting, instead of easily<br />

flaked or chipped, credit 2. If hardware is simply c<strong>on</strong>structed, durable<br />

and easily handled, credit 2.<br />

John R. Williams, M.D., carried <strong>on</strong> c<strong>on</strong>siderable research<br />

into refrigerati<strong>on</strong> in the home to obtain data for a paper to<br />

be presented before the Third Internati<strong>on</strong>al C<strong>on</strong>gress of Re-<br />

frigerating Industries. Dr. Williams obtained c<strong>on</strong>siderable<br />

interesting informati<strong>on</strong> in reference to the c<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong> and<br />

performance of household refrigerators in actual use, the<br />

room temperatures under which they operate, the box tem-<br />

peratures at which food is stored, the relative amounts of ice<br />

used, and so forth. He points out most emphatically that<br />

the weakness of most "ice boxes" is in poor <str<strong>on</strong>g>insulati<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g>, having<br />

found that very few refrigerators in comm<strong>on</strong> use have an<br />

efficiency above 25 per cent. He says<br />

Indeed the low priced boxes used in the homes of working people are<br />

probably less than 15 per cent, efficient. This means that of 100 pounds<br />

of ice put into a refrigerator, at least 80 pounds were used in neutralizing<br />

the heat which percolates through the walls. It is worthy of note that the<br />

market is flooded with these shoddy ice boxes. No less than 75 different<br />

makes were found am<strong>on</strong>g the 243 examined.<br />

The U. S. Bureau of Standards, the New York Tribune<br />

Institute, the University of Illinois, the Good Housekeeping<br />

Institute, the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Electric Light Associati<strong>on</strong>, the Armour<br />

Institute of Technology, the Geo. B. Bright Engineering Lab-<br />

.oratory, and probably many others, have performed interesting<br />

and valuable tests <strong>on</strong> ice and mechanically cooled refrigera-<br />

tors. The methods of testing have varied so widely, how-<br />

ever, that the results of <strong>on</strong>e laboratory are not safely com-<br />

parable with the results of another; and it is in the directi<strong>on</strong><br />

of standardizati<strong>on</strong> of method of testing, so as to make the<br />

results of all properly c<strong>on</strong>ducted tests readily and safely<br />

available for comparis<strong>on</strong>, that attenti<strong>on</strong> should be given.<br />

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