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EARLY FORMS OF CORK INSULATION 27<br />

item in the c<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong> of high grade shoes, <strong>cork</strong> tile floors<br />

are essential to edifices and libraries, <strong>cork</strong> linoleum is so<br />

comm<strong>on</strong> in public buildings and in certain types of homes as<br />

to be classed as essential, and <strong>cork</strong>board effectively and effi-<br />

ciently prevents c<strong>on</strong>densati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> and the flow of heat through<br />

the walls and roofs of buildings. All that was needed to<br />

establish <strong>cork</strong> as the standard <str<strong>on</strong>g>insulati<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> of the world was<br />

the discovery of a practical method of utilizing <strong>cork</strong> waste<br />

-CORKBOARD INSULATION BEING APPLIED TO SAW-TOOTH<br />

ROOF CONSTRUCTION.<br />

in the form of molded slabs or boards of c<strong>on</strong>venient size,<br />

ample strength and high permanent insulating value under<br />

actual service c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s.<br />

18.—Impregnated <str<strong>on</strong>g>Cork</str<strong>on</strong>g>board.—About the year 1890 the<br />

German firm of Griinzweig & Hartmann acquired patents in<br />

Germany and in the United States for a type of <str<strong>on</strong>g>insulati<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

known as "Impregnated <str<strong>on</strong>g>Cork</str<strong>on</strong>g>board", and so<strong>on</strong> became the<br />

leaders in their own country in the manufacture of these<br />

"impregnated" <strong>cork</strong> slabs for insulating purposes, particularly

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