The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-07
NIELSEN BUILDS
NOVEL ICE PLANT
KenOshan Erecting Artifi-
cial Ice Plant to Cost
100000 Here.
MANY NEW FEATURES

An ice plant that will manufacture
fifty tons Of absolutely pure ice every
% hours, and the only one Of its kind
in the city, is now being completed by
a company headed by J. G. Nielsen on
North West Main street just south of
Grand Avenue. The plant is now in
its stages of construction and ma
chinery is being installed with the
view of opening the plant for actual
operations by the first of June.
The Nielsen ice factory is unique in
its operation. 1t is located on site
80 by 10 feet, and will cost approx
immately 100000 when completed. 1t
has two large units Of synchronous
motors developing seventy-fve horse
power each; two air condensers, two
shell and tube condensers with ca
pacity of 100 tons each, and an ella
borate system of ammonia coils and
storage tanks and cans which give the
plant an enormous capacity for ice
manufacturing. The machinery in
stalled is of the latest type with all
of the ingenius features wodern re-
frigerating engineers have been able
to develop. The total cost of ma
chinery alone, it is estimated, will
amount to 5000. 1t is being in
stalled by the Westerlin and Campbell
company of Chicago, nationally known
refrigerating engineers.
Have Unique Features.
Several features which have been
embodied in the new plant make it one
of the most modern of its kind. The
water which is used to make the Ice
is first softened and filtered before
placed In cans which are IL by % by
5 feet, and of which there are 546 in
the tank. These cans are lowered in
TO an elaborate system Of coils-18-
600 feet of them-and ammonia is sent
through the coils which are immersed
in a solution Of brine. Each cake of
ice thus made weighs 400 pounds.
Automatic devices hoist the cakes and
transport them on huge Euclid crane
which will exert power of 1000
pounds, pull ton of ice at one pull,
to storage room which has a capac-
ity of 500 tons of ice. This room is
lined withofour inches of cork in lay
ers on the walls and six inches on the
roof in order to insure a temperature in
the room at all times. Machinery and
$500 feet of pipe will keep this room
at temperature of so degrees at all
tiTles.
Fills Need Here.
The ammonia coils will require an
initial charge of 5000 pounds of an
hydrous ammonia After the water is
frozen into ice a special machine sys-
tenn carries the tanks away from the
brine and ammonia coils into the en-
trance to the storage room. Here
each tank is immersed in hot water to
free the cake of ice from the tank and
the ice is then stored away while the
can Is re-flled and sent back again.
A scoring machine distributes the ice
from the storage room at the, rate OF
six cakes a minute and Is so construct
ed as to give absolute accuracy in cut
ting thus insuring full weight for
each cake that leaves the plant, Par
ticular pains have been taken by Mr..
Nielsen to make the entire plant as
sanitary and efficient as possible. The
entire venture fills great need that
has been felt in this city for some
time. 1t insures an ice supply for the
entire year.
The story of the rise Of j.. c. Mel
sen to his present prominence in Ke-
nosha's business world is one of hard
work and conscientious effort, coupled
with faith in the future of Kenosha.
Coming to Kenosha from Denmark In
1910, he soon established himself in
business here. Nielsen operates the
Nielsen Commercial Body works,
manufacturers of truck cabs, with a
plant on Tanck avenue. He was his
own contractor and builder for the
present ice factory.