New Britain herald., 1927-05-18
PULLEN SUGGESTS
 INCREASED STAFF
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committee began its task with the idea of completing the work as soon as possible. Early in the study 1t was found that the proposed size of the addition as recommended by the common council in 1923 would be entirely inadequate. This was not interpreted as a fault of the recom- mendations made at that time but was due entirely to the rather un- expected and enormous increase in he amount of work done at the
 \battoir
 The first logical step was to em- ploy an architect, and with the ap- proval Of the common council this was done. Upon the completion of he architects plans bids were re- ceived for the construction of the building, the insulation of the re- irigerator the installation of re- srigerating machinery, track work ' and so on. The bids were reopened several times because of certain dis crepancies and other details which seemed to make it advisable to re- open bids. In the interval from the time the first bids were received until the contracts were finally awarded, the slaughter house com- mittee ot the board Of health de- voted very great amount of time 10 an intricate and detailed study Of cork insulation. tracking construc- ton. and refriserating machinery. The most perpleNing problem arose with regard to retrigerating ma rhinery. In fact. when bids Were re- ceiyed il was found that the price of the lowest bidder was less than half the price Of the highest bid der, and it must be said here that ali the bidders were entirely reput- able so their bids received ample consideration. To investigate the question of refrigerating machinery more fully the committee made sev-
 ral trips to New Haven, Bridgeport, Norwalk, Hartford, Boston, Nor wich Middietown. In this way they were able to see plants in operation which were similar in size and de- sign to the type of plant desired for lhe Municipal Abattoir There was one feature. however, which~was rather new and required special handling from refrigerating stand point The proposed refrigerator was 10 consist Of two rooms, one designated the chill room and the other the cooler. The former room was to receive cattle immediately after saughtering and serve to re- duce the temperature down to q predetermined point. namely A de- grees. This meant that this room would be at all times under an in- ordinately variable load. The second room was to receive cattle only aft CT the animal heat had been remov- ed, and consequently this second room did not have anywhere near the load. nor the variation, that the chill room was required to stand. The total irregularity of load on the chill room made it necessary to have individual control for that room. On the other hand it was im- possible to install individual control on the chill room without also put ting individual control on the cooler, since the cooler under it's very light load required much less refrigera- ton than did the chill room. The common method of regulating the operating of refrigeration machine from thermostat located in the heavy duty room did not seem feas- ible and for that reason board speci- lied that the plant must include in- dividual room control. The thorough investigation on this point convinc- ed the committee that the proper choice of machine was that manu- tactured by the Automatic Refrig- erating Company of Hartford. Un- fortunately. from financial point of view. this was the most expen- sive machine offered. Several alter natives were offered by other con- panfes but it was the final decision that from all points of view, both mechanical and structural the