The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-13
AIR CONDITION
UNIT FOR HOME
PUT ON MARKET
Designed for Groom House
1t Will Sell for Half Cost
of Refrigerator.
By Times Special

o. tWtN special
NEW YORK. Aug. l3-Introduc-
ing TO the market the new air con-
dltlohing machine designed II con-
dltion Six-room house and sell for
only slightly more than half the
cost of an electric refrigerator. spe-
cial service Offices for operative
builders. contractors and dealers TO
explain the use of the machine were
opened last week by the American
Radiator Co. in 10 Middle Western
and Western cities.
Establishment of the Offices fol-
lowed a presentation of the new
unit, which operates with radiator
heating, in a national preview be-
fore more than 1000 housing experts
in Chicago
AS rapidly as conditions warrant
1t and the expansion of manufac-
turing facilities will permit. the
service offices will be extended to
all parts if the United States and
the new air conditioning will be
marketed nationally.
At the Chicago preview. builders.
particularly those from the Middle
West. where there is growing
volume of construction in the class
of $4,000 to $4,000 homes. which the
new machines are intended to serve,
urged immediate production to per-
nit them to expand their programs
and offer air conditioning in the
homes.
Breaks Down Resistance
This, the builders declared, was
important if they were to be assured
a means of breaking down the re-
sistance of prospective home own
ers to buying new homes because Of
the fear that the homes may become
outmoded if provision is not made
for air conditioning.
Through an ingenious arrange
ment whereby the air treatment APP
paratus and the radiator heating
equipment act in harmony but are
subject to independent control, the
previous necessity for expensive and
elaborate controls to keep the air
treatment from interfering with the
heating in winter air conditioning,
has been eliminated.
Further, this arrangement makes
it possible to deliver filtered air
into a home constantly while the
heating is varied according to the
needs of an individual room or &C
cording to outside weather condi-
tons.
Works Year Round
The new equipment cleans and
circulates air in house throughout
the eyar. For winter air condition.
ing it also humidifies the air with
a self-cleaning nozzle spray and
provision is made for refrigerating
coils to be used in cooling and de-
humidifying in summer.
In size the new unit is only slight
ly larger than an ordinary suitcase.
Hooked in at any point on the sup
ply line of a radiator heating
system, it will air condition a whole
house from that point and no
elaborate system of ducts is re-
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can be installed on the basement
ceiling and in its simplest form can
be used from there without any
ducts.
Where the construction of the
house makes it desirable, one or two
duct connections can be made to
distant points. Even in these cases
the duct work is simplified and the
size of the ducts small because the
air treatment operation is not re-
quired to carry the heat load for a
house on a day when weather con-
ditions make it necessary to main
tain difference of 70 or 80 degrees
between outdoor and indoor tenn
peratures.