Evening star., 1941-02-08
New Air Conditioner
Will Pump Heat
Both In and Out
New Set Of Door Chimes
Is Combined With
Electric Clock
By LAWRENCE CROLIUS.

Newest marvel in the home equip
ment field ID an air conditioner
which pumps heat both ways. In
the summer, when you want to cool
your bedroom or office, 1t is switched
on and uncomfortable heat is
pumped out of the room. In the
chilly days OF spring and fall. when
Il isn't quite cold enough to turn the
heating plant on, you merely have
10 flip q switch TO make the unit
pull in heat from outdoors.
But how can you get any heat
out OF the cold outside air?" you
may ask.
Believe 1t or not, there is always
some heat IN the air, and If you ar
range your equipment so that 1t
will reach out and get those rela-
lively few heat units they can be
used just as well as the heat in what
we would think of as warm air.
Naturally, the colder it is the fewer
units there are to be captured. and
the less heating this unit will do.
But since it is handy for use in
those times of year when only a
small amount of heat is required, 1t
has ample capacity.
When the hot days of summer
come again. another flick of switch
and the unit becomes a cooling de-
vice. This time it turns around
and absorbs heat in the room and
toSseS it out into the hot outside,
and also does away with a large
amount of the moisture which helps
to make us so unhappy and uncom-
Portable. Thus it performs double
duty and comes step closer to
that perfect machine which some
day will do all the heating and COOL
ing for the entire house.
Unit Is Compact.
This remarkable unit is compact
In size and fits under the partly
raised sash of any convenient win
dow. Its handsome. Wood-grained
cabinet will blend with almost any
scheme of decoration. and is sur
prisingly inconspicuous considering
the large amount of work it does.
AS is the case with most of the mod
ern air conditioners, the unit re-
Quires no plumbing connection for
cooling water. since it is completely
air-cooled The moisture which is
taken out of the air is also vaporized
and cast out into the open air. so
that you need not bother with the
costly installation of a drain of any
kind
According to the makers of this
machine it has a cooling capacity
equivalent to the melting of half
ton of ice every "a hours. and when
1t is doing its job of heating it will
supply $500 units of heat and up,
depending on how cold it is outside.
Either way you work it, you have an
individual control of the amount of
fresh air YOU want to bring in or
the stale air you want to rid yourself
OF by means Of handy dial control.
Clock and Door Chimes Linked.
If YOU have been an admirer of the
tuneful door chimes which have
become so popular for the gentle
announcing of front and back door
visitors You may be pleased to hear
that YOU can now get a handsome
set of these chimes combined with
an electric grandfathers clock of
the wall variety
These two pleasant conveniences
are natural bedfellows since, after
all. they both require chimes, so why
not put them all together in one
compact unit? The cabinet which
houses the clock mechanism is a fine
18th century job made of the best
mahogany and down below hang
tour tone tubes of carefully brushed
and lacquered brass.
When the all-electric self-starting
clock decides to strike on the hour
and half-hour it does so on the
deepest chime note. but if you should