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rate conveying apparatus has been installed in the plant of the 

 Brooklyn Bridge Freezing and Cold Storage Co. in New York. 22 



Here the fish are panned at a long washing and panning trough 

 on the ground floor, the pans being placed on a roller conveyer that 

 conveys them toward a pan elevator in the rear of the building. On 

 the way to the vertical hoist they pass over platform weighing scales. 

 A man stands at the scales and notes on an adding machine the 

 weight of each pan. The pans then go on the continuous vertical 

 hoist that carries 8 to 9 pans per minute to the top floor, where the 

 sharp freezers are situated. From the hoist the pans move by grav- 

 ity on another roller conveyer into the sharp-freezer room, where they 

 are placed on the shelves by hand. In an anteroom at the front of 



Fig. 10. — Conveying machinery in fish freezer. The pans of frozen fish emerge 

 from the sharp freezer (right), are passed through the glazing pot, where the 

 pans are removed from the cakes, glaze applied, and the cakes boxed and weighed. 

 The boxes pass down a spiral chute to the storage rooms below. Courtesy, 

 Brooklyn Bridge Freezing & Cold Storage Co. 



the building the fish are glazed and boxed and conveyed by a gravity 

 roller conveyer to a weighing scale, where the filled boxes are 

 weighed. The roller conveyer then takes them to an elevator that 

 carries them to the lower floors. 



A similar plant, with automatic conveying machinery, nailing ma- 

 chines, and other labor-saving devices, is the fish-freezing plant that 

 was built for the French Government on the Island of St. Pierre, 

 Miquelon. 23 



In both of these freezers the fish are handled after panning only 

 in putting them on and taking them off the shelves and in glazing 

 and boxing. 



23 For a description of this plant see Refrigerating World, vol. 56, No. 8, August, 1921. 

 New York. 



23 Refrigerating World, vol. 56, No. 1, January, 1921. New York. 



