38 BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT 



soldering benches and hand coppers, automatic sealing machines 

 may be installed. The sterilizers and shakers are conveniently 

 placed to take care of the sealed evaporated milk. The tin cans 

 for the sealing room and the box shocks for the packing room 

 are brought down from the storage room overhead on the ele- 

 vator. The labeling and packing room, equipped with the label- 

 ing- and box nailing machines, provides for considerable storage 

 of the finished product. Additional storage at a moderate and 

 uniform temperature might be provided for by a basement under 

 the packing room. A label stock room furnishes satisfactory 

 storage for the labels. 



In case the factory manufactures its own tin cans, a tinshop, 

 equipped with the necessary machinery (see list of machinery 

 and equipment) should be located in as close and convenient 

 proximity to the filling and sealing room as possible. A suitable 

 place is directly opposite the filling room with the railway track 

 separating the latter from the tinshop. The tinshop should have 

 two outside doors, opening out on the track, and its machinery 

 should be so arranged that the tin plate can be unloaded from 

 the car at one door, is moved back through the machinery and 

 appears again in the form of finished cans at the other door, 

 directly opposite the filling room and ready for the reception 

 of the condensed milk. Instead of erecting a separate building 

 for the tinshop, the latter may also be conveniently installed in 

 the second story directly over the filling room. 



Where natural gas and gas from municipal corporations is 

 not available, one or more gasoline gas generators should be 

 installed. These gas generators contain inflammable material 

 and should, therefore, be located at a reasonable distance from 

 the main building. 



The tendency in factory construction today is to do away 

 with all partitions between operating rooms, having all manu- 

 facturing and packing rooms in one large space. In this case 

 it is customary and economical to place the vacuum pan and 

 condensed milk storage tanks on an elevated platform and in- 

 stalling the hotwells, coolers, vacuum pump, milk pumps, 

 homogenizer, filling and sealing machines, sterilizers, labeling 

 and packing machines on the main floor, which also provides 



