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peaches and related items » A wet cold-storage room also would be required, 

 with the humidity betn/een 90 and 95 percent and the temperature at 32^ F., 

 for storing 3 carload equivalents. Items stored under these conditions in- 

 clude cabbage, carrots, celery, corn, and similar produce. 



Four rooms for ripening and holding bananas, at temperature ranges of 

 56 to 70'^ F. and humidity ranges of 85 to 95 percent would be needed. 

 Four carload equivalents of bananas would be stored in these rooms. The 

 temperatures maintained in the banana cutting and packing room would range 

 from 56 to 60^ F. 



Materials-Handling Methods 



In developing these layouts, it was assumed that commodities, other 

 than bananas, received by both railroad and motortruck, would be built into 

 unit loads on 40- by 48-inch wood pallets on the receiving platforms. These 

 loads then would be picked up by electric pallet transporters or forklift 

 trucks, and transported to and placed in storage. These methods require an 

 industrial forklift truck with capacity to handle a 2,000-pound load and to 

 elevate it high enough to place 1 pallet load on top of another. The same 

 equipment would be used to move the unit loads out of the storage areas to a 

 position immediately adjacent to a belt conveyor. 



A portable belt conveyor with a retractable cantilevered extension would 

 be used to move the commodities into delivery trucks. Four-wheel hand plat- 

 form truckiij having superstructures for hanging stems of fruit, would be used 

 for receiving bananas. The stems of green fruit would be hung manually from 

 ceiling hooks in the ripening rooms. The stems of ripe bananas would be 

 transported to the cutting and packing areas on tlie same equipment. 



WAtiEHOUSE FEATURES 



The warehouse would be of ste«l frame construction with exterior walls 

 of concrete masonry with a brick facing. Floors would be reinforced concrete 

 on compacted earth fill. The roof and exterior and interior walls would be 

 insulated. 



Door openings for fork-truck operations would be at least 6 feet wide 

 and T/2 feet high. The warehouse floor would be 55 inches above the top of 

 the rails on the railroad receiving side, 48 inches above the road surface on 

 the truck receiving side, and 45 inches above the road surface on the truck 

 loading side. Net clear ceiling height above the floor would be 12 feet. 



