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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1931.
AIR CONDITIONING.
Theatre would radiate enough henk In on hour to raise the temperature of 480,000 lbs. of water, I degree, or sufficient to melt two tons of ice. The smaller factors to be con- sidered included the heat radiated branch by lights and brought in through
come open doors.
HOW KING'S THEATRE I8 ·
KEPT COOL
Air conditioning is a of engineering that has
only into prominence
during The air conditioning plant at the but it hns King's can be likened somewhat to recent уста,
hody, with the ons the human made auch rapid progress that modern enginebra can now machinery in the basement as, the ndjust machinery to any require-heart, and the numerous supply and mente, while fans and other cool-return ducts leading to all parts Ing devices have been relegated to of the theatre, sorving as veins and the limbo of forgotten things. arteries. That is why the air condom by a multivane fan of such a size The air circulation is produced plant Installed at the
Theatre, now that it has been that it requires a 20 h.p. motor tol adapted to local conditions, will operate it. The elaborate system maintain an even comfortable of air ducts distributes fresh air standard, whatever the tempera- Into the theatre overhead and col- lecting the foul air through open- turo is outside.
Huge Air Washer."
The King's Cinema Theatre Jsings in the floors, returns the air the first public building in Hong- to the purifer. kong to be equipped with an air conditioning plant, although the system has been installed in several
The purifying, cooling and de- Shanghai thentres, and is a feature humidifying of the air is porform of most of the big theatres Ced in an apparatus known as an air America and clsewhere. The washer and consists of a large Jardine Engineering Company fit-galvanised iron room fitted inside ted the King's with the York with spray nozzles which, when American plant supplied with a suitable quantity Shipley scheme. which practically works automatiof water under pressure, produces cally.
a finely divided spray through Many things had to be taken into which the air blows. This spray
installing the removes consideration in
all form of dirt, dust, system at the King's, where many smoke and other impurities and people are crowded into a compara-sends the air out into the theatre lively small space. The four main again with the freshness that s things were the quantity, purity, felt after a rainstorm. This air temperature and humidity of the washer also cools the air to the de air, and after various tests, ensired temperature, as the water gineers arrived at what they con-used to produce the spray is cooled sidered the most desirable degree to a low temperature. The third of temperature and humidity in-function of the air washer is de- nide the theatre. These conditions humidifying the air. The question
the "comfort of are described as
humidity is, of course, a most line," and are based on the tempera-important one in Hongkong. Lure and humidity of the inside air
Mechanical refrigeration used in
re-
in comparison with that of the out-cooling the King's Theatre, side air. The scale on which the quiries machinery sufficient to pro- King's plant works, is to maintainduce the same effect as the melting the humidity inside the theatre at of 120 tons of ice per day. This 60 per cent, and to regulate the cooling is divided between two inside on a scale a few machines, which are used separate- temperature degrees below that of the outsidely or together. depending on the
ASAHI BEER
BolaTM Agent MITSUI
BUSSAN
KAISHA
LTD.
SENER BEER HONGKONG
AHI
LAGER BEER
BEST
CUALITY
air. This ratio is as follows, the number of people inside the theatre TARDY JUROR FINED. figures in parathesis being the in-and the temperature and humidity stle temperature:--75 deg. (7)
80 (75), 86 (76), 90 (77), 95 (80) 100 (83).-
Many Considerations.
of the outside air. These machines
require 175 h.p. with an additional
50 h.p. for auxiliary equipment. ORDERED TO TURN $10 OVER Approximately 250 h.p. of electrical energy in used.
TO POOR BOX.
In order to arrive at these figures
An unusual feature of fitting When the names of six residents, the engineers had to bogin calcula-the cooling plani at the King's was summoned to serve yesterday after. tions, taking the local daily weather that one of the most difficult noon on the jury in a death enquiry reports as a guide. This establish- obstacles to be overconic was the before Mr. Schofield, at the Con- ed the expected outside, air con- securing of cooling water to con- tral Magistracy, were called, it was ditions, and then efforts were dense the refrigerant. A compres found that one of them, Mr. J. K. made to calculate the amount of sion of 200 lbs. to the square inch Bousfield, of the A.P.C., was abgunt. heat that would have to be removed was
necessary for refrigeration from the building. This consisted and this required 400 gallons of and commenced, with three of those Half-an-hour after the enquiry of two large items and mony small water a minute. enes. The first big item was the This water is not connected with present being ballotted to serve as
Bousfield mnde heat penetration through the walls the air washing but is used merely jurors, Mr. of the building, which usually in the condensors and then allowed appearance, but he had no excuse, Averages about 25 per cent. of the to run away, as it cannot be used to give when interrogated by the total refrigerating requirements, again.
Coroner, except saying that he was while the second and largest item In ordinary circumstances this ready to serve. was the amount of heat radiated water could have been procured His Worship: I am afraid you by the people in the theatre. This front Artesian wells or from cannot serve on the jury now, be- represents about 60 per
cent city supplies but in Hongkong, cause somebody else has taken your of the requirements. The average neither was available, and the only place.
sitting at person
rest radiates source was from the harbour. nough heat each hour to raise the jumping station was
After a pause, the Coroner temperature of 400 lbs. of water, erected on the Praya and six inch marked: You had better pay 1 degree Fahrenheit. This meant ains were laid across private pro- dollars into the Poor Box.
outside. people in the King'aljerty to the theatre, that 1,200
A
therefore
ten
It is
EMPRESS OF ASIA
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MANILA
at
5 P.M.
on
THURSDAY.
MAY 28th.
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