VENTILATION PROBLEM.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19852, 13 February 1930, Page 4

VENTILATION PROBLEM.

AIR FOR SITTING-ROOMS. The ventilation of sitting-rooms is not always the simple matter of lowering a window and allowing it to remain open always. Unfortunately, in small rooms, the ever-open window too often moans the ever-present draught, and so we have to admit our fresh air at intervals, according to the way of the wind. But science provides us a means of ensuring pure air. The large machines whereby air is withdrawn, purified, and redistributed are a commonplace in large rnodern buildings, but it is not so generally known that the same process may be employed on a smaller scale for ordinary rooms. In this case the apparatus is concealed in a welldesigned pedestal flower bowl. It may be filled with real or artificial flowers, and through a centire opening and other small ports a continuous gentle current of purified air is passed. The air finds its way through the flowers, giving them a slight but fascinating natural movement. The air purifier is operated by electric current, of which it consumes but very little.