HOW THE LONDON LAW COURSE ARE COOLED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6811, 15 September 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW THE LONDON LAW COURSE ARE COOLED.

Her Majeott's Judges, who f„ ' year, must have V?, degree of asphyxiation at VVe^n l ? lljr *>» now (says the Globe) | !0 C «»» having provided, for them * Z ..which for purity and coolness"?, P ' y of about as near perfection a3 can r . hoped: for on the verge of the m the middle of London. Not ii '' *<14 lofty courts, irii. which thev sit */, are '-he the most effici,nt principil that? c -' 1^d devise; but most of. the air th ev sub] rcted to a thorough washinc/ effectua ly purge it of the smoke d other miscellaneous i U gre<H enta doners generaly are. compelled VoTnu? U ~~ by which, the air kUf.plied to all ft, courts is cooled as it passes ud i, * n ' working order, and durir. K t>, 6 1 10 faij w ather has been foua,i functions, admirably. There ar • 16 cryp-i. beneath the great centrifTi,' epgmes (each of 10-horse iwwprl 1 this work, and two refrigeratinl" Mid M e.\ch capable of producing fi. vp , g „ ms< \ ni oii day. The functions of these working and the other in water and to cool it very nearly j o * 5 ®? freezipg point. The water hith&l 1 b en drawn from a huee fan!- ,7 the quadrangle to the eLi of ther°T ■ Into, this is received a spring somewhere iu the l;" I'incoln s-inn-fields, and ; t w of probable tbat thia fcupply might and *oula have the advantage of several degrees colder than ♦». 8 1 the street mains. This WeS upeqaatt., the demand upon iTjiW daj ur two .t ha* b een necessary to ' m . the m-jnis. About IgOCt ralione [ faors 11 passed through Siddeley &' MaeWw"* refrigerator, aud reduced to akm , S etfl?r or two or three d! K re' s ah„t point. It i s then carried to the H m the basement of the imildirm" which the supply of air r n . +• & 'trough is drawn i a itseU into a spray almost fi ' , mist, As the en ire "pa 3 3 J! spray, all the air necM! l! hd } ythis it, and thence into a chaiLlif.rS 3eS ron S 1 ' perature can. be regulated [ e tem " nicety before it titmost above, issuing for the most mr.t-f • c . curt the oak pannelhng with winch fitted to a height round. Thus there ia no perceptible u th.,h.£X"u '2' ever degree of temperature the Judge may p. e fer. About CO degreeff. usual; but a Judge who finds his toU rt 1 little too warm or a little too to express a wish, and the valve near the door of his court will i n ,'1 tew moments effect the desired chance n system in every *ay' fhoron J! efficient, and this is the more satUfJ o ,!; mas-much as the same thing has, weMfev never been attempted before on the ekm scale. The water, a.fter having performed it» Functions of cooling the air, is allowed t a dram down into a cistern, from Which itis pumped up still sufficiently cold toconileus the vaporised ether by which the refrieeriting process has been effected.