Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1915 — Making Skylight Drip-Proof. [ARTICLE]

Making Skylight Drip-Proof.

A Pennsylvania wire glass company lias evolved a new type of glass that solves a problem of much importance to many manufacturing plants—that of eliminating the drip from the underside of skylights. In many of the arts, in silk and cotton mills, paper factories or chocolate works, the falling of a aingio drop causes much damage. The new glass has ah under-surf-“the jEaeh. the webs being of such form aa tt give the greatest degree of capU*

lary attraction. The result Is that even when pitched as low as ten degrees above the horizontal, all condensation is held and carried down to the gutter at the foot of each sheet.