Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1944 — Page 20
{One of a Series) By MARY ANDERSON Scrinps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, June 28-—Air-conditioning for your post-war home—a magic phrase that conjures up the refreshing comfort of a mild spring day. But it's a lot more than just egooled air for hot weather relief. Air will be warmed, filtered, humidified and circulated In winter and the chilly days of spring and fall. It will be cooled, filtered, dehumidified and circulated in the summer. We'll live in a much more healthful and
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Thrilling as the prospects of coniplete air conditioning in your post-war home, if you can afford it, maybe the most exciting development in the field is a Westinghouse invention, the Precipitron, which is an adjunct to an air-conditioning or forced air heating system. Its sole purpose is to clean the air, and it’ does such a thorough job that dusting your furniture is necessary only once a week, curtains stay fresh for months and draperies need be cleaned only once a year even in sooty cities. Also it's a boon to hay fever and asthma sufferers. The Precipitron, invented by Gaylord Penney, Westinghouse engineer, cleans the air electrically, taking out 90 to 95 per cent of all dirt, oil, bacteria, pollen, smoke and grease. It removes infinitesmal particles as minute as 1-250.000th of an inch in diame-
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ter—particles which the best mechanical filters cannot catch. About 100 Westinghouse employees in Pittsburgh have Precipitrons in their homes, Because of factories there, the locality presents the toughest kind of test. Housewives with Precipitrons reP port “a thorough dusting once a week is all that is necessary to keep furniture and table tops shining; closets remain astonishingly clean; drapes require sending to cleaners only once a year, whereas we formerly had to have them cleaned three or four times, “We can hang light-colored curtains and put gay slip covers on furniture now. ‘ “At night we sleep with the windows closed and the Precipitron working. This keeps clean air circulating throughout the apartment and prevents the entrance of Pittsburgh's smoggy atmosphere. “My dry cleaning bill has been cut to one-third the usual cost of previous years. I wash my bedroom walls about every four | years.” Like a Refrigerator
The working model we saw | demonstrated at Westinghouse in | Cleveland was about the size of a 7 cubic foot refrigerator and encased in gray metal. In a home it will be installed near the forced air or air conditioning unit to utilize the duct system. By a fan, air is drawn into a compartment in which an electrostatic field has been established. Each dust particle ,is | charged positively. As the air moves further through the unit it passes between a series -of parallel plates which have alternate positive and negative charges. If you remember your elementary physics, you know that negative units attract positive ones. Like a magnet, the negative plates attract the dirt pare ticles and leave the purified air free to travel through ducts and { out into your rooms through grills | or registers. Some dirt is bound to be ! brought into the house on shoes, through open doors and windows, | so no filtering system can pre- { vent some dust in the air. Howe |
ever, as air is recirculated through | the Precipitron or brought from outdoors, it is cleaned to rare purity. Industries, such as makers of lenses for periscopes, telescopes, binoculars, where invisible dust can ruin their precision work, have solved their most difficult problem with the Precipitron.
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The first units were for single rooms, especially designed for hay fever and asthma suffering. But the $250 cost was too much. Engineers have developed the new model, which will clean the air of an eight or nine-room house, to sell for about $250. It will add | about 60 cents to $1 a month to | your electricity bill. | B. E. Begoon, manager of the
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four months after the war is over. We wish we could predict that everyone is to enjoy air condition- | ing in post-war homes, but most of us will still go to the movies to cool off on hot, humid days. We'll | continue to hang pans of water behind radiators in winter, hoping this ineffectual method will put moisture in the hot, dry air and into our dehydrated bodies.
For Low-Cost Housing
Manufacturers agree they have not licked the problem of provid- | ing air conditioning for low-cost ! housing. Their engineers are working hard toward that end, | but single-room coolers that also filter and circulate air are their | answers to date. Ductless systems for year ‘round air conditioning, naturally less ex- | pensive, are possibilities, but not | for several years. Experiments | using inexpensive chemicals to ab- | sorb moistures, thereby eliminating costly compressors; are being | made, but so far have proved | nothing, according to engineers we interviewed. | The general consensus is that central air conditioning for homes will continue to be luxury and | will be installed in few houses which cost less than $10,000. Some manufacturers think $15,000 and up the only market for immediate post-war business. Installation costs and ducts for systems are individual and expensive, as each job is custom-made.
Greater Compactness
Carrier Corp. makers of sum- | mer and winter air conditioning units, as well as single-room units which cool, filter, dehumidify and | circulate the air, predicts “greater compactness, higher efficiencies in mechanism, and some changes in physical appearance, but the same functions to be performed as a prewar models.” Typical of prices for singleroom coolers are the Philco-York | units, engineered and built by York Corp. for Philco, and intro- | duced to the public in 1939. A |! cabinet size for year-round use provides cooled, dehumidified and | filtered air for summer, and acts as a ventilator bringing in fresh, filtered air without cooling during other months. It is designed for large rooms, up to 20 by 25 feet, used normally by four to eight persons, Its pre-war price was about $460. A window sill model, performing the same functions, for a room approximately 20 by 20 feet, was about $350. A window model for smaller rooms, such as bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, was under $290, and another for rooms under 11 by 14 feet was about $150.
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Students at the George Loomis school on S. Arlington ave. in Irvington which has an enrollment of only 314 have had 100 per cent participation in bond purchases, During the 5th war loan drive they bought $8371.50 in bonds and stamps, Before the drive they bought enough bonds and stamps to pay for $21,165 worth of equipment, Mrs. Charles Lemon and Mrs. Harold Stewart headed a P.-T. A. committee that directed sales. Miss
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