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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 82

Cheese-Room

Cheese-Room.

Revolving Shutters.—Fix wood revolving shutters across the cheese-room where shown in drawing; these to be made of straight-grained picked kauri, perfectly free from any cross-grained or knotty wood, to be well-seasoned and glued to the page 17 best obtainable canvas, to have all the necessary rollers, sheaves, leather-straps, iron pivots, and eyes complete.

The space in the circular ceilings above these rollers to be cased square up to the line of top plate; the side casing to be hinged so as to be able to get at the spindles if required.

Fix grooved uprights close to the uprights of cheese-shelves, each division of shutter to be moveable by itself, the whole to work smooth and easy, the bottom rail of each shutter to have a 1½-inch by ¼-inch iron bar with an eye fixed thereto; also provide hooks for fixing straps when shutters are open.

Revolving Shelves.—Uprights for revolving shelves to be fixed where shown in floor-plan, and made of well-seasoned kauri. The different sizes are figured on the details. Every three shelves to be dovetailed together and to swing on a pivot as shown; to have all the necessary plates, screws, &c., complete. The uprights to be set on the sleepers immediately over a pile as shown, and fixed at the top by being mortised into tie beams. At a height of, say, 7 feet from the floor fix lintels to carry a 14-inch by 2-inch kauri plank, from which a man can work the upper revolving shelves. These planks to be placed in the passages where air-gratings are shown.

Shelves (fixed).—Shelves along the walk to be 16-inch by 1½-inch kauri timber, dressed and sufficiently supported by iron or wood brackets, say, every 4 feet 6 inches apart. This applies also to the other fixed shelves in the other parts of the building. All shelves of whatever description to be clean hand-or machine-dressed.