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Wired Glass

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
March
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

As the result of a thorough investigation of the heat resisting qualities of wired glass instituted by the Philadelphia Fire Underwriters' association the latter has made a report which must be very serviceable to all interested in this uirique product. The report declares that such glass can be safely used in skylights and in such situations will Btand a severe fire and not give way when water is thrown on it. A wooden framing for skylight, covered with tin, all seams lock jointed and with nails hiddeu, is superior in fire resisting quality to iron framing. Wired glass in wooden sash, covered with tin, all seams lock jointed and nails concealed, can safely be used for windows toward an externa! exposure and in fire doors to elevator shafts and stairway towers, where it is necessary to light the shafts; in office buildings, hotels, etc, where it is undesirable to have elevator shafts entirely inclosed and dark, wired glass permanently built into a brick or terra cotta shaft, or arranged in a metal covered wood frame, can safely be used, and, again, wired glass plates, securely fastened in standard fire shutters, can safely be used toward an external exposure - in this case, the fact that a possible fire in a building all the windows of which are protected by fire sh" ' can. mi more ï'eadily be detected from the side th'rough the wired glass is irnp tant. -

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News