Industrial Hygiene Foundation, Digest of the Round-Table Engineering Conference on Dust Control and Industrial Ventilation (1945)

A ten-page digest of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America's first round-table Engineering Conference, held at Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh on November 15, 1945, the day before the Foundation's annual meeting, and attended by 74 plant engineers from 55 member companies. A foreword by John F. McMahon, the managing director, says it shows "the nature and scope" of the talks rather than the technical proceedings. Its six sections cover air conditioning for crane cabs, keeping dust exhaust systems clean, cold drafts, how much air an exhaust hood must draw, air sterilization and dust collectors.

What it shows

The digest is practical engineering advice on ventilation, much of it about keeping exhaust pipes from clogging with settled dust and designing systems in balance instead of having them "built" without design. It does not discuss asbestos or any disease. It shows the kind of service Raybestos-Manhattan received as a member of the Foundation (formerly the Air Hygiene Foundation of America).

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

"Digest of Discussion at Round-Table Engineering Conference on Dust Control and Industrial Ventilation." Digest summarizes discussion on exhaust systems, dust collection and air cleaning among plant engineers of IHF member companies at a conference held on 11/13/45.

Related documents

• John F. McMahon of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation to Sumner Simpson on Membership for 1946 (1945)

About this copy

This is document 05579-05588 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.