A-2 I E S LIGHTING HANDBOOK

AREA
FOOTCANDLES
MAINTAINED
IN SERVICE
Pressing, cloth treating (oil cloth, etc.)
Light goods 30
Medium-dark goods 50
Dark goods
100*
Coa! tipples and cleaning plants
Breaking, screening, and cleaning 10
Picking
200*
Court rooms 20
Club and lodge rooms
Lounge and reading rooms 20
Auditoriums 10
Dairy products 20
Dance halls 5
Drafting rooms
Prolonged close work, art drafting, and
designing in detail 50
Electrical equipment manufacturing
Impregnating 30
Insulating and coil winding
100*
Testing 50
Machining (see Machine shops)
Assembling (see Assembly)
Inspecting (see Inspection)
Elevators, freight and passenger 10
Engraving
200*
Explosives
Hand furnaces, boiling tanks, stationary
driers, stationary and gravity crystal-
lizers
:
5
Mechanical furnaces; generators and stills;
mechanical driers; evaporators; filtration
mechanical crystallizers 10
Tanks for cooking, extractors, percolators,
nitrators
20
Farms
Milk house
10
Fluid milk
Boilers
10
Bottle storage
10
Bottle sorting
50
Cap washers 20
Cleaning fittings and pipes
Cooling equipment 20
Filling and inspection 50
Gauges
(on facet) 30
Laboratories
50
Loading platforms 10
Meter panels (on facet) 30
Pasteurizers
20
Receiving room
20
Scales
30
Separators
20
Storage refrigerator
10
Thermometers (on facet) 30
Vats
50
Weighing room
Forge shops
10
Foundries
Charging floor, tumbling, cleaning, pour-
ing, and shaking out 10
Rough molding and core making 10
Fine molding and core making 20
Glass works
Mix and furnace rooms, pressing and Lehr,
glass-blowing machines 10
Grinding, cutting glass to size, silvering. . 30
Fine grinding and beveling 50
Etching, decorating, polishing, and in-
specting
100*'
Glove manufacturing
Pressing, knitting, sorting
Light goods 20
Medium-dark goods 50
Dark goods
100*'
Cutting, stitching, trimming, and in-
specting
Light goods 30
Medium-dark goods 100*'
AREA
FOOTCANDLES
MAINTAINED
IN SERVICE
Dark goods 200**
Hat manufacturing
Dyeing, stiffening, braiding, cleaning, and
Refining
Light 20
Medium 50
Dark 100**
Forming, sizing, pouncing, flanging,
finishing, and ironing
Light 30
Medium 50
Dark 100**
Sewing
Light 30
Medium
100**
Dark
200**
Homes
Dining room, living room, library, sun
room, entrance hall, stairways and land-
ings, bedrooms and bathrooms
General illumination 5
Supplementary illumination as follows:
Reading, casual periods 20
Reading, small type, prolonged
periods 40
Writing 20
Children's study tables 40
Sewing
Average for casual periods 20
Average for prolonged periods 40
Dark goods and fine needlework
100**
Mirrors
Dressing table, light on face 20
Bathroom, light on face 40
Game tables
Card tables 10
Ping pong 40
Kitchen
General illumination 10
Supplementary illumination for work
counter, range, and sink
40
Laundry
Supplementary illumination for ironer,
ironing board, and tubs
40
Work bench
Supplementary illumination 40
Hospitals
Corridors 5
Laboratories
General laboratory work 30
Close work 50
Lobby and reception room 20
Operating room
General 50
Operating table
Major operations
1,000**
Minor operations
200**
Private rooms and wards (supplementary
illumination) 30
Hotels
Lobby 20
Dining room 5
Kitchen 20
Guest rooms (supplementary illumina-
tion) 30
Corridors 10
Writing rooms (supplementary illumina-
tion) 30
Ice making engine and compressor room. . 10
Inspection
Medium 20
Medium fine 50
Fine 100"
Extra fine
200**
Jewelry and watch manufacturing 200**
Laundries
Washing 10