INTERIOR LIGHTING 10-135

Table 10-16. Recommended Maintained Minimum Illumination Levels

for the Fluid Milk Industry
LOCATION
Boilers
Bottle storage
Bottle sorting
Bottle washers
Cap washers
Cleaning fittings and pipes.
Cooling equipment
Filling and inspection
Gauges
Laboratories
Loading platforms
Meter panels
Pasteurizers
Receiving room
Scales
Separators
Storage refrigerator
Tanks
Thermometers
Vats
Weighing room
FOOTCANDLES
MAINTAINED
IN SERVICE*
FOOTLAMBERTS
10
10

50

20
250f
20
200$
50

30 on facet

50

10
.

30 on facet

20

20

30

20

10

5
30 on facet

50f
10
*
These footcandle values represent order of magnitude rather than exact levels of illumination.
f
See text for explanatory details.
j
Brightness of luminous area toward which the workman sights through pipe.
Bottle-Storage Rooms
In bottle-storage rooms it is necessary to pick out foreign articles, remove
caps, sort out very dirty and foreign bottles, and to sort and segregate
various types such as retail and store bottles. A minimum illumination
level of 50 footcandles should be maintained throughout sorting areas.
A uniform illumination level of 10 footcandles is recommended for the re-
maining portion of the bottle-storage room.
Bottle Washers
One of the most difficult problems in a modern dairy is to light milk
bottles as they are discharged from a bottle-washing machine so that
foreign matter, fractures, etc., are quickly and easily seen.
Method
of
operation. The complete operating cycle of a typical bottle-
washing machine lasts 6 seconds. The clean bottles stand still (up-ended)
for 1^ seconds in full view of the operator, at a distance of 40 inches. Dur-
ing this time (0.2 second per bottle) he inspects them while picking up a
load of dirty bottles. If the dirty bottles do not require his attention, he
may have a fraction of the remaining
4| seconds to inspect some of the
clean ones as they move out. General illumination of not less than 20
footcandles should be provided, supplemented with a minimum of 50 foot-
candles of well-diffused light at the loading end of the washer.