The consumer viewpoint : $b covering vital phases of manufacturing and selling household devicesBentley, Mildred Maddocks
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The consumer viewpoint : $b covering vital phases of manufacturing and selling household devices
Bentley, Mildred Maddocks
Home economics -- Equipment and supplies
Where the forearm muscle is involved, however, it becomes a far more
delicate question. The distance between work-table top and elbow must
be the control on designing. For that reason it is not possible to
establish a constant and ideal height for kitchen cabinets and working
table surfaces, although in general most of these have been from one to
two inches too low. "Adjustable in height" seems to be the only answer
to this phase of the problem. Some one, sometime, will undoubtedly
design a well made table (we have already seen one of poor
construction) that will have strong, as well as adjustable leg support.
Some one, sometime, will build a good refrigerator (as we have seen a
poor one) constructed with the sanitary, high leg-base of the present
day office desk. It will obviate stooping and it will enable one to get
the refrigerator pan without groping provided there can be no drain. It
will further allow for a refrigerator pan large enough to prevent the
common accident of overflowing. Again, sometime, we believe the
manufacturer of kitchen cabinets will see a picture of kitchens built
with four, straight, clean walls and completely equipped with the
pantry on one wall, consisting of kitchen cabinet and side units for
storage cabinets, each one of these side cabinets to be only fourteen
inches deep.
The time will come--it is almost here--when the demand from women for
the high sink we have already indicated is going to be strong enough so
that the Plumber's standards for cutting pipe will be changed to meet
her demand. It is difficult to realize, but it is nevertheless true,
that every woman who wishes a properly placed sink in her kitchen or
pantry has to overcome the inertia of the plumber not only because of
his conservative unwillingness to do this unusual task, but because he
is put to the extra expense and trouble of getting "specials" in pipe
length, due to the fact that the plumbing trade, as yet, has not
recognized an at least partially developed consumer demand.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Consumer Viewpoint, by Mildred Maddocks
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