US1127104A

US1127104A - Ice-making machine.

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Publication number: US1127104A
Application number: US81885114A
Authority: US
Inventors: John F Souther
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1914-02-16
Filing date: 1914-02-16
Publication date: 1915-02-02
Anticipated expiration: 1932-02-02

Description

JOHN F.' SOUTHER, 0F ARLIN GTON, MIASSAGHUSETTS. I

ICE-MAIKiNGr MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 16, 1914.- Serial No.'818,851.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. SOUTHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Arlington,- in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ice-Making Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for making ice, the same being particularly adapted for use by private individuals so that they may duringthe cold season prepare sufficient ice. for their own consumption for the whole year, the ice thus'prer pared being stored in a suitably constructed ice house of suflicient size to hold a years supply.

The objectof the invention is tOPIOVldG a simple and easily operated machine for the purpose specified in which there is provided a primary receptacle or receptacles into which the water is poured and after said Water has been frozen in the primary receptacles, the icethus formed is subjected to the freezing operation for another period of time in secondary receptacles contained in the machine of this invention, said secondary receptacles being adapted to receive the ice from the primary receptacles. It has been found that .where only one receptacle or set of receptacles is provided considerable time "is required to freeze the water into a solid cakeof ice and, therefore, it is chine.

desirable to first partly freeze the water into cakes of ice and then empty the partly frozen contents of-the first receptacles into a second set of receptacles wherein the freez--= ing operation can be continued while the first set of receptacles are filled with water to obtain a partial freezing of other cakes of ice. The cakes of ice will be thus frozen solid with a great saving of time and consequent increase inthe eflicienc'y and speed of the machine.

The invention consists in the'combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a plan View of my improved ice making ma- .Fig. 2 is arear elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation'as viewed from the right of Fig. 2.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

'In the drawings, 5 and 6 are side'frames rigidly joined together. by a'base -7. In the upper. part of the machineis a series of primary receptacles 8.rigidly fastened together. The receptacles at the opposite ends of said series are provided with trunnions 9 and 10, respectively, which have'bearings in the

frames

5 and 6. The trunnion 9 is extended to receive a gear 11 which is fast thereto. Said trunnion 9 also has ahandle l2 fastened thereto whereby the' same, together with the receptacles 8, may be rotated. The gear 11 meshes into a pinion l3- rotatably mounted on a stud 14 fast to-theframe 5. The gear 13 meshes into a pinion l5, whichis loosely mounted on a trunnion 16 fast to one of the'end receptacles of a series of receptacles 17. The receptacle 17 at the opposite end of said series isalso-provided with a trunnion 18 journaled to rotate in bearings in the side frame 6.

The pinion 15 has a pawl 19 pivoted thereto whichengages a ratchet 20 fast'to the trunnion 16, whereby the'pinion l3' and gear 11 may be rotated while the receptacles 17 are held stationary.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

It will be noted that each of' the receptacles 17 is provided with two'oppositely disposed chambers 2 1- and '22 and that said receptacles are locked in position-by means of a suitable hook 23 pivotally mounted'on the side frame 5 of the machine. The receptacles 8 are also looked againstn'otation by means of a, suitable hook 24 pivoted to the end receptacle8 and engaging'a pin 25 on the side frame 5.

Beneath the receptacles 17 an inclined platform 26 is provided upon which the ice is dumped when the receptacles 17 are rotated. It will be noted that the receptacles 8 are frustu-m-shaped and that they communicate one with the other by means of the passages 27.

The general operation of the mechanism hereinbefore specifically described is as follows: Assuming the parts to be in the position illustrated in the drawings, the primary receptacles 8 are filled with water. After the water has become frozen into cakes of ice, although not frozen solid to the center, the operator unlocks the primary receptacles 8 and secondary receptacles 17 by unlocking the

hooks

23 and 24 and then rotates the primary receptacles by means of the handle 12. This rotation will cause the pinions l3 and 15 to be rotated and consequently the

trunnions

16 and 18, together with the secondary the pinion 15, a quarter rotation'of said gear 11 will cause the gear 15 to make a half rotation. When the gear 11, togetherwith the receptacles 8, has made a quarter rotation, the ice will slide out of the receptacles 8 and into the uppermost chamber 21 of the receptacle 17. The operator then hooks the receptacle 17 in position by means of the hook 523 and reverses the direction of motion of the handle 12 and the receptacles 8 to bring them back to the position illustrated in the figures iof'the drawings ready to be filled again with water for the manufacture ofanother set of cakes ofice.

During this backward rotation of the receptacles 8 the pawl 19 will slip over the teeth of the ratchet 20 without rotating the same, thus leaving the receptacles 17 station-. ary while the receptacles 8 are being moved back to their original position. \Vater is then placed in the receptacles 8 again and the freezing operation takes place, both with reference to the contents of the receptacles 8 and the contentsof thereceptacles 17. At the next partial rotation of thereceptacles 8, which is performed as hereinbefore described, the contents of said receptacles 8 will be dumped into the uppermost chamber in the receptacles 17, while the ice will be ejected from the lowermost chambers in said receptacles onto the inclined platform 26 and will slide outwardly from the machine in readiness to be taken by the operator'and placed in an ice house.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire by Letters Patent-to secureis: v

1. An ice making machine having, in combination a rotatable fruStum-shaped pri mary receptacle for ice, a secondary receptacle for ice located below said primary receptacle and adapted to receive thecontents of said primary receptacle when the latter is rotated, and mechanism adapted to simultaneously 'rotate said receptacles, whereby the contents of said secondary receptacle may be ejected therefrom and the contents of said primary receptacle received thereby.

2. An ice making machine having, in combination, a rotatable frustum-shaped primary receptacle for ice, a secondary receptacle for ice located below said primary receptacle andhaving a plurality of chambers therein, each of said chambers adapted to receive successively the'contents of said primary receptacle when the latter is rotated and mechanism adapted to simultaneously rotate said receptacles, whereby the contents of said secondary receptacle may be ejected therefrom and the contents'of said primary receptacle received thereby.

3. An ice making machine having, in combination, .a rotatable frustum-shaped primary receptacle for ice, a secondary receptacle for ice located below said primary receptacle and having a plurality of chambers therein, each of said chambers adapted to receive successively the contents of said primary receptacle when the latter is rotated and mechanism adapted to simultaneously tacle.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wit-