US1191309A - Refrigerator. - Google Patents

Description

M. F. HUDSON.

REFRIGERATOR.

APPLICAHON FILED JULY 10, 1915.

1 1 91 ,309. Patented July 18, 1916.

MARION F. HUDSON, OE POPLAR BLUFF, MISSOURI.

REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1916.

Application filed July 10, 1915. Serial No. 39,072.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARION F. HUosoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Poplar Bluff, in the county of Butler and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings. v

This invention relates to an improved refrigerator and has for its primary object to provide means for maintaining the pro vision chamber of the refrigerator at a very low temperature with a minimum consumption of ice. I

The invention has for a more particular object to provide a refrigerator having'a provision compartment, the walls of which are spaced from the body walls of the refrigerator, a porous water conductor arranged upon the Walls of the provision compartment and upon which the ice is adapted to be placed, the walls of the provision compartment having openings therein, over which the water is carried by said porous conductor.

The invention hasfor a further general object to improve and simplify the construction of refrigerators and provide means for maintaining the interior of the refrigerator at a low temperature and also avoid the possibility of entrance of drainage water from the ice, to the provision compartment of the refrigerator.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a refrigerator, constructed in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention, the door thereof being open; Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3, of'

Fig. 2.

Referring in detail to the drawing, 5 designates the body of the refrigerator, which may be of any desired size and proportions. The body Walls may, if preferred,

be suitably insulated in any well known manner. The base or bottom wall 6 of the body of the refrigerator is provided in one corner with an opening, indicated at 7, to which a suitable drain pipe"8 adapted to be connected. The top of the refrigerator body is closed by means of a cover, indicated at 9 and the front Wall of the refrigerator has an openlng, to provide access to the pro v1s1on compartment hereinafter referred to and this opening is closed by means of a suitable door, as shown at 1.0.

11 designates the rear wall and 12 the side walls of the provision compartment. These walls, it will be observed, are spaced from the corresponding walls of the refrigerator body and the bottom wall 18 of this ,,prov1s1on compartment is also spaced from the bottom wall 6 of the refrigerator while the top wall 14 is disposed at a point below the upper open end of the refrigerator. The top, bottom and side walls of the provision compartment are soldered or otherwise secured upon the inner face of the front wall of the refrigerator, around the edges of the door opening therein.

In the rear wall 11 of the provision com- I partment, a plurality of obliquely inclined slots 15 are provided and narrow, outwardly projecting flanges 16 extend along the longitudinal edges of these'slots. In the side walls 12 of the provision compartment, a series of circular openings 17 are formed by punching the metal outwardly. Upon the inner faces of the side Walls 12, the spaced supporting flanges 18 are secured, upon which the trays 19 are mounted. These trays are also provided in their side and rear upstanding walls with openings 20 which are adapted to coincide with the openings in the side walls of the provision compartment and the slots of the rear wall thereof, when the trays are in position.

Upon the provision compartment within the body of the refrigerator, a sheet or cover of fabric or other porous material 21 is adapted to be arranged. This cover extends over the'top and side and rear walls of the provision compartment. Thisfabric sheet extends the entire length of the provision compartment. Metal plates 22 are hingedly mounted at their outer longitudinal edges, as indicated at 23, upon the side Supporting plates in immediate juxtapo sition to the ice. The hinged plates 22 may be readily raised to a vertical position in parallel relation to the refrigerator walls when it is desired to arrange the fabric Water conducting sheet 21 in place or remove the same. The free edges of these plates also exert a pressure upon the fabric sheet by reason of the ice block resting thereon so that an excess of water and waste thereof cannot flow downwardly over the fabric walls, but the water will seep slowly through the porous material and past the slots 15 in the walls of the provision compartment.

In the use of the refrigerator, it will be understood that the water from the melting ice is directed, by the plates 22, upon the fabric cover sheet by which it is conducted downwardly around the side and rear Walls of the provision compartment until said fabric sheet becomes thoroughly saturated. This drainage water, as it passes the slots or openings in the walls of the provision compartment, results in a thorough cooling of the air within the provision compartment, so that the provisions therein will be properly preserved. The water soaking through the cloth or fabric covering collects in the bottom of the refrigerator and finally passes off to the drain pipe 8. It will be understood that the front door of the refrigerator is opened occasionally to renew the interior air after the pad or fabric has become saturated so that the process of evaporation will continue.

From the above description, taken'in connection with the accompanying drawings, it is thought that the construction and manner of use of my improved refrigerator will be clearly understood. It will be obvious that by reason of the cooling cloth for the Walls of the provision compartment, the full refrigerating eflect of the ice is obtained and a compartment of comparatively large size may be maintained at a low temperature and for a maximum length of time, with a relatively small quantity of ice. The flanges 16, surrounding the slots in the wall of the provision compartment, effectively prevent the entrance of water to the interior of the compartment. By reason of the inclination of these slots, the Water will be properly conducted by the flanges and discharged upon the exterior surface of the tion, it is to be understood that the same is susceptible of considerable modification therein and I, therefore, reserve the privilege of resorting to all such legitimate changes as may be fairly embodied within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

mm is claimed, is

1. In a refrigerator, a body, a provision compartment having its walls spaced from the body walls of the refrigerator, the rear wall of said compartment being provided with a plurality of spaced obliquely inclined slots and flanges projecting outwardly from the longitudinal edges of each slot, a porous sheet arranged upon the top of the provision compartment and hanging loosely over the rear wall in contact with said flanges, and metal plates hinged upon the refrigerator walls and resting at their free edges upon the porous sheet which is disposed over the top of the provision compartment, said free edges of the hinged plates being pressed downwardly by an ice cake engaged thereon.

2. In a refrigerator, a body, a provision compartment having its walls spaced from the body walls of the refrigerator, a removable fabric cover arranged upon the walls of the provision compartment, and metal plates hinged along one of their longitudinal edges to the side and rear walls of the refrigerator body and resting at their other free edges upon said fabric cover.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiiX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MARION F. HUDSON.

Witnesses J. M. HAW, T. J. BROWN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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