US142191A - Improvement in refrigerators - Google Patents

Description

A. BARDEL L.

Refrigerators.

rim 142,191.

Patented Au gust 26, 1873.

ITNITED STATES PATENT. ()FFICE.

ALFRED BARDELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN REFRIGERATORS.

Specificationforming part of Letters Patent No. 1 12,] 91, dated August 26, 1873; application filed.

August 7, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED BARDELL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerators; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which draw- 1ng-- Figure l is a central vertical section of myimproved refrigerator. Fig. 2 is a top view taken when the cover has been removed. Fig. 3 shows part of the index on the ice-reservoir.

' Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists of a refrigerator whose ice reservoir is arranged to revolve within the wall of the refrigerator, supported upon the top of said wall by means of antifriction rollers, which allow the ice-reservoir to be turned around forward or backward. From the bottom of the reservoir descends a tube, which enters a central opening made through the bottom of the refrigerator. This tube serves to discharge the water that comes from the melting ice, and to center the revolving ice-reservoir within the refrigerator, and also to support the shelves of the apparatus. The ice-reservoir has double walls at its upper part, and the space inclosed between such double walls forms an air space, whichis put in communication with the interior of the ice-reservoir by holes through the inner wall to admit the cold air, which is conducted from the said air-space down into the chamber or interior of the refrigerator by means of perforated air-tubes, which extend downward into the refrigerator and serve to support the outer edges of the shelves.

The refrigerator is in this example made circular, and has a door in its side, on opening which the revolving shelves are exposed to view. The shelves can be divided by vertical divisions, so as to form compartments for different articles, and the places of such compartments can be indicated by signs or names made on that part of the ice-reservoir which protrudes above the top of the walls of the refrigerator.

My invention enables me to lift the ice-res ervoir, with the shelves, out of the refrigerator, to allow the shelves and the interior, of the refrigerator to be cleaned with facility.

The letter A designates the body of the refrigerator, which is in this example cylindrical inform, having double walls, filled as usual -with suitable non-conducting material. It is provided with a door, B, through which access is had to the shelves of the apparatus. The body A is open at top to receive the icereservoir 0, which consists of a vessel whose bottom converges toward its center, where it terminates in a tube, D, which extends downward centrally through the refrigerator until it enters a drip-pipe, E, arranged in the bottom of the refrigerator. The tube D acts in conjunction with the drip-pipe, in which it sits, to center the ice-reservoir and the array of shelves connected with it. The tube D serves to carry off the water from the ice-reservoir, and also to support the shelves .13, which are arranged upon and around it at suitable heights or. distances apart, as shown in the drawing. The shelves are perforated to allow the air to circulate freely, and their outer edges or peripheries are supported upon vertical air-tubes Gr, which extend downward from an annular air-space, H, formed in the outer part of the ice-reservoir just below its top. The upper wall or side of the air-space H is perforated, as is indicated at h h, to allow a circulation of air between the ice-reservoir and said annular space. The ice-reservoir is closed by a cover, I, and it is provided with handles J, by means of which the reservoir and its shelves can be lifted together out of the refrigerator, when either the latter or the shelves are to be cleaned. The ice-reservoir is supported on the top of the wall of the body A of the refrigerator by means of rollers or wheels K, arranged around the exterior of the ice-reservoir in such a manner that the reservoir can be turned around upon the wheels at pleasure. The rollers or wheels K are grooved and run upon a circular rail, L, formed on the wall of the refrigerator, so as to aid in keeping the ice-reservoir in place.

In order to prevent the water of condensation which collects upon the bottom and sides of the ice-reservoir from falling upon the shelves, I surround the upper part of the tube D with a drip-cup, M, which catches such water of condensation and discharges it into the tube D through passages d in the sides of said tube.

The shelves are divided, as may be desired, into divisions or compartments for different articles, such as milk, butter, meats, &c. Names or signs corresponding to such divisions are arranged upon the exterior exposed part of the ice-reservoir within the same vertical lines, in such a manner that when the reservoir is turned so as to bring any of said names over the door of the refrigerator the corresponding compartment will be opposite the door, and consequently no time need be lost in changing the positions of the shelves after the door is opened. The shelf compartments are indicated in dotted outline in Fig. 2.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The revolving icechamber G and shelves F, connected together substantially as described, whereby the same can be removed as an entirety out of the case A, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The revolving ice-reservoir O, supporting theshelves F, and air-tubes G, in combination with each other and with the case A, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with the ice-reservoir O, of rollers or wheels K, arranged to run upon the top of the refrigerator A, substantially as described.

4. The air-space H, having openings h in its wall, so as to communicate with the interior of the ice-reservoir, and provided with perforated air-tubes G, that extend downward into the refrigerator A, substantially as described.

This specification signed by me this 30th day of July, 1873.

ALFRED BARDELL.

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, CHAS. WAHLERS.

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