US1468126A

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Publication number: US1468126A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1923-09-18
Anticipated expiration: 1940-09-18

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ATTORNEY R 9 m l E, EG M NF r O EM d WW6 1 B F 4 k 1 .1 Rag l, rl 7 a 43 aw wafi'ogj lpihilelnted Sept. is, rare.

UNITED STATES WALTER OINIEEL, 0E SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA.

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Ainplioation filed. March 7, was. serial 1%. 623,313.

T 0 all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that l, VVALTER ONnnL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shelbyville, in the county of Shelby and State of lndiana, have invented a new and useful Bottle Refrigerator, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvement in refrigerators, and particularly to refrigerators for cooling bottles containing beverages and the like.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a beverage bottle refrigerator which may be so constructed as to permit ready removal of the cooled bottles therefrom without opening the ice chamber of the refrigerator to the atmosphere each time a bottle is removed from the refrigerator.

Another object of m invention is to rov-ide a beverage bottlb refrigerator 'rom which the bottles may be removed without the necessity of the dispenser feeling around through a large mass olice to find a bottle of the particular bevera desired.

l or the purpose of disclosing my invention. l have illustrated one embodiment thereof in the accornpanying drawings, in which,

Fig. i is a perspective view of a refrigorator embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the refrigerator shown in Fig. l

Fig. 3 is a sectional view talren on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. l is a detail perspective of the bottle removing clip, and

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of a modified :lorm of my refrigerator.

the structure illustrated, the container 1 is provided with "a bottle chamber 2 having a rear cover 3 and a front cover 1- provided with suitable openings 5 through which the bottles may be inserted in the" chamber and through which the bottles may be'removed from the chamber. 'lhese openings are closely adjacent the two ends of the chamber and the openings-are maintained closed by suitable closure caps ll.

Above the bottle chamber there is provided an ice chamber 7, the open bottom of which terminates in the bottle chambenthe front and rear walls of the ice chamber being provided with downwardly extending lips 8 and 9 which form, in effect, a continuation of the front and rear walls of the ice chamher and project below the under side or the

top walls

3 and 4, ol the bottle container.

Arranged within the ice chamber 7 is an ice basket 10 which may be supported therein in any suitable manner, as by having the top side rods 11 embedded at each end in the side walls of the container. Access may be had to the ice chamber 7 through a top opening 12 which is arrangedto be sealed by a cap 13 screw-threaded into the walls of the opening 12 so that, when the cap is in position, the top of the ice chamber is sealed t s under side or the top or closure portions 3 and d.

'lhe bottom in oil the bottle chamber is preferably inclined toward the front, or delivery end oi the chamber and the chamber is provided with suitable bottle guides ll preferably in the storm rods having their front and rear ends embedded in the front and rear walls of the chamber. gnideways :lor the bottles -formed by these guides l? are beneath and coincide with the openings-5 so that the bc'- ties are deposited in the receiving op they will drop into a guide-way and, e to the inclined bottom 16, the bottles be fed by gravity to a point the openings at the front end or the rel? orator. bottles are ad ted to a raised platforms 18 on l their bottoms will be clear or the hot I the container. in order to assist gravity feeding the bottles forward, each snideway is provided with a weighted rol adapted to be placed behind last o row or bottles, and roller is preferably connected to the rear wall of the bottle chamber by a chain or cable 2Q so that roller may be retracted.

For lilting the bottles out or the chamber, l re'l'erably provide a bottle clip 21 at the ront end of each gnidewayj, which is provided with a 'lorlr 22 arranged to engage the neclr of the bottle beneath top bead thereof and the handle 23 orthe i keep for a comparatively long period. Due

to the fact that thelip 9 projects below the end of the vent pipe 14 the water level may be maintained in what may be termed the delivery well of thebottle chamber, well above the top of the bottle so thatall the bottles in the bottle chamber will be well submerged; in the liquid. Due to the fact that heated liquid tends to rise, as the cooling 1i uid' becomes slightly" heated, when the c osure members 6 are opened to extract a bottle,'there is a thermo-syphon circulating eilect caused in the bottle and ice chamber so that the heated liquid will tend to rise to come in contact with the ice and be immediately chilled, and the bottles will" be submerged in the coolest liquid at all times.

ll claim as my invention:

1. A bottle refrigerator, having a bottle chamber provided with a delivery opening therein and adapted to contain cooling liquid and an air tight ice chamber adja cent said bottle chamber and communicating therewith,.said ice chamber being adapted to be closed to the atmosphere by a supply of liquid in said bottle chamber.

*2. A bottle refrigerator, including a bottle chamber arranged to contain cooling liquid, and having a delivery opening therein, an ice chambercommunicating with said bottle chamber and adapted to receive liquid from said bottle chamber, said ice chamber being closed to the atmosphere by the liquid in said bottle chamber, and means for feeding the bottles in said bottle chamber toward the delivery opening therein.

A bottle refrigerator, having a bottle chamber provided With a delivery opening, and an ice chamber having its bottom opening into said bottle chamber, said chambers being arranged to contain a liquid-cooling medium which seals the bottom of the ice chamber to the atmosphere. t. A bottle refrigerator including a bottle chamber having an inclined bottom for receiving the bottles and provided with a top opening at the deepest end of said chamber, and an ice chamber above said bottle chamber and having its bottom opening into said bottle chamber and adapted to be sealed to the atmosphere by the cool liquid contained in said bottle chamber, and an ice receptacle arranged in said ice chamber.

5. A bottle refrigerator, including a bot-r tle chamber having a delivery openlng therein and having adjacentsaid opening a bottle well, means for delivering a bottle into said well when a bottle has been removed therefrom, and an ice chamber arranged above saidbottle chamber and having its bottom opening into the bottle chain.-

ber, said ice chamber and bottle chamber arranged to receive a cooling liquid and said ice chamber being sealed to the atmos phere by said cooling liquid.

In 'witness whereof, I, WALTER ONEEL, have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 5th day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

WALTER ONEEL.