US1557180A - Receptacle charger - Google Patents

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Patented Oct. 13, 1925.

UNITED STATES gPATENT WILEY o. MELTON, or RocKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA. Y

I RECEPT-Aem: CHARGER.

Application illed July 21,

To all whom it mag/concern.' Y i,

Be it known that I, WILEY O. MELToN, a citizen of the United States, `residing in the city of Rocky Mount, in the countyi of Edgecomb, in theV State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Receptacle Charges, of which the following is al specification.-

My invention consists in a newand use? fulimprovement in receptacle chargers and is `designedmore particularly for icing refrigerators of that type in whichthe ice chamber is located over y the food chamber and at a considerable heightabove the floor level and has an ice capacity suficiently large as to require that it be charged with one or more standard size ice blocks. The ordinary method of charging these ice chambers is to provide a block and fall by which the blocks of ice are hoisted to a point opposite the doorway of the elevated ice chamber. It is then necessary for the operator to enter the ice chamber, which process is difiqcult, uncomfortable and unsanitary, in order to draw the ice blocks through the doorway into the ice chamber. This is not easy and at times extremely dangerous. In order to permit the ice block to be drawn through the doorway, the block and fall must be eased oi, the ice block being snatched in through the doorway. This often results in the block colliding with the sill of the doorway and if there be a fault in the ice block, the impact against the sill will cause the block to split, the portion outside of the doorway falling to cause serious damage.

It is to obviate this difficult and danger'- ous practice obtaining in the present method of charging ice chambers 'of large refrigerators that my inventtion is designed. My device comprises a stout but easily portable receiving platform upon which the blocks of ice may be positioned directly in front of the doorway of the ice chamber and from which they may be very easily caused to slide directly into the chamber by a pike pole or other suitable tool, the operator being relieved of the necessity of mounting to the elevation of the ice chamber'. My device is provided with novel means for easily and quickly attaching the platform to the doorway of the ice chamber and for providing a substantial and effective connection at that point adequate to sustain the excessive strain imposed by the handling l1924. serial 110.1727357.

of the heavy ice blocks. The platform is OFFICE- also Aprovided with effective supporting means to insure itsl'stability land alsowith suitable lforwarding means to facilitate the delivery of the ice blocks to the'ice chamber. In the drawing filed herewith, I have illustrated one specific embodiment of Vmy invention but it is to be distinctly understood that I do not consider myinvention limited to the detailsof construction therein shown and hereinafter described, but refer for its scopet'o the claims appended hereto. In the drawings: y, y' p l Figl isa sideelevationof' my device. Fig. 2 is a front elevation. Fig. 3 is a top' plan view. A K Fig. I is a transverse section on the `line .l1- 4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a cross section on of Figa. i y

In the form of my device illustrated in the drawing, the platform is composed of sleepers 1 and floor boards'f. The'outer end of each sleeper 1 is attached toa legf3 which is slightly inclinedwfrom the perpendicular toward the platform. The upper' end of each leg 3 is recessed on its inner face, as at 4, the recess havino a horizontal face 5 and an oblique face 6 disposed parallel with the axis of the leg 3. The end of the sleeperl 1 rests upon the face 5 orf the recess in the leg 3 and has an oblique face 7 complementary to the oblique face 6 of the recess in the leg 3. The joint of the sleeper 1 and the leg 3 is overlaid by a plate 8 which is bolted to the sleeper 1 and the leg 3. Each sleeper 1, at its end opposite to that attached to the leg 3, has a recess 9 forming a tongue 10 at the lower side of the end. I provide straps 11 overlying the floor boards 2 and above the sleepers 1. These straps 11 are bent downwardly over the floor board 2 above the junction of the sleepers 1 and the legs 3 and are extended downwardly overlying the upper ends of the legs 3. These straps 11 are fastened to the floor boards 2 and the sleepers 1 by bolts' 12 positioned adjacent the ends of the sleeprs 1 and are fastened to the legs 3 by bolts 13 passing through the legs 3 adjacent their upper ends. These straps 11 extend somewhat beyond the ends of the sleepers 1 having the recesses 9 and terminate in downwardly turned keepers 14.

I provide at the inner end of the platform a roller 15 having its trunnions 1G the une 5 5 journaled in the sleepers 1` and bloclgsl? between the sleepers 1 and straps 11. The diameter of this roller 15 and its mounting in the sleepersl; are such thatA-Yitpijojects slightly above the upper surface of the floor boards 2.

The legs 3 are provided'with tie rods 18 and may be provided Withsteps 19 to provide eeeyfaeeeee top .theplatformf .It is to be noted that the Alees i 3. are not. only de- Poeed etenieelnetion .fromjtlle verteal relative to the P' #forni ibut.. are.; .also ooovergentfrom bettom to top, :thus affording greater Stability From the. foregoing deSoript-on. of. .the structure of my-fdevio'e larndfits illustration in` the, .Clrawing," its use will bek obvious. When it is desired to supply iee to the ee chamber o the. .bleek :of 'een 1 ist. hoisted by means of the. ordinary? hooks. bleek andV fall B until its lowereebdge isaboverthe Sill S, ofthe doorwayvDefjthe ice ehamber C. My device isgthen plaoedy in position, the inner ends of' theY straps 11 passingfover and ,resting .upon thesll S 'and' the keepers 14 engaging the inner edge of @the` sill S. At the` same time,` the tongues 10 bea-r against the apron A below the sill S, Vthe feeeeSeS 9'reeeveg therein ther outwardly extending portoef'of the Sill'S: "The bleek of oe, theo' being lowered end" turned end- Wse towerd'the vdoorway Diel reeeved 11190.11 the' Platform ofmy "deiee, its nneefend resting uponthe, roller 15. The hooks' H are `then vdisengaged from the ice block I, and, by means of a pike pole or other suitableV tool, the iceblock Lis caused to slide from the platform, the roller 15 assisting, through the doorway D into the ice chamber C.

"Hav-ing described my invention, what I claim is: v

1. A receptacle charger comprising a portable platform provided with supporting means, and means for attachmenti-witliin the opening of the receptacle, comprising sillfengaging keepers and -apron-engaging tongues;

2. A receptacle 'charger comp-rising a platform, two supporting legs relatively convergent and inclined to the perpendicular relative to said platfornner-igfidly attached thereto,4 andl` tworetaining,` straps bolted to l said legsv and platform. and .provided ywithv downwardly tur-ned keepers,

3.Y AIna -receptacle-Y-chjarge-r, thel combinaf tien of two supports; -i-ecessesvin the upper ei'ids thereof.; slee-persyhaving their endsreceived in said recesses, and providebV at their opposite ends Awith recesses Y. and tongues;V 10or-boards-0n said sleepersyand straps bolted to said-s upports, sleepers land HoorA boards, andl provided vat their ,ends-with downwardly turnedlseepers.`

Intestimony whereof` 'I aiix my signature.

` MELTQN.

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