US1592547A

US1592547A - Water cooler for refrigerators

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Publication number: US1592547A
Application number: US57624A
Authority: US
Inventors: Benedict F Vogt
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-09-21
Filing date: 1925-09-21
Publication date: 1926-07-13
Anticipated expiration: 1943-07-13

Description

July 13 1926. 1,592,547

B. F. voG'r WATER cooLBR FOR REFRIGERATORS Filedsept. 21, 1925v Patented July 13, 1926.

UNITED STATES arrasar BENEDICT F. VOGT. OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

WATER COGLER FOR REFRGERATORS.

Application filed September 23., 1925.

This invention relates to refrigerators and has special reference to a water cooler for refrigerators.

One object of the invention is to improve the general construction of devices of this character.

A second important object of the invention is to provide a one piece' casting peculiarly adapted to constitute a water ing element and adapte-d to be inserted in the ice compartment of refrigerator, the ice resting on top of the element.

A third object of the invention is to provide a device of this character of such ccnformation as to fit neatly in the ice coinpartment of a refrigerator while at the same time, being so arranged as to cause the water due to melting ice to flow in an established manner and drop into the drip pan of the refrigerator', none of the water dripping outside of said pan.

lWith the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and;

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device with a refrigerator shown therearound in dotted lines, the drip pan of the refrigerator being shown in full lines.

Figure 2 is a cross section through the cooling unit and drip pan and showing the flow of the water drops.

The invention is intended to fit in the bottom of an ice compartment of a refrigerator R and consists of. a dat, horizontally disposed cell 10 having a top provided with an antifclinally arranged upper surface 11 and lateral lugs 12 by means of which it is positioned in the bottom of the ice compartment over the drip pan P, Legs 13 hold the cell spaced above the drip pan and at two of the corners of the cell are positioned nipples le and 15, the nipple 14 being the inlet nipple and communicating by a pipe 16 with a receptacle 17 arranged to receive the mouth and neck of a water bottle B. The nipple 15 communicates with a discharge cock being located at, a lower level than the receptacle 1.7

cool- Serial No. 57,5241.

On the under side of the cell is provided a pair of ribs 2O having opposed anticlinal undersurfaces 21 and abrupt shoulders 22.

In use the cell is located above the drip pan and the ice placed on top of the cell. rIhe water from the melting ice flows down the slight slope of the upper surface and, clinging to the surface of the cell, creeps around the lateral edges until it strikes the shoulders. lt then flows down the shoulders, and drops into the drip pan, the surfaces 21 preventing its flow to the center. By means of this construction the collection of water between the ice and the cell is preventeeL and the ice rests at all times in close contact with the top of the cell thereby obtaining thel maximum cooling effect, while at the same time the water due to melting is retained in the drip pan and likewise adds to the cooling of the refrigerator.

Meanwhile, water from the bottle has been thoroughly cooled and may be drawn otl for drinking purposes.

There has thus been provided a simple and eflicient device of the kind described and for the purpose specied.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material spirit thereof. It is not, therefore, de sired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but is desired to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described what is claimed as new, is :m-

1. A water cool-er element for refrigerators comprising a flat cell having` its upper surface inclined downwardly towards each side from the middle and provided with drip ribs on its under side.

A water cooler element for re fig tors comprising flat cell having its surface inclined downwardly towards e c side from the middle and provided with drip ribs on its under side located parallel to the apical line of the top surface and laterallyv spaced therefrom.

3. A water cooler element for refrigerators comprising a flat cell having its upper surface inclined downwardly towards each side from the middle and provided with drip ribs on its under side located parallel to the apical line of the top surface and laterally spaced therefrom, the under surface the invention.

of the cell between said ribs being' anticlinally Larranged with respect` to the medizin line of the cell.

4. A Water cooler element` for refrigerators comprising' a flat cell having its upper Surface inclined clownwsii'dly owaide eaci Side from the iniddle und provided with drip ribs on its under side, an inlet pipe connection at one corner of tlie cell, an one let pipe connection :it n second corner of' said cell, and positioning lugs at the corners of `Said cell.

5. il water cooler element for refrigeratorS coinprising'I n Hat cell having its upper surfzlce inclined downwardly towards erich side frein the middle rnd provided with driP,1bs on yits under side located parallel to *the* apiczi'l. line of lie top surface and li'icerflllyspnced l'lierei'fronr, an inlet pipe con'rected it one corner olf the cell, :in Outlet pipe connection at a. second corner of said cell, and positioning' lugs at the corners olf Said cell.

6. A water coller element for refrigerator's comprising n Hat cell having its upper Surface inclined downwardly towarde enel"k side ifroni l'l'ie middle and provided with drip ribs on its under Side located parallel to the apical line the top surface and laterally spaced therefrom, the under snrace of the cell between said ribs beingl zrnticlinally arranged with respectl to the median line 0l' the cell, an inlet pipe connection at one corner of the cell, an ontlel; pipe connection at n, Second corner ci Said cell, and posiioning lugs ai the corners o said cell.

In testimony whereof I alli); my signeture. e :Y

BENEDICT F. VGG'.