US1644408A - Refrigerator ice tank - Google Patents

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V. P. WARREN REFRIGERATOR ICE TANK Filed Nov. 28, 1924 III E v I'Y J" I 4 W" a shown the same Patented'Oct. 4, 1927. r

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VIRGIL R-WAR-REN, or ATLANTA, enoias e. V

V Bari-tie.snares Ion TANK] Applicationfi1er1 1 1'ove1nber 28, 1924. Serial No; 7525 This invention relates to improvements in refrigerator ice tanks and more particularly toa specific construction and arrangement of air conducting flues which extend angul'arly through the said tank. 7

An object of the invention is to provide an improved refrigerator ice tank in which there are a plurality of inwardly slanting air conducting in the refrigeratormay pass,

flues through which hot air and while traveling through the said flues'will be refrigerated and discharged shelves in the refrigerator. I

A further object of the inventionis to provide a refrigerator ice a plurality of angled I a centrally disposed vertically exalso with tending flue which from the top to the whereby the hotair at the. refrigerator case over the top of the tank not only with air conduct ng flues but increases in diameter the extreme top of tank will be permitted to'pass down through the central flue and be refrigerated.

Other objects will appear as the description proceeds.

In the accompanying form a part of I I drawings which my application,

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of my im-' proved refrigerator ice tank;

- Fig. 2 is a sectional mewtakenthrough one end of the-refrigerator-and through the ice tank, showing more particularly the arrangement' and positioning of'the several flues in the tank.

Like characters of reference are used throughout the following specification andthe accompanying corresponding parts.

improved drawings to designate refrigerator ice tank is adapted to be used in any type of refrigerator, but for purposes of illustration I have We shelves the top to positioned but is preferably front and back from wheels 5 are mounted at the opposite sides of the refrigerator tank in any desired manner and are adapted to be supported on'and The ice tank to operate'upon the track members 6 which are supported tached to the inner walls of the refrigerator case 1.

by suitable brackets; 7 ata is further provided with a on a line with the bottomof the said tank its length.

to hold the upper end I 11 may be attached toi I tank t'so that the said I tank maybe withdrawnfrom the interior of drain passage 8 in the lower the bottom thereof. One or more:

' tinuously through out their lengths and" extend on a downward slant from the adjacent end 'of the refrigerator case to; the interior thereof; .These fiues 8 arejpositioned in pairs,jone above the other, as best illustrated in Fig. ljofthe drawings and are somewhatinearer the adjacentwalls of the front and back ofthe v tank than they are to the center thereof.

plurality of spaced angled air conducting. Q fines SWhich -are of equal diameter through- An especially important feature of con-f struction wh ch I have provided consists of I a centralair conductingfiue 9 which extends yertically from the'top to the bottom of the ice tank and is positioned centrally of the pairszof Hues 8." The central flue 9: is pro vided with-a fairly small opening at its upper end and increases in size throughout Theupper end of the flue 9 is.

positioned nearer to the adjacent end. wall 1 of the refrigerator case '1 tl airis'ythe lower. end thereof and through the said and to discharge the same air into the bottom of thecase 1 in a shelf 2. A suitable brace 10.may:be-used of the flue 9 in fixed position. "A- handle the front of the ice the case 1 upon the tracks 6.-'

The tank 4 is adapted to "be filled with salt and will be provided i. so that the drainwaterj- I crushed ice and with a" suitable drain. may pass therethrough and out through the part of thecase l directly under the said tank 4:."

In my improved construction 7 l serves to conduct. the hot 7 air from the space over the ic'e tank 4; down flue where it-is refrigerated,

V directiontoward the center thereof and underneath-the lower find that the refrigerator; case will i naturally seek the'liighe'st level and will pass down" through the air conducting flues 8 where the same will be refrigerated and dis charged along the shelves 2, while the.

warmer air immediately will pass down through and be refrigerated anddischarged under the lower shelf 2. be a continuous circulation 'of the air inthe In this manner there will' overthe ice'ta ik the vertical flue 9 3 refrigerator and the warm air will pass-cone,

p the several, 'flues to be refrigerated and will thereby keep the temperature in the refrigerator case in a re frigerated condition.

lr fanyininor changes in detail of construcl Icla-im: 7 v 7' In Combination With'a receptaclq-a track secnredto and spacedfr'om the endwall of said receptacle," a second track, means for tion Jmay i be resorted to Withont departure from the'spirit of-the invention.

supporting said second track from the top conducting flue extendingfrom the'bottoin of said container toand flush With the top thereof, a brace extending from the sides of said container to the top 01 said flue, saidv tubes being inclined to the horizontal down- WardIy from the end of said container ad- I jacen tthe end of'said receptacle, and she1vesi2 horizontally supported in said reeeptacle with their ends iH'IHIEdiZL'tQ1YibG1OWVYtheitd:

jacent ends of said tubes.

. I In testimony WhereofI aflixni'y signature. 1

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