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No. 236,112. Patented Dec. 28,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICE EDWARD T. TIMANUS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,112, dated December 28, 1880.

Application filed September 16, 1880. (No model.)

.such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or gures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this speciication. I

My invention relates to certain improvements in refrigerators, which I will first describe and then designate in the claims.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of a refrigerator embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of same through line x w. Fig. 1.

rThe case A is composed of double walls, to be filled in between with any suitable packing material. I prefer to have the opening for the entrance and removal of articles at the top, to which a cover, B, is hinged. G are strips on which the shelves d slide.

The letters'E designate two pipes firmly secured inside and extending through the walls, and each having at its outer end a cock, f f'. The inner ends of these pipes turn upward, and each is provided with a socket, g. The receptacle H for drinking-water and the receptacle I to receive the drippings from the ice are alongside of each other, and are separated by a partition, la, the top edge of which is below the top of the walls of the receptacles. The top edge ot' the partition has a strip, n, of cork or felt, secured to it, for a purpose hereinafter explained.

The top ot' the walls of the water-receptacles has an outward flange, and a tray, P, on which the ice is to be placed, has a sunk or depressed bottom to lit snugly down within the top of the two water-receptacles, the under side of the bottom being made to rest on the top edge of the partition. An upward- 5o larin g flange, q, extends around the edges on three sides ofthe tray. Perforations forming astrainer, r, are made through the bottom of the tray in that part which comes over the drip-receptacle, so that the Water from the melting ice can run thereinto. As the icetray iits closely within the rim of the two Water-receptacles and rests on the cork or felt covered edge of the partition, it serves as a cover for the drinking-water receptacle and excludes therefrom all odor. Made in this manner, the ice being on the tray above, and the ice-drips in the receptacle adjoining, it serves to keep the drinking-water cool.

In the bottom of each receptacle a short pipe, S, is secured and depends vertically, and is adapted to enter and lit snugly Within the socketg, with its end resting on a'washer wit-hin the socket, which serves to make the connection tight. This arrangement permits the water-receptacles to rest on the two pipes E as on a bracket, and leaves a space all around the receptacles and between them and the Walls of the refrigerator, so that the Water-receptacles, with the ice on top, are isolated from contact with the sides, and the air with2 in the refrigerator may circulate all around and over the same. In addition to this advantage, the Water-receptacles may be' lifted out bodily to be cleaned, there being no screwcouplings or other troublesome connections.

A cross-bar, t, extends from side to side and keeps the icein place,while vertical strips of wood, u, above the tray keep the ice away from the walls. 4

Tubes o o extend through the space between thewalls on each side of the refrigerator and serve as ventilators.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to 'secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesl. In a refrigerator, the combination of a receptacle for drinking-water, a receptacle for the drippings of' ice placed alongside of the irst-named receptacle and separated therefrom by a partition, and a tray to hold the ice, placed as a cover over both receptacles with its bottom resting on the partition, as set forth.

2. In a refrigerator, a receptacle for drinking-water, isolated so as to leave a space on all sides, and a tray to hold ice placed on top 0f the receptacle and forming aclose-tittingcover therefor, as set forth.

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3. In a refrigerator, the combination of :i In testimony whereof l affix my signeturein movable receptacle for Witter, having zt drawpresence of two Witnesses.

off pipe depending vertically from the bottom, 1

:t stationary socket adapted to receive the de- EDWARD ll' TIMANUS' 5 pending pipe, and :t pipe haring one ond oon- Vitnesses:

neoted to the socket and lthe other to a cock GHAS. B. MANN,

outside of the refrigerator, as set forth. W. A. NUMSEN.

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