US241776A - Beer-cooler - Google Patents

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W. D. BARDEN. l

Beer Cooler.

,776. Patented May 24, 188|.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENTN OFFICE.

WILLIAM D. BARDEN, OF TRENTON, TENNESSEE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,776, dated May 24, 1881. Application filed July 31, 1880. (No model.)

lowing is a specication.

My invention relates to `that class ot' beer coolers in which the beer to be dispensed passes through a coil of pipe surrounded by ice withi in an inelosed chamber.

My said invention will be hereinafter particularly set forth, and specified in the claims.

Briefly, I place an ice-holding basket composed of a top ring, beer-conducting pipes, and a bottom chamber, within a water-cooler iuclosed within a covering-vessel, havihg an intervenin g packing of non-conductin g material, whereby cold beer may be drawn off and icewater dispensed also. yThe special means necessary to'such a resultwill be hereinafter described and claimed, andare shown inthe accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure l represents a vertical section; Fig. 2, a similar section on the line :n x of Fig. 1, and Fig.3 a perspective v'ew of the ice-basket removed.

The easin gAis preferably cylindrical in form, and incloses a covered cylinder, B, which acts as an ice-water receptacle, the bottom of `which does not touch the bottom of the case A, but is supported therein by feet. Around the cyl inder B, and between it and the case A, there is a non-conducting packing, a, of sawdust or other cheap material.

Within the cylinder ets c upon the inner side of said cylinder, and near its top, an icebasket, C, composed of an annular tube, d, and tubes e connecting therewith, and downwardly curving to `a shallow central circular receptacle or chamber, D, the top of which extends above theplane ofthe discharge-exits of the tubes e, so as to form a chamber for the cooled beer, and a reservoir for the collection and storage of the beer, and to permit of room for carbonic-acidgas collection, so that there may be a proper dischargeforce. This chamber D is pierced by the beerdischarge pipe E at the bottom, and so also the top annular tube, d, by the receiving-pipe F from the barrel. As the basketrrests upon B, l hang upon brack` the brackets c it may be removed daily for the purpose of cleaning the bottom of the water vessel or inner cylinder, B, although if clean ice be used such frequency of cleaning is um necessary.

Stay-pieces f center the inclosing-case.

At any suitable point the annular tube cl is pierced by a pipe, F, connecting with a pipecoupling, h, from the beer-barrel, and the contents of the beer-barrel are discharged into this annular tube d by force of gravity or the usual pump-power. As the basket C, hitherto described, contains the ice, the beer owsthrough the said annulus and the downwardly-curving tubes e to the receptacle D, which latter is piercedat any point bythe beer-faucet pipe E, which latter is protected an d guarded through the intervening non-conducting material by a pipe-sleeve, t',- so, also, is the connection of the beer-barrel pipe guarded by a similar pipesleeve guard, k, as shown. Inmaking these connections the pipes are screwed into threaded connections ll', and one being secured the other matches. So, also, similar connections and sleeves m m provide for the discharge of icewater from the cooler B,`and the discharge-pipe S for ice-water may be changed from the one side to the other by suitable-coupling-connections o, so as to accommodate the apparatus to the position of the counter;

The icc-basket is held near the top, so as to permit of plenty of room for ice-water.

It will be seen that a great advantage of my invention consists in the saving of ice, as fourthe water-cooler within teen pounds will last all day.

In removing the basket it is only necessary to uncouple the barrel-connecting and draft pipes.

The connections with the water-chamber are made watertight by packingfnuts o' secured from the inside of said chamber, as shown in the detail, Fig. 4.

I claim- 1. In abeer-cooler, the removable ice-basket C, composed of the annular top tube, d, the bottom reservoir-chamber, D, of less diameter than said top tube, and the tubes c, connecting and communicating with said annular top tube and bottom reservoirchamber, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

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2. In a beer-cooling apparatus, in which a Water-cooler is surrounded by a non-conduct inginclosing-case, the ice-basket composed of beer-conducting tubes suspended above the bottom of said Watercooler,substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

3. In a beer-cooler, the combination ot' the suspended basket C, constructed substantially as shown and described, with the covered oasingA, the covered Water-coolerB, and the pipes E, F, and S, the said casing being provided with non-conductin g material surrounding said cooler, and the said pipes being provided with protecting-sleeves passing through said non-oonducting material, substantially as shown and 15 described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

' WILLIAM DICKSON BARDEN. Witnesses:

J. G. WELLS, M. C. HoLMns.

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