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Description

(No Model.)

B. Z. OOLLINGS & 0. F. PIKE.

v REFRIGERATOR. No. 311,813. 7 Patented Feb.. 3, 1885.

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Urvrrnn TATlES a"rnn*r @rrictn ED\VARD Z. COLLINGS, OF CAMDEN, NE\V JERSEY, AND CHARLES Fj PIKE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

REFREGERATQR.

EJEECIPICATIOEQ forming part of LettersPatent No. 311,818, dated February 3, 1885.

Application tiled May 15, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EDWARD Z. OOLLTNGS, residing at Camden, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, and CHARLES F.

PIKE, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Re frigerators, of which the following is a speci- IO fication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of a refrigerator embodying our improvements. Fig. 2 is a broken elevation illustrating a modification, and Figs. 3 and'et are detail sections of modified forms of pans or troughs for the refrigerator.

Our invention has relation to that form of refrigerator provided with an ice-box and a series of pans or troughs for conducting the drip from the ice-box through and out of the refrigerator, and it has for its object to increase the efficiency of the drip, or cause it to produce greater refrigerant results.

Our invention accordingly consists of the combination, construction, and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents a refrigerator-box, which may be portable or stationary 0 and of any suitable construction and configuration. It is provided with a lid, a, and an ice-box, a, having a drip-outlet, a".

B B represent a series of pans of any construction in cross section. They may be of 5 uneven lengths, as shown, increasing from above downwardly, or they may all be of the same size, and are seen red in position in any suitable manner. Each pan is provided with a siphon outlet or pipe, I), which may be a 40 bent pipe, as indicated in Fig. 1, or formed as represented .in Figs. 3 and 4. The pans or troughs B may be longitudinally parallel or inclined, as shown in Fig. 4.

The operation is obvious. The drip from 5 ice-box a falls into the first pan of the series B, and accumulates therein until its level rises above and forces the air from or creates avacuum in bent pipe I), to start it siphoning.

Such drip is then siphoned from said first pan into the succeeding pan, and this, being larger than the former, detains the drip therein until additional drip is supplied thereto to start the siphonage. As soon as this takes place the drip in the second pan passes into the third pan, and so on until it finds its exit from. box A. The drip, it will be noted, is detained in each pan for a certain length of time, so that its passage or flow through box A is slow or intermittent, and the full benefit of its reduced temperature is obtained, as much as it is possible to do so, to effect the. best refrigerant results in box A.

Instead of using fixed pans and siphon outlets or pipes, as above described, the latter may be dispensed with and the pans pivoted, as indicated in Fig. 2, so that when a given quantity or volume of water accumulates therein they will tilt upon their pivotal points and empty themselves and return to their normal position by gravity or under the influence of a spring.

While we have shown and described tWO forms of pans for effecting an intermittent flow of drip through the refrigerator-box A, yet we do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves thereto, as it is obvious that the construction, arrangement of the pans, and the operation of emptying them to produce the intermittent fiow may be varied Without departing from the spirit of our invention. It 9-0 will be noticed that the drip from the ice-box is continuous as long as the latter is supplied with ice, and that the flow of the drip is intermittent through the pans B.

Instead of using drip from the ice in box a, it may be filled with or have a supply of refrigerant liquid.

What we claim is 1. A refrigerator having an ice-box providedwith a drip outlet and a series of pans or troughs communicating with one another, and providing an intermittent passage or flow for the drip, substantially as shown and described.

2. A refrigerator having an icebox with dripoutlet and a series of pans or troughs which successively receive the drip and au toinatically and intermittently discharge it, substantially as shown and described.

3-. A refrigerator having an ice box with drip-outlet and a series of communicating pans or troughs adapted to receive and detain the drip. therein and automatically and inter- I mittentlydischarge'it therefrom, substantially as shown and described.

4. A refrigerator having an ice bOX- with. drip-outlet and a series of communicating pans or troughs of gradually-increasing size, adapted to receive, detain, and automatically and intermittently discharge the drip, substantially as shown and described.

5. A refrigerator provided with a supply of refrigerant liquid or drip, and a series of communicating pans or troughs adapted to receive and detain such liquid therein and automatically and intermittently discharge it therefrom, substantially as shown and described. v 6.. The method herein described for producing the refrigerant results in refrigerators, which consists of passing an intermittent flow of refrigerant liquid through the refrigerator, substantialy as shown and described.

7. A refrigerator having an ice box with drip-outlet and a seriesof pans or troughs having siphon outlets which intermittently draw the water from the pans, substantially as shown and described.

8. A refrigerator having iceboX a, dripoutlet a", and pans B, of different sizes, and

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