US322992A

US322992A - Samuel a

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Publication number: US322992A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-07-28
Anticipated expiration: 1902-07-28

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I SIPHON FOR ICE BOXES AND REPRIGERATORS. N0. 322,992. Patented July 28, 1885.

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SAMUEL A. SUYDAM,

NIT-ED STATES ATENT FFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,992, dated July 28, 1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. SUYDAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at 550 Hudson street, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Siphon for Ice-Boxes and Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in detachable siphons; and the object of my improvement is to provide a siphon that shall cause the sediment and dirt to settle without choking either the siphon or the pipes, and that shall be easily removable to clean it out, as occasion may require, and to enable the pipes to be cleaned out. I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a view of an ice-box with my improved siphon in place. Fig. 2 is a see tional View of the siphon removed from the ice-box and the pipes, and Fig. 3 is amoditied form of the siphon.

Similarletters refer to similar parts th rou ghout the several views.

A is a pipe passing from the ice-chamberB to the interior of the ice-box, and to which the siphon is attached, and -O is a pipe leading from the siphon to the pan D below; and it is obvious that when the siphon is removed both A and 0 may be more readily clean-ed than would be the caseif there were one continuous pipe passing from the ice-chamber to the bottom of the ice-box, the siphon being placed under the bottom of the box, as is commonly the case. I

The siphon consists of the legs E and F,with the crosspiece G between them.

The opening between E and G is not equal to the full cross-sectional area of G, as is commonly the case, but is at the lower end only, being shown at e. Similarly, the opening between F is not equal to the full area of either F or G, because F projects on one side unto G, as shown at f. Furthermore, the leg E passes down below its junction with G, leaving a certain length of pipe in which the sediment and dust may accumulate and be subsequently extracted by removing the cork H. Vhatever sediment may, however, find its way into the branch G will be induced to settle by the projection f, which will arrest the flow of water through the lower half'ol G, and this sediment will have a tendency to slide down the branch G and into the leg E. y

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the opening between E and G is at the top of their point of junction, and it is obvious that the dirt and sediment could accumulate up to the combination with the opening 6 and the pro- 7o jection f, the siphon being detachable, to enable it to be cleaned and to facilitate the cleaning of the pipes in the icebox, substantially as set forth.

SAMUEL A. SUYDAM. Witnesses:

J OSHUA Rosn. F. H. CARLOUGH.