US334426A

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Publication number: US334426A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-01-19
Anticipated expiration: 1903-01-19

Description

NITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

JOHN VFRAZEE AND ANDREW .I. THOMAS, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI COMBINED COOLER AND FILTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,426, dated January 19, 1886.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

. Be it known that we, JOHN W. FRAZEE and ANDREW J. THOMAS, citizens of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Cooler and Filter, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

This invention has relation to a combined water cooler and lter; 'and it consists, substantially, in the same as constructed, and in the particular combinations of parts to be hereinafter distinctly described, and pointed out in the claims. v

The objects of our invention are to supply a cooler and lter that may be constructed at small cost, one in which comparatively few parts are employed, and one by which water or other liquid may be cleansed of its impurities in a thorough and rapid manner. These objects we attain by the device shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein is represented in vertical sectional elevation a combined cooler and lter embodying our improvements. i

The main design or result aimed at in the operation of our invention is to have the volume of water which the vessel contains destroyed of its equilibrium, and then cause it, in again seeking to establish its level or equilibrium, to pass vthrough the several ltering media arranged in the tubes, as hereinafter described, whereby it is thoroughly cleansed of all impurities. A

In the accompanying drawing, A represents an upper tank or vessel fitting in the top of a lower vessel, B. The tank A is provided with an additional or inner wall, a, the space between the two being filled with any suitable packing or non-conducting material, b, and the said tank is provided with a lid or cover, c, fitting in the top thereof, as shown. In the bottom of the tank is formed an'opening, d, around which extends a screw-threaded flange, e, to which is fitted a cap, f, having a series of perforations, g. Connecting with theopening d from beneath is the upper end of the iiltering-tube C, the same branching off to one side,

5o as shown, thence downward and upward, and

again downward and upward, the extremity thereof being fitted with a perforated cap, hv. The vertical portions of this continuons tube are connected at top and bottom by horizontal sections i j 7c, and extending downward from the two last-named sections are threaded flangesl m n, each having a removable cap. These danges communicate with the interior of the lteringtube, and the ltering material may be removed at any time by simply unscrewing the caps; and so, also, in this way may the tube be cleaned when desired. In the neck of the tube communicating with opening d we arrange a sponge, o, and we fill the hori- Zontal section of tube j with charcoal and hair felt, the charcoal extending up a short distance in the vertical section l, and the hair felt extending up in like manner into the section 2. Then in the lower extremity of the section 3 we arrange a quantity of asbestus, and beneath that in the`horizontal section k is arranged some large gravel, all as shown. In this manner the water will first enter the filtering-tube through the perforations in cap g, thence pass through the sponge and iow down and pass through the charcoal and hair felt in the lower extremity of the sections l 2, rise up in the latter section, thence down into section 3, through the hair felt and gravel at the bottom thereof, and finally upwardin section 4, and issue through the perforations in cap h, in a thoroughly filtered condition, to be drawn off at any time through the cock p. By placing a suitable quantity of ice in the tank A the water will be cooled.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a combined cooler and filter, the com- ICO ends by horizontal sections and provided at with the lower capped flanges, Z m n, all set Io its extremity with :L perforated Cap, and the forth.

lower tank, B, seid iltering-tube being pro- In testimony Whereofwe affix our signatures vided with layers of the several-named lterin presence of two witnesses. 5 in gr media, substantially as described. JOHN W. FRAZEE.

The Combination of the tanks A and B, ANDREV J. THOMAS. Constructed as described, and the ltering-tube vfitnesses: C, constructed of the vertical sections l 2 3 et, VILLIAM K. HAWKINS,

und horizontal sections vi j k, and provided GEORGE B.STONER.