US395331A - Bar and beer-cooler - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. F. KAUSLER.

BAR AND BEER COOLER.

Patented Jan. l, 1889.,

Plmo-umagrwher. washington. DY l;

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

JOI-IN FREDERICK KAIISIJER, 0F SIIEHYGAN, XVISCONSIN.

BAR AND BEER-COOLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,331, dated January 1, 1889.

Application filed June 2, 1888. Serial No. 275,896. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Bc it known that l, JOHN 'FREDERICK Kaus* LER, of Sheboygan, in the county oi Sheboy- `:gan and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful .Bar and Beer-Cooler; and I do hereby declare the 'following' to be a t'ull, clear, and exact description of said invention, reference being' had to the accompanying' drawings, and to the letters or figures ol reterence marked thereon, which vform a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a portable combined bar and beer-cooler with shelves for glasses and decanters, and a sink or pan for cleansing the glasses.

In the drawings,Figure l is aview from the rear of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the central portion of my improved device on line Y Y of Fig'. 3. Fig. is a vertical transverse section ot' my improved device on line X X of Fig'. l. Fig'. 4 is a plan ot' the central part of my device.

The same letters refer to like parts in all the views.

My device has a trent vertical wall, A, which on its outside is intended to be toward the room or to that side of the bar at which customers approach, and may on its outside be ornamented as desired. The end wal ls, B ll l, are joined rigidly and air-tight to the front wall, A, and are ot' the same height as the front wall, and these three walls are supported and made air-tight onv the bottom (l. The top D is hinged to the top of the wall A, and is intended to be supported on the front and end walls in a level position, and adapted, when so supptn'ted and arranged, :for the top or table ot' the bar, and is at the same time a cover, closing' the, top of the beer-cooler and coverin the chambers or recel'nacles For the glasses.

The lower portion ot' the inside of this device, Aincluded within the front and side walls, A and B B, is divided into three compartments by the two grated or perforated partitions E E, whereby two end chambers, F F, are constructed, intended and adapted as receptz'icles for kegs or casks ot` beer, (indicated therein by dotted lines, as-G (la) and a central chamber, Il, intended and adapted for an ice-boX. These chambers F F and H are severally closed by the doors I I I. Phe chambers F F also have covers K K, which on their upper surfaces are intended and adapted as and for shelves for supporting' glasses, deeanters, bottles, &c., and in use it is very convenient to use one of these shelves for supporting' limer-glasses and the other one for supporting' glasses, decanters, and bottles tor other grades of liquors. Each of these shelves o1.' covers K K is provided with a pan or sink, L, let down into it flush with its upper surface, which pan or sink is intended and adapted for holding water for washing the drinkingglasses therein. The chamber H is provided with a tight cover, M, adapted to serve in part lfor a shelf on which glasses are supported while being' filled with beer, and also in part as the bottom of a separate receptacle or beercooler, N.

The beer-cooler N is constructed above the ice-receptacle l-I by the end walls, O O, which extend .from the cover ot the ice-receptacle H upwardly to the top ot' the wall A, to which these partitions O O are joined by an air-tight joint, and the rear wall, I,i11se1'ted vertically between the end walls, O O, about half-way from t'ront to rear of the cover M of the icereceptacle ll. A pipe, R, is inserted at one end in the keg' G an d leads up into the beercooler N, where it is coiled, as at R, in. the bottom of the beer-cooler N, the other end extending' to and terminating' in a faucet, S, projecting,l throug'li the rear wall, l), of the ice-cooler. This beer cooler or chamber N is also adapted for receiving' ice therein on the coils of pipe, whereby the beer in the pipe will be kept cold for immediate use.

The bottom, f'ront, and endsot so much ol' my devici as is oceupiedby the chambers F F and receptacle ll. are made double by the interior sheet-metal wall, 'l., preferably made ot' galvanized iron and preferablylined with the wooden boards U U, which interior walls are located at a distance [from the exterior walls, thereby eonstructiney airspaces V Y between these interior and the exterior walls. Drainpipes lV lV are also provhled, leading -Vfrom the pans Il Il, the shell' M', and the cooler N downwardly to the drip-pipe lV', opening' through the bottom ot my device trom the ice-receptacle Il.

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For convenience in moving' my device from one locality to another in' the same room, I preferably support it on casters l) b.

It will be understood that thc beer in the kegs or casks G will be cooled by the proximity of the melting ice in receptacle ll, and that as the beer is drawn from the kegs through the pipes R the beer in. such pipes will bc kept cold by ice placed in the cooler N npon the coils R R', so that the supply of beer both in the keg's and in tllcpipes will be kept constantly cold by the supply of ice in the cooler N and in the receptacle ll.

That l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

ln a combined bar and beer-cooler, a cooler, N, closed at the top by the swinging bar top D and adapted to be entirely lled with ice7 in combination with a beer-chamber, F, an

ice-receptacle, ll, separated from the beer- 2o the cooler N and. therefrom through the side 25 of the cooler at a distance from the top and terminating' there in a faucet, S, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN FREDERICK KAUSLER. \Vitnesses:

SAMUEL SPENCER, J, V. MALEY.

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