US431931A

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Publication number: US431931A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-07-08
Anticipated expiration: 1907-07-08

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J. BARKER 8; L. L. PRIERSON. PACKING AND REFRIGERATING VESSEL.

No. 431,931. Patented July 8, 1890.

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No. 431,931. Patented July 8, 1890.

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UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB BARKER, OF COLUMBIA, AND LUTHER L. ERIERSON, 0F MOUNT PLEASANT, TENNESSEE.

PACKING AND REFRIGERATING VESSEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,931, dated July 8, 1890.

Application filed January 30, 1890. Serial No. 338,634. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AOOB BARKER and LUTHER L. FRIERsoN, citizens of the United States, residing at Columbia and Mount Pleasant, respectively, in the county of Maury and State of Tennessee, have invented new and useful Improvements in Packing and Refrigcrating Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the packing-refrigerator for which Letters Patent No. 110,481 were issued September 3, 1889, to Jacob Barker, and to the improvements thereon described and shown in an application for Letters Patent filed by the said Jacob Barker October 5, 1889, Serial No. 326,103.

The objects of the present invention are to improve the prior structures; to provide novel means whereby all parts within the envelope or outer casing can be readily removed to facilitate cleaning; to provide a novel antiseptic packingjacket detachable, buckled about the can or containing-vessel; to provide novel means for holding the packingjacket away from the can or containing-vessel and at the same time form between the two an annular series of vertical parallel water-chann els for conducting the ice-water from the ice-chamber down to the base of the structure, and to provide a'novel support for the bottom of the can or containing-vessel whereby the efficiency of the refrigerator is materially increased.

To accomplish all these objects the invention involves the features of construction and the combination or arrangement of parts hereinafter described and specifically set forth in the claims, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the refrigerator. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View of the envelope and packing-jacket, showing the can or containing-vessel in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 0: ac, Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is detail-perspective view looking at the inside of the packing-jacket. Fig. 5 isa top plan view of the antiseptic packing-disk for supporting the can or containing-vessel. Fig. 6 is a View similar to Fig. 3, showing a modification of the means for forming the vertical water-channels. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective View showing another means for forming the vertical water-channels. Fig. 8 is a detail perspective view showing a modified construction of the packing-jacket for use in connection with the device shown in Fig. 7.

In order to enablethose skilled in the art to make and use our invention we will now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawings, wherein- The numeral 1 indicates the milk-can or other containing-vessel having an inclined breast 2, from which rises a neck 3, provided with a suitable cover 4. This vessel may be of any size and is preferably made to contain a considerable quantity of whatever material is placed therein.

Surrounding the can 1 is an antiseptic packing-jacket 5, composed of a sheet of felt or rubber, to which is applied a preparation of cork or other similar material of an antiseptic character. This jacket is formed of a single strip or sheet of such length and width as to wholly inclose and surround the can, upon which it is fastened by means of straps 7 and buckles 8, applied to its contiguous vertical ends. The can 1 rests upon an antiseptic disk 8 of material similar to that composing the jacket 5, and having such diameter that it affords support to packing-j aoket, the lower edge of which rests upon the outer portion of the disk. Upon the inner face of the jacket 5 are strips or slats 9, of any suitable shape and formed of any suitable material--such as wood or metal-and projecting from the surfaces on which they are mounted. The slats upon the jacket are arranged to stand vertically when the jacket is upon the can.

Surrounding the can and inclosing the packing-jacket is an exterior envelope or casing 10, formed of wood or other material suitable for the purpose. In form it resemblesabarrel having a removable lid 12, provided with suitable fastenings. The antiseptic disk 8 is placed upon an elevated platform 8*, having supporting-legs that stand on the bottom wall of the envelope, whereby a water space or chamber is created at the base of the structure. The envelope surrounds the jacket too eration.

Resting upon the top of thecan or vessel 1, at or near its outer edge, is an annular inclined plate 15, the outer edge of which is provided with suitable fasteningssuch as hooks 16-which detachably engage eyes 17 in a flange or collar 18, mounted on the inner face of the envelope somewhat above the packing-jacket; but in place of the flange or collar 18 I may use hangers 19. The circular or annular plate not only alfords a support for the ice, but it guides the water produced by the melting of the ice down to the canbreast, whence it flows between the latter and the wired lower edge of the annular-plate,-

passes over the outer surface of the can, and flows down through the vertical water-channels 9, formed by the vertical strips 9, between the external surface of the can or contaming-vessel and the internal surface of the packing-jacket. The ice-water by superficial contact with the can serves to cool the same. The packing-disk 8 is also provided with parallel strips 9 on its upper side, upon which the bottom wall of the can rests, and the disk is provided with drip-holes 20 in such manner that the ice-water leaving the lower ends of the vertical water-channels 9 flows into the spaces between the can-bottom and the disk and through the drip-holes 20 in the latter to the water-chamber below the elevated platform 8 from whence it may be discharged, as occasion demands, through the escape-orifices 13.

The vertical strips 9, in addition to formin g the annular series of vertical water-channels 9 serve to stiffen and support the packing-jacket; but we do not confine ourselves to the independent water-channels formed by the separated vertical strips, for such channels can be otherwise formed. For instance, the

a vertical independent water-channels may be formed by a sheet of metal or other sufficiently stiff material corrugated and attached to the packing-jacket, as at 21, Fig. 6, so that the corrugations form separate vertical channels 9 and serve to hold the packing-jacket at a distance from the can or containing-vessel. If the corrugated sheet 21, Fig. 6, be employed, as described, it may be perforated, as at 22. The vertical water channels can also be formed by aseries of separated vertical strips 23, secured to horizontal parallel straps 24, adapted to be buckled around the can or containingvessel, so that the strips 23 rest in contact therewith. If this construction be -;employed to provide the vertical water-channels, the antiseptic packing-jacket is buckled around the said strips 23, and at itsupper edge the jacket may have hooks, as at 25, Fig. 8, to hook into engagement with the uppermost horizontal strap 24 for the purpose of preventing the jacket from slipping down or collapsing when saturated with water.

The refrigerator described is useful for preserving and shipping milk, poultry, and other food products; and it is simple and economical and can be conveniently cleaned, since all the parts may be readily removed and replaced.

WVe do not herein claim the annular plate detachably secured to supports on the envelope and forming, in connection with the canbreast, an annular trough, as such constitutes the subject-matter of the application for Letters Patent hereinbefore alluded to.

, \Ve do not Wish to be understood as confining ourselves to the packing-jacket when antiseptic properties are imparted thereto, for this packing-jacket may be composed of a flexible sheet of felt or other fibrous material without antiseptic preparation.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is 1. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an envelope, a detachable can arranged therein, a packing-jacket detachably secured around the can, an ice-chamber above the can, a water-chamber below the can, and an annular series of separated unobstructed vertical water-channels formed between the can and the packing-jacket for conducting the ice-water downward in contact with the can to the water-chamber, substantially as described.

2. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an external envelope, an interior can, a vertically-divided packing-jacket between the casing and vessel, and a disk beneath the can and between it and the bottom of the envelope, said jacket and disk being formed of an antiseptic material and provided with strips or slats upon the surfaces adjacent to the can, substantially as described.

3. A packing-refrigerator consisting of a can or vessel, a packing-jacket surrounding the same and composed of a sheet of fabric having a coating of antiseptic material and provided upon its inner face with vertical slats or strips of suitable material, a disk of similar construction arranged beneath the can and its jacket, and an outer envelope inclosing the jacket and having a lid, substantially as described.

4. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an inner containing-can, a surrounding vertically-divided packing-jacket formed of a sheet of antiseptic material fastened upon the can at its adjacent edges by straps and buckles, and provided upon its inner face with vertical strips or slats, an outer envelope, and a disk of antiseptic material having slats crossing its upper surface and interposed vbetween the perforated bottom of the outer envelope 25 detachably mounted on the can-breast within 1 and the can and jacket, substantially as described.

5. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an envelope, a container arranged therein, and having an inclined breast, a vertically-divided packing-jacket surrounding the can, an annular series of vertical water-channels between the container and the jacket, a diskintel-posed between the bottom of the envelope, the can, and the packing-jacket,-and an annular plate having its lower edge resting upon the can-breast, extending upward and outward and detachably connected to internal supports on the envelope, substantially as described.

6. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an external envelope, a can arranged therein and having an inclined, breast, a detachable packingjacket surrounding the can and composed of an antiseptic material provided with vertical strips or slats, a disk of similar con struction between the bottoms of the can and easing, the latter being provided with one or more escape-openings, and an annular plate an ice-chamber in the upper part of the en velope, substantially as described.

7. A packing-refrigerator consisting of an envelope, a removable antiseptic packingdisk in the lower portion thereof, a can supported by the disk and having an inclined breast, a removable vertically-divided packin g-j acket surrounding the can and having its vertical edges detachably connected together, an annular series of vertical unobstructed water-channels formed between the can and the divided jacket, and a removable annular inclined plate having its outer edge detachably connected to internal supports on the envelope and forming in combination with the breast an annular trough, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We have affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB BARKER. LUTHER L. FRIERSON.

Witnesses:

ISAAC SAFFANANS, G. M. ENGLE.