US439084A

US439084A - Wine-cooler

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Publication number: US439084A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-10-21
Anticipated expiration: 1907-10-21

Description

A. S. MORTON.

WINE COOLER.

No.- 439,084. Patented Oct. 21, 1890.

InUEnur UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT SUMNER MORTON, OF SUISUN, CALIFORNIA.

Ywires-COOLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,084, dated October 21, 1890.

Application filed July 25, 1890. Serial Ilm-359,933. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cern,.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT SUMNER MOR- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Suisun, Solano county, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Ice-Chest, Water- Cooler, and Bottle-Cooler, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object, chiefly, to provide a combined ice-chest, Watercooler, and bottle-cooler for use in hotels, restaurants, saloons, and other situations to cool wines, liquors, mineral Waters, and other'bottled liquids, and to furnish iced Water for drinking purposes; and it consists in the described construction and combination of icechest, bottle-holder, and a water-cooler in which the water is cooled and kept at loW temperature by the contents of the ice-chestwithout being in direct contact with the ice, and which in turn serves as a cooling or refrigerating medium Without being in direct contact with the bottles, all as hereinafter more fully explained.

The following description explains the manner in which I proceed to construct a combined chest and cooler according to my invention, the accompanying drawings being referred to therein by letters.

Figure 1 is a front elevation in longitudinal section, and Fig. 2 is a plan or top view.

The sides and bottom of the chest have hollow Walls filled with some non-conducting material, and the interior is lined with metal to form a Water-holding compartment A. In the center of this space is a stationary icebox B, .filling about one-third of the length, but of less depth than the compartment, so that the Water-space extends beneath as Well as around the sides of the box. The top of the box is furnished with a hinged cover C, which should be filled with some non-conduct ing material.

D is a bottle-holding tray, that forms also a top orV cover to the Water-compartment, but is not attached by hinges or otherwise permanently fastened, and is removable for convenience in handling the bottles and in cleaning out thewater-compartment. The space on each side of the ice-receptacle is covered by a tray, the edges d* of which are made to lap over the surrounding edges formed by the side of the ice-receptacle and the walls of the chest, and s'uflicient lap is provided to make a close joint all around the rim.

D* are deep Water-tight cups or sockets surrounding the openings in the tray and standing clear of one another and of sufficient length to set into and be surrounded by the Water, even when the quantity is considerably reduced and the Water-line is brought down quite 10W.

In the present construction about the same depth of space is left under the bottom of the bottle-sockets as is left under the ice-receptacle, and as the Water should be kept always above the bottom of the ice-holder by replenishing the Water-cooler from time to time as the supply runs lovv it Will be seen that the bottle-holders are always surrounded by a body of ice-cold Water, which constitutes the cooling medium.

The Water-cooling compartment can be thoroughly cleaned by removing the bottletrays.

A trapped drip-pipe I leads from the iceholder through the bottom of lthe chest, and a faucet H furnishes means to draw ice-Water from the Water-compartment.

A cushion K, of sheet-lead or any other suitable material, is placed in the bottom of each bottlesocket to prevent breakage `in case a bottle is accidently dropped instead of being properly set in the receptacle. When placed in these trays, the bottles are out of contact both with the ice and the Wat-er and are consequently in adryand clean state ready to be served.

A chest of smaller capacity than the one herein described and illustrated could be constructed With a single bottle=holdingtray on one side of the ice-holder, the tray on the opposite side being omitted.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described combined ice-chest, water-cooler, and bottle-cooler, consisting of the chest or box having a Water-holding space, an ice-receptacle in the center of the Watercompartment, the removable bottle-cooling trays forming tops or covers to the Water- IOO compartment and provided with deep Waterthat set into andare surrounded by the Water 1o tight cups or sockets, which set into the wain said space, substantially as described.

ter-cooling space, and an outlet from the Wa- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I ter-cooling space provided With a faucet. have hereunto set n1y hand and seal. 5 2. In combination with a Water-holder, an ALBERT SUMNER MORTON [L s] ice-receptac1e settin g into the Water-space and partly closing the top thereof, and a bottle-f Vitnesses:

holding tray closin g the remaining part of the WILLIAM WOLF,

top and having Water-tight oups or sockets DORMAN B. PERKINS.