US477917A - Drainer for draft apparatus - Google Patents

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H STRATER DRAINBR, FOR DRAFT APPARATUS.

Patented June, 1392-- fue nmmls paren: co.. mmomr UNITEDr STATES PATEN HERMAN s'rRATER, on Bos'roN, .'iviAssncHUsETTs.

DRAIN ER FOR DRAFT APPARATUS.

Y SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N .`47'7,917, dated June 28, 11392.`

' p Application fnearebmrycais-9z. sentire. 422,737. (Nono'aai .To alllwhom it may concer-rt:L A

Beit known that I, HERMANSTRATER, a citizen of the United Statearesidingat Boston,

in the county ofl SuolkandState of Massachusetts, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements'in `Drainersfor Draft Appa- A ratus; and I do herebydeclare the. following to" be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such asvwill enable others skilled in thevart to which it appertains to make and` use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which forma part of this specification.

This invention relates to drainers for draft apparatus; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the several parts whereby the entire structure is not only simplied, but with the same-sized drainer larger capacity is created and other advantages are secured. A

The drawings represent in Figure 1 a perspective view of a drainer embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 isa similar section of the old form for purposes of comparison. The heavy black lines indicate sheet metal.

Drainers of the class above premised, particularly beer on draft, contain certain prominent characteristics, primarily a rectangular oblong box 2, provided with a series of watertight receptacles 3 3, closed and open, respectively, arranged beneath the draft-faucets 4 4. The object of these drainers is to furnish a storage-shelf for the glasses, means for washing, rinsing, and draining the same, also for the retention of the drip or overliow of the beverage, and, lastly, the cooling of the latter prior to its consumption. To' carry out these several purposes, said drainers are fitted with the open receptacles 3 3', in which the glasses are to be washed after use. The closed receptacles 3 serve as ice-chambers, which contain coils of pipe 5, one end of which enters the barrel or source of supply, while the other extremity terminates in the draft-faucets 4, preferably grouped in line above the drainer. Since said receptacles are to contain ice, they may be double-walled after the manner of refrigerators in general and, as shown inFig. 2, on the front side of the drainer. Each receptacle 3 is closed by aremovable imperof drainer-plates 9. The latterarepreferably flush with the corrugated plate'S andare made up of a series of` bars Lof `inverted-V shape in cross-section. These barsare disposed longitudinally of the drainer.

It will be noticed that the corrugatious in the plate 8 are transversely of said drainer and are intended to pitch slightly forward so as to compel the drip toenter the front part of the cover, whence it is conveyed away by means of a discharge consisting of a short pipe 10 with a funnel-shaped mouth.l Connecting with said pipe is the overflow-tube13, which is rigidly positioned in the ice-chamber andv `s supplied with outlet-openings 15 to permit the water from the melting ice to escape.

By the above-described arrangement the Waste beverage or drip from the faucets and the water drainage from the washed glasses cannot have access to the ice-chamber, but is passed away through the tube 13, which serves as a common Waste-pipe for both.

In order to show the more readily my im,- provements and the ladvantages obtained thereby, a cross-section ofthe old form of vdrainer is illustrated in Fig. 3. In such drainer the corrugated plate was made removable, while the front was a fixture projected beyond the ice-chamber and was supported bya longitudinal bar 14. Furthermore, the drainerplate 'was made of a atvpan with a number of perforation's; but owing to its construction and the spatter therefrom it was necessary that the topy of said drainer-plate should be considerably below the surface used for the drainage of the glasses. Another prominent feature consisted in having two wastespipes, one for the ice-box, the other for the waste beverage and water from the glasses. Necessarily this pipe appeared, in front. With my IOC present improvements this is concealed, while the frontwall' of tlie drainer is auniform plane surface in lieu of having a projecting bar 14 thereacross. f 1

A further advantage 'from' my improvements is that the ice-chamber, is enlarged,` while the entire cover-"6 can be liF'edv o, allow# ing full access for lling with ice or for repairs. Conversely, inthe old apparatus only the back part 8 or corrugated portion is removable, and since the faucets project over the same thel space by w'hichthe ice-chamber" is replenished is necessarily very limited. In lieu of making the corruga'tedportion S'separate from but attached to the cover 6 the latterA may'becorrugated', in which event the uppl j''' dan be'hi'ttdi tion' and` :Witlilongitudinal drainage" apertures in the from. portionandia single waste pipe" communicating witlr the Vicechamber and1I with thel drainenplate, substantially as described.

2. In combination with agroup of open and l closed Water-tight receptacles andi draft-faucets thereabove from a suitable supply, atrans- Lversely -corrugated plate lengthwise of the closed receptacles at the top rear portion, a ,series ofd'rainer-plates composed of longi- 'y tud'ir'ial bars with apertures therebetween and -flush with the corrugated plate, and means gfor discharging' Waste" beverage and melted ice through a common pipe, substantially as stated and explained.

A 3.. In a drainer,a groupof open and closed Wessels, conveying-pipes in part Within the closed vessels, and the draft-faucets therefor, combined with a removable coverfor theclosed Wessels, a transverselyccrrugatedplate se- AQcure'd outhesl'i'ea'ii part of Saidcover, and deta'ch able drainei'ilplates' raised' ab'ovethe `front portion? of said cover, with a' vvstelpipe com; 1; meu. to the emmer-plate and the closed'reice-ptacleg--substantially as' described and set forth.

Intestimony W-lier'eofl my signatu rein presence' ofy two* Witnesses.l A K l HERMAN STRATE'R.

Witnesses:

H. LODGE,

FRANCIS C; ST'A-NWooD.

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