US514596A - And chauncey - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

J. T.. GURNEY a@ C. J. MBDBERRY.

REFRIGERATOR.

Patented Peb. 13, 1894.

Unire STATES PATENT trios.

JAMES THEODORE GURNEY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AND CHAUNOEY J. MEDBERRY, OF OSHKOSH, VISCONSIN.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 514,596, dated February 13, 1894. Application iiled January 31, 1893. Seal No. 460,399. (No model.)

. To all whom it may concern..-

Beit known that we, J AMESTHEODORE GUR- NEY, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, and CHAUN- CEY J. MEDBERRY, residing at Oshkosh, county of Tvlinnebago, and State of Wisconsin, citizens of the United States,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in refrigerators, it pertaining more particularly to improvements in refrigerators of the sort referred to in the patent to J. T. Gurney, No. 249,758, dated November 22, 1881. VAn eX- tensive experience with the device illustrated in this patent has shown us a number of disadvantages which we have succeeded in obviating by means of the construction herein shown.

Figure 1 is a section of a refrigerator containing our invention. Fig. 2 is a partial section showing an end View of the ice tank and adjacent parts. Fig. 8 is a perspective of the ice tank. Fig. et is a section on an enlarged scale of one of the spools or spacing devices which support the ice tank.

In the drawings the ice tank is shown as having end Walls A, A', a rear Wall A2 and a front Wall A3. The walls all converge slightly to assist in collecting the drip at the bottom, and are turned inwardly at a, there being no closed bottom for the tank. The front wall A3 is not as wide as the rear wall A2, whereby an opening L is left for the passage of ice into the tank. rlhe tank is so situated in the refrigerator that the opening L is opposite the door I of the refrigerator so that the ice may be readily inserted in the tank,the tank being removable through the door for the purposes of cleaning. The end walls A, A', are bent downwardly at F so that the tank may be supported upon bars Fs F3 'extending along the end and rear Walls of the refrigerator and are secured thereto by bolts J', spacing devices or blocks J, J, being interposed between the inner part J 3 of the casing, and the frame bars F3.

By supporting the' tank upon the frame bars and by using the spacing blocks J, we

provide a sufficient air passage around and into the tank. When it is desired to remove the tank it is only necessary to lift it high enough to escape the bars F3, when it is free 55 to move forward.

The support for the front part of the tank is provided by means of a cross-bar K, extending along inside the front wall of the refrigerator. The metal of the front wall A3 6o is bent over at lo at the lower edge of opening L, and rests upon the bar or support K.

B, B, are strips or bars fastened to the lower edges of the front and rear walls of the tank, and extending down to a suitable dis- 65 tance. To the lower ends of these strips or bars is secured the slightly inclined pan C.

D, D, are a series of bars arranged transversely of the ice tank and secured to the inner sides a short distance above the inwardly 7o turned edges a d. Upon these rests the ice rack E, which can be made in any suitable way, preferably consisting of corrugated metal.

Below the bottom plate C there is a pan G 75 detachably connected thereto, which acts to catch the drip from the outer surfaces of the parts above and conduct it to the waste pipe H through openings c c. It is supported by detachable hooks or carriers g g and can be 8o readily moved for cleaning. The waste pipe H is formed with an expanded or more or less funnel-like upper end whereby the introducing of hot or other water for cleaning it is facilitated and whereby it can more effect- 85 ually collect all the water from the parts above. It is formed with a trap h at its lower end, whereby Warm air is prevented from gaining access to the interior of the refrigerator. 9c

We are aware that thirnbles, hangers, and spacing devices of various kinds have been used in structures of other sorts, and of Vcourse We donot mean to claim thembroadly as of our invention. But we believe our- 9 5 selves to be the first to have devised the Way herein shown to firmly support from its upper edges a detachable ice tank, in a refrigerator, which can hold a heavy weight of ice in such way .that the warm air can readily rise roo on all sides to, and pass over its upper edges.

It has been heretofore proposed to provide an ice tank with legs and rest it upon asheet metal pan below, which pan was supported on two bars that extend from side to side of the casing and were inserted into it, the supporting pan having iianges which extended practically close to the walls of the casing. We kobviate this thrusting of the entire weight of the ice upon a sheet metal tank below, and support it rmly from its upper edges, by the described bars F3 which are so remote from the casing walls as to allow free circulation of air on all sides. These supporting bars cannot beheld by ordinary bolts, as the leverage from the weight would be too great, and therefore we distribute the leverage and hold the bars F3 rmly in their proper places by the expanded spacing thimbles J, which are firmly clamped between the bars F3 and the innerpart of the casing wall by the bolts which pass through both.

We do not herein claim any of the matters relating to the construction of the pans C and G and their relation to the tank, as we prefer to claimk them in a separate application which we are about to file.

What we claim is- 1. The combinationk with the ice tank hav ing an ice entrance below the top, of the horizontal supporting bars at the top and supplemental horizontal supports below those at the top, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the ice tank of the supporting frame F3 on the sides and the back, and having at the front an unobstructed passage horizontally opposite the frame for the ice tank whereby the latter can be supported on said frame and also can be withdrawn therefrom by moving it forward, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the ice-tank having the Vertical wall at the back, and the two Vertical side Walls, and having outwardly turned anges or hangers at the upper edges, of the bars F3 remote from the back wall and side walls of the casing, the bolts J extending through the inner part of the casing and through the bars F3, and the expanded spacing devices J against which the bars 11"3 are clamped by the bolts J', said bars F8 holding thebaek walls and side walls of the ice-'tank remote from the casing, whereby the ice-tank is supported from itsupper edges and a circulation of air is permitted over said edges, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with the refrigerator having a door in the front thereof, and a frame secured to the inner walls of said refrigerator, of a removable ice-tank depending from said frame, and having a front wall which is reduced in Width so as to leave an opening opposite the said door, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with the refrigerator having a doorat the front thereof, of frame bars extending around the end and the rear walls of the refrigerator, spacing devices for holding said frame bars at a distance from the said walls, an ice-tank depending from said frame bars and having an opening in the front opposite the said door, the front wall of said ice-tank having a lip extendingalong its length, Vand a bar as at K secured to the refrigerator and upon which the said lip rests, substantially as set forth. f

In testimony whereof we afx our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

J. THEODORE GURNEY. CHAUNCEY J. MEDBERRY. Vitnesses for Gurney: Y

F. G. NESBITT, Moses HoLBRooK. lVitnesses for Medberry: E. R. PATERICK, M. GIFFIN.

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