US538724A - George a - Google Patents

Description

G. A. BOWEN.

REFRIGERATOR.

(No Model.)

Patented May 7, 1895.

NITED STATES GEORGE A. BOWEN, OF FOND DU LAC, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES L. MUENTER, OF SAME PLACE.

REFRIGERATOR.

EEPEGIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N 0. 538,724, dated May 7, 1895.

' Application filed June 16, 1894- Serial No. 514,762. (No modelJ To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L'GEORGE A. BOWEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its principal objects to strengthen the ice-box of a refrigerator and to provide for ready removal of the ice-rack, dripfdeflector and a water-tank that are normally maintained in said ice-box, whereby the latter may be more easily lifted out of the re frigerator-casing and the cleaning of all the parts facilitated. Therefore said invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical transverse section of a portion of a refrigerator embodying my improvements, the section being takenon line 1 1 of the third figure; Fig. 2, a similar view taken on line 2 2 of the succeeding figure; Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinal section taken on line 3 3 of the first figure; and Fig. 4, a plan view'on line 4 4. of the preceding figure, certain of the parts being broken away and others in horizontal section.

Referring by letter to the drawings A represents a refrigerator casing and Bthe cover for the ice-box portion of the casing, the latter and saidcover being of any suitable material and constructed in any suitable manner known in the art.

The ice -box herein shown has its walls turned over at the upper end to form a continuous horizontal flange, that may be stiffened at the corners by reinforcing plates, and when said box is in position for use the flange rests on a corresponding countersunk ledge of the casin g. However no claim is made in this case for any peculiarity in the means for suspending the aforesaid ice-box in said casing. As a matter of preferred structural detail the bottom of the ice-box is formed by continuations of the walls bent inward and upward and having their meeting edges soldered, seamed or otherwise joined together whereby a continuous trough is formed around the inside of said box, the latter being given sufficient pitch to insure the flow of water toward an opening 6 therein that leads to the drain-pipe D of the refrigerator, and I also show the inward and upward turned wall-continuations of such dimensions that a central opening is left in the bottom formed by their union. It is also preferable to have the drip-pan E conform in shape to the lower portion of the ice-box, whereby narrow channels are formed outside the walls of said box and these channels have the necessary pitch to conduct water of condensation to an opening 0 in said pan over the drain pipe. It is also preferable as a matter of structural detail to have the drip-pan suspended by reourved integral portions at thereof engaging the edges of upwardly inclined bottom portions of the ice-box.

The ice-box in any form is materially stiff ened by means of longitudinal strips F of band-iron herein shown as bolted to walls thereof against spacing-thimbles e, and these longitudinal band-iron strips form supports for transverse strips G of like material from which the deflector H is suspended by rivets or other suitable means, the ends of the latter strips being bent down to come outside the former strips and thereby hold said deflector against lateral displacement. In practice it may be found convenient to so place the spacing thimbles as to have them abut the bent ends of the transverse strips H in such a manof the ones G, so that these ends may be bent upward as well as down and thus serve the double function of preventing lateral displacement of the deflector and ice-rack.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the deflector and ice-rack are separate and both of them may be readily removed from the icebox for the purpose of cleaning.

The ice-rack is preferably of corrugated metal and provided upon its under side with band-iron strips K that extend beyond its edges and serve as guards to prevent it from shifting about, the guards in this instance being longitudinal and the corrugations transverse, but this arrangement may be reversed, and in such a case the ends of the guardstrips would be arranged to oppose the spacing-thimbles above specified. i

Adjacent to the drain end of the refrigerator, the ice-box is provided with a transverse strip L of band-iron secured in place by rivets or other suitable means, this strip serving as a support for hooks M cast or otherwise secured to a water-cooler N, and as an advantage of this construction and combination of parts it will be seen that the cooler may be readily lifted out when the faucet thereof is detached, there being no screws or other holding devices that necessitate removal before said cooler can be displaced.

By having the cooler so readily removable the weight of the ice-box may be materially lessened when it is desirable to lift the same out of the refrigerator, and it also follows that in order to have access to all parts of said icebox and cooler, the latter must be removed, otherwise the operation of cleaning cannot be perfectly performed.

In order to obtain the necessary clearance for the faucet-boss of the water-cooler, the icerack is cut away at one corner as best illustrated in Fig. 4, and it is to be noted that the hook supporting the strip L in the ice-box braces the latter in a transverse direction.

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

1. A refrigerator having its ice-box interiorly provided with supporting strips held in place against spacing-devices, and a deflector having suspending strips that rest on those aforesaid.

2. A refrigerator having its ice-box interiorly provided with supporting strips held in place against spacing devices, a deflector, and suspending strips for the deflector, these latter strips being arranged to rest on those aforesaid and turned down at their extremities to come outside the same.

3. A refrigerator having its ice-box interiorly provided with supporting strips held in place against spacing devices, a deflector provided with suspending strips that rest on those aforesaid, and ice-rack guards rising from the deflector-suspending strips.

4. A refrigerator having its ice-box interiorly provided with a transverse bracing strip adjacent to one of its ends, and a water cooler having hooks that detachably engage said strip.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE A. BOWEN.

Witnesses:

O. L. MUENTER, H. B. CHAPIN.

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