US549289A

US549289A - Cabinet for holding

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Publication number: US549289A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-11-05
Anticipated expiration: 1912-11-05

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R. M. FLOYD. v CABINET FOR HOLDING, DISPLAYING, AND RATING WATCHES. No. 549,289. I PatentediNov. 5, 1895.

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v I R M. FLOYD. I CABINET FOR HOLDING, DISPLAYING, AND RATINGIWATGHES. No. 549,289. Patented Nov. 5,1895.

PATENT OFFI E. I

oscon M. FLOYD, or BOSTON, MAssAcnusErrs.

CABINET FOR HOLDING, DIS

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 549,289,

Application filed July 2 5, 18.9 6.

I .To all who'm it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROSCOE M. FLOYD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, 'in the county of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Cabinet for Holding, Displaying, and Rating -Watches while being Adjusted to Heat and Cold, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a par-thereof.

The object of my invention is to provide a combination show-case and cabinet in which the temperature of the several compartments is easily and accurately regulated and in which the watches in the successive stages may be displayed to the customer without redium temperatln'es and communicate with moving them.

My invention consists of a cabinet or case divided into a numberof compartments, in combination with refrigerating apparatus and heating apparatus and pipes leading therefrom to the several compartments and valves 'to regulate the supply of cold and hot air,

and in providing transparent doors to the several compartments and means for illuminating and taking the temperature thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my cabinet, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a'horizontal section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1, with the doors-open. Fig.3 is an enlarged view of one of the valves. Fig. 4 is asection on line 4 4of Fig.3, but with the handle turned part way around. Fig. 5 is a front view of the valve, and Fig.- 6 is a cross-section on line 6 6 of Fig. 4.

' compartments The cabinet A is divided into a number of 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Compartment 1 isthe refrigcrating-chamber. The refrigeration may be obtained in-. any.of the well-known ways. In

' the drawings the chamber is represented as nearly filled with chopped ice aand also as having a coil of pipe a, leading from. the refrigerating-machine B, in which the ammonia rocessisused c re resentin 'thee ansiontank, a the condenser, and a the returnpipc. The ice and the machine may be used together, or either alone, or any other refrigerating device may be employed. A shelf 0, serves to hold the watches. This chamber has the lowest temperature of all.

numbered, respectively, 1 2 3.

PLAYING, 4 ml:- RATING WATCHES.

dated November 5, 1895; 7

Serial No. 557,085. (No model.)

Compartment 2 has a hinged bottom I), which turns upon hinges, as shown in Fig. 2, to alford access to the refrigerating-chamber. It is preferably made of glass to afford a view of the interior of the chamber. A removable up the bottom on the hinges. The watches are placed on this frame shelves may be provided. Compartment '3 has a. glass door If and is provided with a ea'ch other. They are preferably separated titions A A made ofsome material which is a non-conductor of heat andcold. The shelves 0, d, and'e, which form the bottoms, respectively, of the

compartments

3, 4, and 5, only free circulation, and they are really but one compartment. A pipe (1' leads from the ref rigerating chamber 1 into compartment 4,

10, each pipe being provided with a valve R, which can be adjusted to admit-either cold or hot air, or both, or to exclude both, as desired. The construction of this valve will be described-more particularlyhereinafter. Athermometer 0' shows the temperature of the four compartments and they are illuminated by an. electric lamp 0- The watches remain the longest in the medium therefore shown more shelf-space than in the other compartments.- If desired, each of the compartments 3 4 5 6 may be entirely separated one from the other and cold and hot air pipes run into each; but it isa saving of expense to have scribed. The watches are transferred to these ments also have a glass door. A

, Compartment QlO is a hot-air chanrber, into which is led a gas-pipe 11, connected with a gasmain and having a burner 12!, or it is heated air chamber to the compartment 7, terminate from the compartments on either side by par-- temperatures, and I have rectangular frame I) rests upon the glass bottom 1) and has to be removed in order to tip and additional partially cover the bottom, so that there is '7 and a pipe (1 leads into it from hot-air chamber them communicate, as decompartinents from No. 2. These compartbyagas-stove. Pipesg',leadingfromthis hots in cons g, each provided with a valve R to hot-air coils h h, connected with the hot-air chamber by pipes h,valves R, thermometer IO 7L2, electric lamp h glass door, an'da place for watches.

Compartment 9 also has hot-air coils Z Z,

valves R, thermometer Z, glass door, and a- One door may serve for place for watches.

all the hot compartments. The temperature of compartment 8 is higher than that of

compartment

7, and 9 is higher than 8. The temperature fro'm chamber 1 to chamber 10 should range from below zero to 100 above zero. The valve R will now be more particularly described. The valve connected with pipe (1 is taken for illustration, the construction On the .7

of. the other valves R being the same.

endof pipe d is jointed a short section of pipe d bent out of line with the pipe (1 and preferably tapering toward the end to form a small outlet. A- trumpet-mouthed tube 1'' incloses the pipe (i and the mouth of the trumpet-tube is closed by a disk 1", which has a flange 1' fito "tingsnugly'into the mouth of the tube 1'. A

gear-wheel r is mounted on a shaft 1', proj ecting from the disk 7-. This gear-wheel r is so mounted that it covers and is seated upon the end of the bent section of pipe (1 and is ec-' centric therewith. The wheel T has a sectoral opening r in its face, near the periphery, and this opening aligns with the" mouth of the pipe d as the wheel revolves. The wheel r is geared with-the pinion r fixed on the center arborr which is turned by a crank r. The crankmaybe set at any angle desired, so that the valve gear-wheel a"? shall either en- I tirely close the mouth of the tube d or allow it to be entirely uncovered by bringing the wide part of the opening 7' to register with the tube or partially closing it. A small hole r in the side of the trumpet-tube and flange 1- communicates with the interior of the chamber 4, so that when the valve is open the cold 7 air has free access to the chamber, or hot air in case of the hot-air tube.

The face of the disk '1" is graduated and an index-hand 1- indicates the degree of opening. The temperature in A all the compart- '65 compartment cooled from the refrigerating chamber, a compartment for medium temperatures with pipes leading thereinto'from ment-s can therefore be very accuratelyregwboth the refrigerating chamber and the heating chamber, and valves to regulate the supply of cold air and hot air, and a compart- '70 ment for high temperatures having a pipe leading thereto from the heating chamber, and a valve to regulate the supply of hot air, substantially as described.

A cabinet for rating watches for adjustment to heat and cold, said cabinet being divided into compartments of successive grades of temperature, and having a refrigerating chamber and a heating chamber, a cold air compartment cooled from the refrigeratingfio chamber, a compartment for medium temperatures with pipes leading thereinto from both the refrigerating chamber and the heating chamber, and valves in said pipes to regulatethe supply of cold air and hot air, and a number of compartments for high tempera. tures each having one or more pipes leading thereinto from the heating chamber, and valves in the pipes to regulate the supplyof hot air to each compartment, substantially as described;

3. A cabinet for rating watches for adjust ment to heat and cold, said cabinet being di vided into compartments of successive grades I of temperature, and having a refrigerating chamber and a heating chamber, a cold air compartment cooled from the refrigerating chamber, a compartment for medium temperatures with pipes leading thereinto from both the refrigerating chamber and the besting chamber, and valves in said'pipes to regulate the supply of cold air and hot air, and one or more compartments for high temperatures each having a pipe leading thereinto from the heating chamber, and valves in the pipes to regulate the supply of hot air, and transparent doors to the several compartments, substantially as described.

4. Acabinet for ratingwatchesfor adjustment to heat and cold, said cabinet being di- :10 vided into compartments of successive grades of temperature, and having a refrigerating chamber and a heating chamber, a cold air compartment cooled from the refrigerating chamber, a compartment fo'r medium tem- 1 15 peratures with pipes leading thereinto from A both the refrigerating chamber and the heating chamber, and valves in said pipes to regulate the supply of cold air and hot air, and compartments for high temperatures havinghzo pipes leading thereinto from the heating chamber, and valves in the pipes to regulate the supply of hot air, transparent doors to the several compartments, and thermometers and lampsin the several compartments, subr25 stantially as described.

5. A cabinet for rating watches for adjustment to heat and cold, said cabinet'being divided into compartments of successive grades of temperature, and having. a refrigerating 13o chamber and a heating chamber, a refrigerating machine, a refrigerator coil in the -refrigerating chamber connected with the refrigerating machine, a cold air compartment of artificial heat connected with the heating- 649,289 I I a cooled from the refrigerating chamber, means chamber, a' compartment for medium temperatures with pipcs leading thereinto from both the refrigerating chamber and the heating chamber, and valves in said pipes to regulate the'supply of cold air and hot air, and compartments for high temperatures having pipes leading, thereinto from the heating chamber, andvalves in the pipes to regulate the supply of hot air, and transparent doors to the several compartments, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a pipe for fluids terminating in a bent section (i a trumpet mouthed tube 'a" jointed to the fluid pipe and having a cap over the mouth,-forming a chamber which incloses the bent section of pipe d an outlet opening r in the sidepf the chamber, arotatable disk valve r seated on the end of the bent pipe d and eccentric thereto and mounted on a shaft, a hole in the face of the disk which registers with the mouth of the pipe when the disk is rotated into certain positions, a pinion wheel geared with the valve disk and fixed to an arbor which extends through the cap, and a handle by which the valve isv operated, substantially as described.

' 7. The combination" of a pipe for fluids terminating in a bent section (1 .a trumpet mouthed tube '1' jointed to the fluid pipe and 4o geared with the valve disk and fixed to an having a cap over the mouth, forming a chamber which incloses the bent section of pipe (1 an outlet opening r in theiside of the chamber, a rotatable disk valve r seated on the end of the bent pipe (1 and eccentric thereto and mounted on a shaft, a hole of varying width in the face of the'disk which registers with the mouth of the pipe when the disk is rotated into certain positions, a pinion wheel arbor which extends through the cap and a handle by-which the valve is operated, a dial on the face of the cap and an' indicator which shows the degree of opening of the valve, substantially as described;

8. A cabinet for rating watches for adjustment to heat and cold, said cabinet being divided into compartments of successive grades of temperature, and having a refrigerating chamber and a heating chamber, a cold air compartment cooled from the refrigerating chamber, a compartment for medium temperatures with pipes leading thereinto from both the refrigerating chamber and the heating chamber, one or more compartments for high temperatures each having a-pipe leading thereinto from the heating chamber, valves in the several pipes to regulate the supply of cold air and of hot air, the several pipes which enter the compartments each terminating in a bent portion, as (1 and having a trumpet mouthed tube rjointed to the supply pipe and having a cap over the mouth forming a chamber which in'clos'es the bent section, an outlet openingr in the side of the chamber, a rotatable disk valve r seated on the end of the bent pipe and eccentric there-to and mounted on a shaft, a hole in the face of the disk which registers with the mouth of the pipe when the disk is rotated into certain positions, a pinion wheel geared with the valve disk and fixed to an arbor which extends through the cap, and a handle by which the valve is operated, a dial on the face of the cap and an indicator which shows the degree of opening of the valve, substantially as described.

- ROSOOE M. FLOYD.

Witnesses ALBERT E. CovELLE, HENRY A. POLLEY.

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