US604748A

US604748A - Water-cooler

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Publication number: US604748A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-05-31
Anticipated expiration: 1915-05-31

Description

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" P. GUTTENBERG.

WATER COOLER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK GUTTENBERG, 0F BROOKLYN, NElV YORK.

WATER-COOLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,748, dated May 31, 1898.

,Application led April 26, 1897. Serial N0- 633,931 (No model.)

Toa/ZZ whom it i12/ay concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK GUTTEN- BERG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water- Coolers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby hygienic or spring water in large receptacles or demijohns may be conveniently cooled in and dispensed from the same vessel in which it is delivered and in which it is bottled at the spring or place of supply, the construction being such, that not more than ordinary diligence is r'quired in the delivering and placing of each successive demijohn in the main cooling-chamber.

The invention consists of the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is made and which form a, part of this specification, Figure l is a sectional elevation of my invention, showing a demijohn in place and partly emptied of its contents...-

Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view taken on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end view of the cork or stopper section which enters the neck of the demijohn, the vent-tube being removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of the same, showing'a portion of the vent-tube; and Fig. 5 is a detailed view of a modiiication.

A represents an inverted receptacle or demijohn for water, held in a main cooler B in a manner to have its contents cooled by ice in the ice-box C and to have its contents drawn off through a discharge or draw-off pipe D and cock D', which -latter projects at the front sliding door K of the water-cooler, as shown.

The Water-cooler is provided at its back` with a door K', through which the demijohn is to be placed in the cooler and removed the demijohn and contents will prevent leakage at the said cork. 'lhe portion a of thc said section E which enters the neck of the demijohn is formed With an outer flange b, which supports the annular cork F, (preferably of india-rubber,) and also the neck of the demij ohn, and this said portion ais formed with a main longitudinal water-passage c and also with an auxiliary vent or air passage d, which terminates at d below the'flange b, and

to which saidair-passage is connected a vent-l the position shown in dotted lines in the act of putting the demijohn in and removing it from the Water-cooler. The preferred form of construction of the connecting parts is that of a sphere or portion of a sphere, the head or the socket, one VAor the other, being provided by preference with a packing-ring g, of india-rubber or other material, so that the weight of the demijohn and its contents will make a Water-tight joint and prevent leakage. The socket f' is iitted in asupporting block or pedestal H, placed in the main coolingchamber B, as shown in Fig. l.

The body of the demijohn is held in vertical position by a horizontal stanchion J and a swinging cross-bar J', as shown in Figs. l

land 2, and the receptacle or demijohn, resting on the fiat upper face of the flange Z), auto- Inatically alines the section E and holds it central lto load it supports.

In the modification shown in Fig. 5 the discharge-tube D is permanently connected to the parts which constitute the combined stopper and support for the neck of the demijohn, so that in tipping the demijohn in and out of place inthe main cooling-chamber the tube D passes through the front and rear doors K K of the main cooling-chamber.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to sccure by Letters Patent, is* Y IOO A combined support and plug or stopper ical or rounded headand a. draw-off pipe confor the Water-receptacle, consisting of a holnected to said. socket, substantially as de- Io 10W section provided at one end with a ventscribed. tubea surroundimT anwe, an auxiliar vent- 1 5 passage opening `lelowtsaid flange, cen- BREDERICK (TUTrl ENBERG oral cock, and a spherical or rounded head lVitnesses: provided wit-h packing, in combination with H. ALBERTS VEST, a hollow complemented socket forsaid spher- CHARLES J. BRECK.