US746739A - Refrigerator. - Google Patents

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No.746,739. I PATENTED DEc.1s,1 90s.

M. R, PEROTTI. REFRIGERATOR.

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Be it known that I, MARIE R. PEROTTI,a citizen of i the United State -residing at Newark, in thecounty of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Refrigerators; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description .of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of; this specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide a household-refrigerator into which the ice can be easily inserted or supplied, to secure a construction which will accommodate bottles of wine, beer, or other beverages desired to be kept cool, to enable said bottles to be reached from either the top or front of the refrigerator, and to obtain other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved refrigerator and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substan-' tially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 shows my improved refrigerator in front elevation; and Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same, partly in central vertieal section as on lines, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view similar to that shown in Fig. 2 with the top cover raised and the front ice-door opened or let down; and Fig. 4 is a front elevation, partly in central vertical section on a line from side to side.

In said drawings, 2 indicates the body of my refrigerator, and 3 the usual lower front door providing access to the food-compartment 4:. Above said food-compartment is a horizontal floor 5, with an opening 6 at the center thereof and having raised edges 7, upon which rests a corrugated plate 8, adapted to support a cake of ice when put in the refrigerator. As said ice melts the water flows off the plate 8 and escapes through a drain-tube 9, as common in refrigerators, and

at-the. same timea part 5r the 'cold air from the ice-chamber passes beneath the plate 8 At the sides of--the ice-rack 8 are upright partitions 10, extending from front to back of the refrigerator-and being perforated to permit, the circulation of cold air. Beyond each partition 10, toward the end of the refrigerator, is animperforated partition 11, extending from theflo'or 5 upward and forming between itself and theperforated partition 10a-space forzbottles of wine or the like, where such wine: can: be kept cold. Each partition 11 stands 1 a little away from the end wall of the refrigerator, so that cold air can pass over the top of said partition and down between the said end wall and partition. Furthermore, the floor 5 is cut away between the end walls of the refrigerator and said partitions 11 to provide a space 12, through which the cold air may pass to the food-chamber beneath.

At the front of the refrigerator each bottlecompartment described is accessible by a small door 13, hinged at one vertical edge and having fastening means at the other of any common form. Between said small doors 13 is a large door 14,-.which opens into the ice-chamber and through which a piece of ice can he slid into place without lifting it to the full height of the refrigerator. Said door extends from near the level of the floor 511pward out through the top edge of the wall of the refrigerator and is hinged at its bottom edge to tip downwardly forward, as shown in Fig. 3 more particularly. A stay 15 is position when let down, so that it mayserve as a table or shelf on which to place the ice preliminary to pushing into place in the icechamber.

The top of the refrigerator is closed by a hinged cover 16, as is common, and by tipping this up access may be had to all the compartments described. Preferably said hinged cover or lid has a. central removable piece of itself forming a second cover 17, which can be independently removed if it is not convenient to tip up the main cover 16. The said main cover 16 sits at its edges when closed into a recess 18, formed at the outer portion of the upper edges of the refrigerover the flange 7 to the food-chamber below.

provided to hold the said door in horizontal ator-walls, whereby the front door 14 to the ice-chamber is held closed until said cover is raised. To permit such raising of the top cover without opening it to its full height, and thus exposing the whole top portion'of the refrigerator to the warmth of the room, I provide upon the opposite outer end walls of the refrigerator-body pivotal buttons 19 of an oblong shape, adapted when turned parallel to the plane of the closed cover to permit said cover to shut tight, but when turned at rightangles to said plane to engage at their upper ends the edges of the cover and hold it up far enough to free the top edge of the front ice-door 14. The ice can then be inserted with ease and readiness and with a minimum opening of the refrigerator.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is The herein-described refrigerator having a body part providing a rectangular chamber, an interior horizontal partition dividing said chamber into upper and lower portions and having entire ends and an apertured center, said partition terminating at its extremities short of the end walls of the chamber and providing communication between the upper and lower portions thereof, imperforate vertical partitions extending upward from the extremities of' said horizontal partition and reaching from the front wall of the chamber to its back wall, perforated partitions extending upward from said horizonal partition on opposite sides of its apertured center parallel to the said imperforate partitions, said perforate partitions forming between themselves an ice-compartment, with an apertured bottom, and between themselves and the end partitions compartments for bottles having closed bottoms, a door in the front wall of the body part opening laterally into the lower portionof the chamber, a similar door opening into the front of the icecom: partment, independent doors in said wall opening into-said bottle-compartments at their front ends, and a hinged top or lid on said body aifording access to both the icecompartment and the bottle-compartment from above.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of July, 1902.

MARIE R. PEROTTI.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, O. B. PITNEY.

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