US831616A - Refrigerator. - Google Patents

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[NVE/VTOR PATENTBD SEPT. 25; 1906.

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WILFRED LANDRY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

Application filed January 23, 1906- Serial No. 297,428.

To all whom it ntay concern:

Be it known that I, WVILFRED LANDRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to refrigerators; and it contemplates the provision of a simple and compact refrigerator embodying a provisionchamber and a cooling-chamber so relatively arranged and connected that cold air will pass downward from the coolingchamber and upward through the provision-chamber and also embodying a reservoir arranged to receive the drip-water from the ice in the cooling-chamber, a filter for purifying such water, and a receptacle arranged to receive and contain the purified water and having a valved outlet, so that such water may be drawn off when desired to be used for drinking purposes.

The invention also contemplates arranging the reservoir, the pure-water receptacle, and the filter intermediate said reservoir and receptacle in such manner relative to the icecompartment and the provision-chamber that the cool air while en route between the ice-compartment and the provision-chamber will operate to keep the water cool.

l/Vith the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claim when the same are considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the refriger ator constituting the present and preferred embodiment of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken through the refrigera tor in a plane parallel to the front and back walls thereof.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A is the body of my novel refrigerator. The said body may be of any construction compatible with my invention without involving a departure from the scope thereof, though I prefer to make it in the form shown and to provide it with a hinged top a, four (more or less) doors I), and an opening 0 in its front wall, the said opening being designed for the passage of the drinking-water faucet (1, hereinafter referred to in detail.

As shown in Fig. 2, the interior of the body A is divided into a provision-chamber B, in

which are a plurality of provision-supporting shelves 6, and a cooling-chamber O, connected at f with the upper portion. of the provisionchamber and having a depending conduit-g, communicating at its lower end with the lower portion of the provision-chamber. The bottom wall it of the cooling-chamber O declines toward the left, as illustrated, and is arranged to discharge any water that finds its way to said wall into a trough i, which may have a drip-pipe j or any other suitable discharge. D is a foraminated or open-work rack which serves in connection with the walls of the cooling-chamber O to form an ice-compartment E. F is a reservoir disposed below the rack D and open at its upper end, so as to receive the water formed by the melting of the ice in the compartment E. G is a wall disposed below the rack D and having a flanged opening it arranged over the reservoir F. H is a pine-water receptacle arranger'l below the reservoir F and provided with a faucet d, through which water may be drawn for drinking purposes, and I is a filterdiaphragm interposed between the reservoir F and the pure-water receptacle H.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that when the compartment E is charged with ice cold air will pass downward. from said compartment and around the reservoir F and receptacle H to the conduit 9, from whence it will pass. upwardly through the provisionchamber B and then through the opening f into the ice-compartment E to be again cooled. From this it follows that a circulation of cool air will be maintained through the chamber B at all times, and consequentlv the contents of said chamber B will be kept iii a wholesome state. The water caused by the pass through the rack D and drop into the reservoir F, from whence it will pass through the filter-diaphragm, and hence will enter the pure-water receptacle H in a wholesome state. By virtue of the reservoir F and receptacle H being arranged in the coolin chamber O the cold air descending fromtl ie compartment E and en route to the lower portion of the provision-chamber B will keep the water in said reservoir F and receptacle H in a cold and wholesome state, as is desirable.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that notwithstanding the fact that my novel refrigerator is simple and inexpensive in construction a small quantity of ice is enabled melting of the ice in the compartment E will 9 5 to efiiciently cool the provision-chamber B and afford a quantity of drinking-water for an indefinite period.

I claim- In a refrigerator, a cooling-chamber having a depending conduit 9 and also having a bottom wall which declines in a direction away from the upper end of said conduit, a trough arranged to receive water from the lower edge of said bottom wall and having a drip-pipe, an ice-compartment in the cooling-chamber, a provision-chamber connected at its upper end with the cooling-chamber and at its lower end with the depending conduit 9 thereof, and shelves arranged in the provisionchamber, the lower of said shelves extending gelow the bottom wall of the cooling-cham- In testimony whereof- I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILFRED LANDRY.

Witnesses:

ALFRED MCDONOUGH, LOUIS P. BRYANT.

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