US843044A - Refrigerator. - Google Patents

Description

'No. 843,044. PATENTED FEB. 55, 1907.

J. STAUDAGHEE.

REFRIGERATOR. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 15,1905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.

J. STAUDAGHER. REFRIGERATOR.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT.15.1905.

I 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

. F52 Figa JOSEPH STAUDACHER, OF BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA.

REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. '5, 1907.

Application filed September 15,1905- Serial No. 278.583.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH STAUnAcnEn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Butler, in the county of Butler and Sta-.e of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is asp'ecification.

My invention relates to refrigerators, and has for its objectto provide a refrigerator adapted to utilize the low temperature of the ice drippings for lowering the temperature within the refrigerator.

With this and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as "will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and articu-' larly pointedout in the appended c aims, it

being understood that changes in the form,

proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-section to my improved refrigerator on line 1 1 of Fig. 2'. Fig. 2 is a cross-section throughline 2 2 of F g. 1. i Fig. 3 is a horizontal cross-Sec tion through line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of one of the-drip-pans.

Referring to the drawings, in which like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 are the side walls, and 2 and Sthet-op and bot-- tom, respectively, of a refrigerator. icechamber 4, located in the upper portion of the refrigerator, is provided with an air-'passage 5 between the top 2 of the refrigerator and wall 5 of=the-'-icech amber. A sheet of thin metal 21, 'preferably galvanized sheetiron, arranged on one wall of the ice-chamber, as shown, serves to revent contact of the ice with. the said wa l. The dri from the sheet 21 falls into a rece tacle, after referred to. On said wa 5 passages 6 are formedby strips7, secured thereto. The bottom Sof'said ice-chamber sup orts a pan .9, in which is placed a slatted bottom 10. Pan 9 is so: disposed within the ice-chamber that a asb'age 11.is left between it and the end wa l 1 to allow the cold air to pass irom said chamber to the lowerfpart of the refrigerator. Along the side of the pan farthest from air-passage 11 is formed an elongated spout 12, the outer edge of which 6xtendsto the side 'wall of the ice-chamber. will be observed that the cold air is thus pre- -11 or spout 12.

drip-Water, which atemperature of said 2 vented from passing from the ice-chamber to Drip-pans 14, provided with openings 15 in the bottom thereof and hooks 16 011 their ends, are supported by eyes 17, secured to the sides of the ret' igerat or. The openings 15 have inserted in them short tubes 18, which reach nearly to the top of the pan, thereby preventing the water from escaping to the pan below until the first pan isnearly full. The overflow from eachof these pans is caught by the pan below. The bottom pan has located beneath its opening :1 pi e 19 for conducting'the water without the re rigerator. For convenience in cleaning the pans suitable valved outlets 20 are pro vided. I

From the foregoing description it will be seen that'the drippings from the melting ice in chamber 4 will be caught by pan 9 and conducted through spout 12- to the first drippan 14. When the water in said drip-pan as reached the top of the tube 1-8, the .o'ver- How will pass through said tube into/the drippan next below it, and so on through the se ries of drip-pans 14 until it is discharged by the lowest-drip-pan in pipe 19, by which it is conducted without the refrigerator. .By lo-' opposite the drip-pan next above it the Water has to travel the length of the pan before it is discharged therefrom. As the cold air-from the ice-chamber 4 descends through passage 11 it sucks in the warm air through opening 5 from the opposite side of the refrigerator. This forms a current ol air from one side of 'sarily coming in no ct with the ans of i tend to equalize the r and water. The cura t he surface of the Water evaporation, which rent of airpassingov will cause more or will also reduce the .emperatme within the refrigerator. W hen it is desired to clean the? the refrigerator to theother, said air necespans, they may be removed for thatp'urpose.

Having thus described my inventionpwh at I claim as novel, and desire "to secure bydaeo ters Patent, is-' In a refrigerator, the combination, with an outer casing, of an interior compartment comprising; a bottom andside walls and.

adapted to contain ice, the base of said compartment-being providednuth a single narrow or restricted o ening, a series of narrouk n vertically,

proximity --dispos'ec receptacles arranged iii], to eachother and adapted to 5110- cessively receive the ice drippings from said In testimony wli e r iof Laffix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. 4 I

JOSEPH STAUDACHER.

Vitnesses GEORGE H. FRoEHLIoH, CLARENCE V. WATKINS.

compartment, said series of receptacles being arranged under said opening, hooks or lugs carried by each end of said receptacles and hook-engaging supports carried by said Walls and coasting with said hooks or lugs to form E a positive support for said receptacles.

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