US928908A - Water-cooler. - Google Patents

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G. EADS. WATER GooLEn.

APPLIOATION FILED 116.29, 1908.

Patented July 20, 1909.

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i is a specification;

,Be it known .l that.: LXVIIInrAri EADS, a citizen of the United StatesVresiding, at Kansas City, inthecounty:ofyJackson and .State of Missouri, have vinvented a new and useful Vater-Cooler, of which the following This invention relates to water coolers and has for its principal object to provide a novel form of cooler that is adaptedespecially for use in connection-with bottles or demi]ol 1ns used in the supply of drinking Water.

' A further object of the invention to provide a novel form of cooler inwhich a.

Water cooling compartment` is arranged at the bot-tom of an ice tank and is provided with' partitions or bathe plates arranged to path for the Water to the .i With these and other objects in v-ieW','as will more fully hereinafter' ap ear, the in `vention consists inl certain nove features of construction and arrangement of parts, more fully hereinafter described, illustrated in 'the accompanying drawings, and more, particularly pointed out in the' appended claims, it being understood that -various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction may be made Without deL. parting from the spirit or sacricingany of the advantagesof the invention.

ln the accompanying drawings z-F igure 1 is a .vertical sectionalview of a Water cooler constructed 1n accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 1s a horlzontalsection of the same on .the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. g

Similar numeralsv of referenceA are em; ployed to indicate corresponding lparts throughout the several figures of the drawings. v The tank properis formed of outer and inner casings 10 and 11 which may be made of galvanizedsheet iron, or other metal, and` these are s aced from eachother for the reception 'o some non-conducting material such as mineral Wool, or the like. In the bottom of the casing is arrangedashallow` Water cooling chamber 12 that covers the entire bottom of the tank and -in said chamber are arran eda number of'vertically disposed baie plates' 13 which serve in part as a. s'upport for the upperwall of the chamber and which also form a tortuous passage for' the water to be cooled. v

Extending upward from the chamber 12 l at'entd July '20, i909.

a pei-ed 4,casing 14 entends circular. .opening 'formed in the 'stationary top, loof-the tank, this stationarytfop coveril v y ing approximately half the l horizontal area of the tank and being provided at the edge with a reinforcing iange" 16'.

'1`he Vcasing let tapers gradually from the lower chamber 12 to the stationary to`p 15 and thence flares outwardly and is provided att-he top of the ring 18 that. preferably is formed lof rubber or other yieldable material, this rubber ring serving as a support for thewater bottle w which is placed in inverted position so that the water may tloiv Vinto the casing 14. l

The lower portion of the oasi-ng 14 extends down to the bottom of the main tank so that, in connection `With'the stationary' top'15, it may forma rigid support for the Waterbottle, and at the bottom of lthe casing are numerous openings 20 through which the water may flow into the lower cooling chamber 12.

The main tank is arranged for the reception of ice which may be placed in position by vremoving the cover 21. and the icev is lirmly packed around the casing 14, While 'its Weight is supported by the upper Wall of the chamber 12 and the bathe plates 13, these battle plates acting to reinforce the upper Wall of the chamber and serving also as rigid braces for the lower end of the casing 14.

VThe Waste Water-due to.' the melting of the ice may be drawn oil" through a suitable opening 2 5, While the water cooling chamber is supplied with a' discharge faucet 26 of any -suitable'characteiz By extendin thewall of the casing 14 along straightv ines from the top to the botfl tom of lthe tank the Weight of the bottle is vtransmitted directly from the .top of the tank i. end of said bearing uponthe bottom of the tank, that portion of the easing Within the cooling chamber being formed with outlet openings, the upper end of the casing constituting a support for a water-supply vessel, the Wall of said casing extending along straight lilies from the bottom to the top ot' the tank.

In a water-cooler an ice-receiving tank, a \vatel'-cooling chamber upon the bottom of said tank, and a downwardly tapered easing projeeting through the top of the tank vand the top of the cooling Chamber, the lower end of said casing bearing upon the bottom ofthe tank, that portion ofthe casing Within the cooling chamber heilig formed with outlet openings` the upper end of the caslng eonstltutlng a Support for a Water-supply .top of the tank, baffles radiating vessel,l the Wall of said casing extending along straight lines from the bottom to the lower end of the casing and Withm the .Cooling chamber, and baffles extending transversely Within the cooling chamber,'the1'e being an outlet from said chamber and the transverse batlles being interposed between the apertnred end of the casing and the outlet.4

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signaturev in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM-G. EADS, Witnesses 4 JEN N m M. Eos'mom, K. L. EADS.

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