US986859A - Refrigerator. - Google Patents

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatl, HERMAN Pines, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Michigan City, county ot' Laporte, and

State of Indiana, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Refrigerators,

of which the following is a specification,

and which is illustrated'in the accompanyingr drawings, forming apart thereof.

This invention relates to imprmements in refrigerators, being applicable as well to domestic refrigerators as to refrigerator ears, and its object is to improve the construction of devices of this character, especially with view to increasing the circulation of air through both the storage compartment and the 'ompartment for containingl ice or other cooling agent.

The invention consists in a structure such .20 as hereinafter described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. in which- Figure l is a transverse vertical sectional view ofa refrigerator car takenl through the storage compartment and looking toward the wall of the ice compartment: Fig. 2 is a detail longitudinal vertical section of the car through the ice compartment; Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of the partition separating, the two compartments of the car;

Fig. is a sectional view similarto Fig. l, showing a modified form ot construction; Fig. 5 is a verti al section of a domestic re frigerator 'taken through both its. storage and ice compartments; Fig. (5 is a vertical section of the same device taken through the storage compartiment and looking toward the -wall of the ice compartment. a portion of the wall being broken away; ig. 7 is a vertical transverse section of a ear body 40 showing a 'modified form of construction;

. and Fig. 8 'is a detail plan section on the line 8 8 of'Fig. 7.

Referrino' to Figs. 1 and 2, there is shown l fat 10, 10, die side walls, at 11 an end wall, at 12 the roof. and at, '13 the floor ot a refrigerator car. An ice lcompartment is designated 14, its charging door is shown at 15, and its ice-supporting'tioor at 1.6. The storage com artment of the car is designated as 17. he two compartments are separated by a partition within which are included tlues for promoting and Vstimulating,r the circulation of air. These tlucs lead from the storage compartment to the ice '.35 compartment, their openings into the latter nnrnronnmon,

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.beingdower 4than their openings from the former. Preferably, though not necessarily, these fines are inclined.

lThe partition separating the two compartments of thecar, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2

tlie builder may suggest; facing plates 21, 25, and inclined plates 26, 2, joining the facing plates and-adjacent uprights Openings are provided in both faces oifthe artition, the openings'in the vface toward the storage 'compartmentof the refrigerator beingr at the upper ends of the inclined plates 26, 27, and those in the. face toward the cooling compartment being at the lower ends of vSuch plates. As show-n, this arrangement of 'openings is provided by terminating'the plates .34 a short distance from the nprights, as 18, from which the plates 26, 2T, incline downwardly, and by terminating the plates 25 a short'distance from clined plates rise. Rigidity may be secured by bendingthe plates 2-1 to form an angle to fit the corner of the uprights, as 19, as plainly shown at 2S; and for the same reason the plates 24 are bent to cover a side face of the uprights from which they lead, 'as shown at Q9, and are further bent to overlap the front face of' the upright, that is to say, the face adjacent thc storage compartment, as shown at. 80. These plates may be secured to the uprights by means of nails or screws. The inclined platesare as shown at 31, and riveted to the facinr plates. "..lhese sid: tianges of the` inclined plates are preferably cut away opposite the openings in the artition. This construction of the partition provides iiues leading downwardly from the ystorage to the cooling` compartment and as air 'chilled in the draws the air from the storage compartment through these fines The circulation is further stimulated by the chilling ot' the air as 'it enters the tlues." As the' tempera` refri' erator is somewhat higher adjacent its si e' walls than remote therefrom, it is desirable to have o citings in the storage compartment side o the partition adjacent uprights being employed as the judgment' 0 and 3,comprjses a plurality or" uprights or ireferably flanged upwardly at their edges,

the uprights, as 1f). from which these incooling compartment tends to'descend, it 10G ture within the storage compartment of a the side walls and to this end, as shown by 11o car.

.the partition. These bars-merel the plete.. viniury by Contact of the contcntsio'lejia' i Similar cross-bars 33 protect therplates-Q dotted lines in Fig. l, `the artition fines extend downwardly from bot sides of the ln Figs. l and 2 there are shown' bars 32 crossing the storage compartmentjace of serve the purpose of protectinv from damage by the ice.` -f r In Fig. a thc bars formim the frexreworn of the partition, instead o eing npriolit-as in Figs. 1,9. and 3. are horizonta'has s own at 3ft-,and the facing plates 35, 36,.:1re similarly disposed, the openings from the storage compartment being at the topa of the plates and' the openings into the cooling compament being atthe bot-tomsu o the `plates 36. The inclined plates arceranged asf-in the other form of constructomand the manner of attaching the various-'pistesto the'eframing of the partition may be '-snbstantially the seme and need not, therefore, be shown and described in detail. This horizontalarrangement of the framing and facing plates has the adrantafre of providingontinuons openings entirely across the car and .which will receive the va 'ionsst-rata of air moving toward the cooling compartment without compelling lateral movement.

In refrigerator car construction it is desirable that access may be freely had to theV ice compartment for 'the purpose. of cleain ing, and to that end the partition separating the two compartments may beopenable.

Such form of lconstruction is illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8, wherein a portion of the partition is shown :is taking the Iorm of a pair of doors 54, 55, hinged adiacenti the side walls of the cargas shown at 5G, 57, 58, 59,

l and lmeeting at the median line of the car plates and with them constituting the fines.

The ini-'ention majY be applied to a domestic refrigerator in substantially the same manner as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, wherein the. side walls of such a device are shown its rear wall at 41 and its door at. 42. In

such :restructure the partition bet-Ween the' two compartments need not be strengthened by intermediate nprights or cross-bars. As shown, the framing of the partition comprises a lower sill 4.3, nprights 44, 45, atlthe ecosse rear and front of the refrigerator, and a cross-bar vt6 at. thetop of the refrigerator'. A. single facing plate 4:7 is shown as extending from the sill 43 to the cross-bar 4G on the storage compartment side of the partition, the edges of this plate being spaced apart from the nlnights 44, 45, to provide .peningsfor admission of air; and therc'is n pair of facing plates 48, 49, forming the acc of the partition directed 'toward Athe Y.cooling compartment., 'these plates extending respectively from the upright 44 and the .upright 45 toward but. not quite to the vertical median line of the partition. A. plurality of inclined plates 50, 51, as many as mayv be preferred, extend downwardly *from the upright 44, and a plurality of similar inclined plates 52, 53, extend downwardly from the. upright 45, the inner ends of the two sets of plates meeting at the median line of the partition. These various .plates may be Secured to the framework of the partition and to each other in a manner similar to that shown in Figs. l, Q and 3, and need l not be shown and described in detail.

I claim as my inventionl. A. refrigerator comprising a walled structure haring a hollow partition with offset openings in its faces and inclined fines connecting such openings and extending parallel with the surfaces of the partition.

2. In a refrigerator, a partition separating the compartment lor containing the cooling agent from the storage compart- .ment,.such partition comprising, in combination, studs or bars spaced apart, plates forming the faces of the partition, each plate being spaced apart from one of a pair Iof studs or bars, such spacing of opposing plates being out of register, and inclined tine plates fitting between such opposed plates.

3. In ay refrigerator. a partition comprising stads or bars, inclined plates connecting adjacent stads or bars and extending transverselr ofthe partition, and face plates, each 'extending From one stud or bar toward but spaced apart. from an adjacent stud or bar, the face plat-es of one side of the partition engaging the studs or bars at the lower ends of the inclined plates and those of the opposite side of the partition engaging the studs or bars at; the upper ends of the inclined plates.

1. ln a refrigerator. in combination, a walled structure. and a partition separating the interior of the structure into a storage chamber and a cooling chamber. and inclined l fines inclosed wit-hin the partition and cxat 3i', 38, its top at 39, and its bottom at 40,

tendingr parallel with its faces, such fines opening;r at their upper ends to the storage chamber and at their lower ends to the .cooling chamber.

5. A refrigerator comprising a storage chamber and an ica-chamber. tnepartition separating 'the two chambers having a door,

Vsuch door 'containing ail` Hines ext-ending pa'rpartments, the openin of each flue to the alle] with the surfaces of the door and openstora'ge chamber being igher than its open- 10 ing to both compartments'. ing to the icc chamber.

G. A. refrigerator comprising a b'toruge l Y HERMAN PRIES chamber and nn ice chamber, the partition l separating the two chambers having a door, fitnessesz such door containing :air fines extending par- JNU. W. CORLSON,

allel with its faces and opening to both coin- \V1LL1AM R. R. LUGG.

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