US994163A - Refrigerator. - Google Patents

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APPLICATION TILED 00114, 1909,

G. A. IGKES.

REFRIGERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED 001.14, 1909.

Patented Julie 6, 1911.

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GEORGE TUTJKIEEJ, (3F ALTOONA, PENIN'SYLVANIA, ABSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, lift) SIIJMA. ICIHIEIS, 0F ALTOONA, PENN' 'YLVANIA REFRIGERAT UR.

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cot, hat a practical enwodiment is companying di'awin in WI, ich---- Figure 1 a, go. "ai sectional pm View oi the e; the eppat'atue. Fig; 2 i ,1" View of the drinking Water fl eniipl to sew o i together with w e ch-inhi p, Wand and n cup. i if a, ti-o 1 view out the valve device ehown in i i Fig. 4 is a detaii of the valve opera, ltnandle.

Like references designate eon" pants in. the several figures of the d i'tHV' Referring to the accompanying tlra rviitigs the number. 1.0 deeigiilatce the inlet pipe connected with th city water 3 titted with av atop con 15. pro" ei'ehly vlocotehin the cellar 01 hast nent of the imiiding W :WB'il'i this device is il'istrillled. Above the out oi'i valve or stop cock 1.1. the Water paseee tl'irough the pipe tion 12 into a 'coa-l or equivalent filtering; device 13 T filter 13 is Shownouteide the refrigerator in order to show the pipe lines more clearly, out it is the purpose of the inventor to place t" $peoifieetion of Letters Patent,

Applleetion filed 0mm 14, lacs.

position he vice inside the refrigerator when 55 pcrmiteofsnchinstallation, After l' atented J'tme 6, 1911. s rial No. $322,645.

has left the filter '13 it passes tln'ongl'l the pipe section iii: into the coil of piping 1t", at-

1 within and about the ice box 15 of the ieifi'igerator casing 16. This refrigerang is provided with the usual lid 1.7 e t1" or shelves 155, having suitable sn 'iporting elements associated therewith. The coil oi imipin ywi 'iin the ice box or ohainhei' also includes a section lying at the bottom of the ice chamber, and from this hottoni coil the Water successively pthrou h the separate shelf c0115 19 and 20 arranged within the separate refrigerator compartments above the shelves th-roin, so are; to expose a l'i'mxin'mm surface of piping. The coil at the bottom of the piping s Y ieln is pron "(led with a valved. draw off con11ec ti" HL, to permit the s mm to be drained.

he ingpor, il'llfilt'l'leiihjte and lower pipe coils are connected to a three vay draw off 75 valve 522 through the pipe sections and ITQSI'MC'iIlVGlY. The valve is providt'ail. with a ca "n 6, and valve proper 27 and an ope 'atang handle 28 which is pro 1 l with a n-ojection on its lmver edge nod to n key with suitable il'idicating i'lns oz: poin on the face of the valve The valve is constructed to fit casing 26, and capable of being r0- i by the operating handle 28 to various termined positions, each position poi communication between one system of (:05

and. ti. )igot 32; from which drink-- i, discharged into the drinking 33, th teaipeii'atnre of the drinking 37!? which Will he obtained for each definite marked on the dish 31 ofthe mivchody;

iii? it .lfi found that the Water in the bottom eoil of the ice boxis too cold for drinking purposes, provision is nade at 34 Whereh a section can connect thie tee "it to the ten nipple 2 1 of the opera! 1;; valve, Nfltll at a ter 'ierrature Chg-Ml; e11 than that obtained in the liottoin of the ice box.

The Valve aa ilh'leti'ated in Fig. 2 shows the position of the handle 28 whenpthe spigot it; closed and the cii'cuiation being in progiVhen the handle is; moved down 45 Water will be drawn from the bottom coil in the retrigeratm? whoee contents are higher in ten'lpei'a taro than any other coil. On movement of the operating handle down through. an are of 510 Water froife. the middle coil of the ice box or chamber will be delivered to the drinking cup 33 through the spigot 32, and on movement of 45 upward water will be drawn from the top of the section 36 to a drain tank or box 37 located beneath the refrigerator and connected with a trap 38 that leads to the sewer. The bottom coil 20 is provided with a'sto cock 21 and'drain section 40 which enab s the operator to drain the entire s stem. The pans and trays are also provide with a system of drains which communicates through a pipe section 41 to the drain box which is connected to the sewer.

Itwill be seen without further detailed description that the system is perfectly sanitary, allowing the drinking water to be drawn at' a number of temperatures, and providing means whereby the entire system may be flushed and the impurities washed into the sewer beneath.

By this system of construction, we put the laws of hydrostatic motion into force and operation, thereby establishing a refrigerat-' ing system as wellas a sanitary cold water supply. This system is ap licable to any and all cold storage and re rigeration systemssuch as meat markets, produce or meat cars in transit, cold storage plants or in vespipe sections andcomprising means folfin v any one of the sameat a time; v

2. In a refrigerator, a casing havln a dividually establishing communication with plurality of compartments, water'circu at;

mg pipe coils in communicationwith each a other and respectively arranged in the sesarate compartments, a multi-wayvalve a vice having draw ofi' connections with dif-' ferent coils in the system, a commonv drain tank, and means for draining the pipe coils into the said tank, and means for carrying the drainage from said valve device into said tank. y

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses,

GEORGE A. IoKEs,

Witnesses:

M. A. ROWAN, J. P. TROUCH.

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