USD4274S - Design for a refrigerator and water-cooler - Google Patents

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BCDI HVHILHLC L/UVY in'teti si ,tetes CHARLES G. SAVERY, OE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

\ Design No. 4,274, dated August 2, 1870.

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DESIGN FOR A REFRIG-BRA'IOR AND WATER-COOLER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom liL 'may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES G. Saveur, of the city and county of Philadelphia, and Stat-e of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and original Design for a- Refrigerator and Tater-Cooler; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of this specification- Figure l being a view of the refrigerator in perspective;

Figure S2, a central longitudinal vertical section thereof;

Figure 3, a transverse vertical section of the same through the ice-chamber and water-tank.

Like letters designate correspomling parts in all of the tigures.

The refrigerator' is composed of a rectangular iron box, A, enmneled on the inside, surrounded and inclosed by a pine, or other kind of wooden case, B, with a suitable non-conducting air-space and packing hetween. rfhe box has an opening in one end or one side, fora door, C, and an opening Vin a part of the top, to gain admission to the ice-chamber l), watertank E, and a separate milk and butter-chamber, Cr. Or there maybe a door in front, for each ot` the cham bers G, H.

The ice-chamber D extends across the whole width and depth of the enameled box A, dividing it into two compartments or chambers, namely, the said milk and butter-chamber G, and the main rcfrigeratingchamber H. lhe milk and lmtter-ehamber is quite narrow, as shown, so as to leave as much room as possible in the main chamber H.

The ice-chamber is either of galvanized or enameled iron, and fits the sides and bottom of the enameled box A closely, and may be secured therein either by soldering 01` rivets; and it may be secured to the top ofthe box by ianches a a. 1t is preferably made narrower at the bottom than at the top, so that the ice will not settle down so fast, and in order that the drip from the ice may run down its sides, and assist in cooling the same; or it can bc made of uniform width.

The water-tank E is a separatelyfmade vessel, of iron, enameled on both surfaces, inside and outside. It is made of the proper size to lit into the ice-chamber at one end, occupying only a comparatively small part of the length thereof, and reaching down about one-half of the depth of the same, more or less. The water is drawn from it through a pipe, o, which extends laterally through the ice-chamber to, and thence through, the side of the refrigerator, and terminates outside with a spigot, d, whereby the water is drawn. This pipe not only is cooled by extending through the ice-chamber, but in this way can pass through theside of the enameled box, and make a tight joint with a jam-nut and washer, or otherwise. No ice is putin the water-tank, but the water is cooled by the tank being inside of the ice-chamber, in contact with the icc.

Just over the pipe e a shelf or grate, f, is placed in thc irc-chamber, to support the ice. Itis scalloped on its edges, or otherwise formed so as not to tit closely io the sides of the chalnber, in order that the water from the melting of the icc may trickle down the sides of the chamber, and thereby increase theret'rigerating effect. Instead of simple icc, a mixture of ico and common salt, or other freezing mixture, used in the icc-chamber, greatly enhances the rcfrigerating power, so that moisture condensed on the surface ot' the ice-chan'iber, in the chambers G and H, is frozen. The water from the melted ice is drawn off through a pipe, yi, and spigot t, at one end of or under the refrigerator.

The top of the box A is not only enamelel on the inside, but for a littledistaneearonnd the top opening also, on the outside, so that no rusting ofthe iron may take place from the water and moisture of thc ieechambcr and water-tank.

There are metallic covers, in, n, o, to the ice-chamber, water-tank, and the milk and butter-chamber, and above thorn is an air-space, and then a wooden eower, p, in the top of the refrigerator case, tinsh therewith on top.

That 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

lhe design for a refrigerator, as represented and described.

CHARLES C. SAVERY.

Witnesses Jos. H. Cuneo, (l. W. Gnosis.

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