Poulterers' Use and for Analogous Purposes.
Year: 1885

page_text: Poulterers' Use and for Analogous Purposes.
I, ANDREW GREIG ANDERSON of 106 George Street, Edinburgh, in the County of
Midlothian, North Britain, Fishmonger do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention for AN IMPROVED ICE SAFE SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR FISHMONGERS'
AND POULTERERS' USE AND FOR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES to be as follows:-
This Invention, which relates to a new or improved ice safe specially adapted
for fishmongers' and poulterers' use and for analogous purposes such as in Hotels,
Butchers' shops and other places where fish, poultry, game, meat and other victuals
are kept or stored, has for its object to preserve such victuals over a considerable
period by maintaining them at a sufficiently low temperature.
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The safe consists of a casing of non-conducting material preferably wood and
fitted with one or more doors in the front, for opening and closing the safe. Such
doors are by preference fitted with sheets of glass so as to permit the interior of
the safe to be seen into when the door or doors is or are shut. The ends of the
safe are provided with vertical metallic casings which are charged with ice and
these casings are fitted at the bottom with one or more pipes [provided with
cesspools which enable the water resulting from the melting of the ice to
gradually flow off the cesspools keeping the pipes sealed. Besides fitting the
ends of the safe with casings for containing ice, the whole or the part or parts
of the back of the safe may also be similarly fitted and provided with a pipe
and cesspool for taking off the water of liquifaction of the ice. The interior of
the safe is or may be fitted with shelves of wood, slate, glass or other suitable
material and it may be provided with hooks for suspending poultry, game or joints
of meat therein.

page_text: Poulterers? Use and for Analogous Purposes.
I, ANDREW GREIG ANDERSON of 106 George Street, Edinburgh, in the County of
Midlothian, North Britain, Fishmonger do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for AN IMPROVED ICE SAFE SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR FISHMONGERS' AND
POULTERERS USE AND FOR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My Invention, which relates to a new or improved ice safe specially adapted for
Fishmongers' and Poulterers' use and for analogous purposes such as in Hotels,
Butchers', Ham Curers', Butter Merchants, Grocers and Dairymen's shops, private
bouses and other places where fish, poultry, game, meat and other victuals are kept
or stored, has for its object to preserve such victuals over a considerable period by
maintaining them at a sufficiently low temperature.
The safe consists of a casing of non-conducting material preferably wood and
fitted with one or more doors, in the front, for opening and closing the safe. Such
doors are by preference fitted with sheets of glass so as to permit the interior of
the safe to be seen into when the door or doors is or are shut. The ends of the
safe are provided with vertical metallic casings which are charged with ice and
these casings are fitted at the bottom with one or more pipes provided with
cesspools which enable the water resulting from the melting of the ice to gradually
flow off the cesspools keeping the pipes sealed. Besides fitting the ends of the
safe with casings for containing ice, the whole or the part or parts of the back of
the safe may also be similarly fitted and provided with a pipe and cesspool for
taking off the water of liquefication of the ice. The interior of the safe is or may
be fitted with shelves of wood, slate glass or other suitable material and it may be
provided with hooks for suspending poultry game or joints of meat therein.
In order that my said Invention may be properly understood and readily carried
into effect, I will now proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1, is a front elevation of an ice safe as constructed in accordance with
and constituting my present Invention.
Figures 2 and 3 are respectively a vertical section and a horizontal section of
the same.
The safe, as constructed under my present Invention, consists of the casing a,
of non-conducting material preferably wood and fitted with one or more doors b, in
the front for opening and closing the safe. The doors b, are fitted with sheets c,
of glass so as to permit the interior of the safe to be seen into when the said door
or doors b, is or are shut. The ends of the safe are provided with the vertical
metallic casings d, which are charged with ice as indicated at e, at Figures 2 and 3°
of the annexed drawings, and these casings d, are fitted at the bottom with one or
more pipes f, provided with the cesspools g, which enable the water resulting from
the melting of the ice, to gradually flow off, the cesspools keeping the pipes f,
sealed. Over the upper ends of the pipes f, the gratings h, are situated so that

page_text: small particles of ice are prevented from falling into the said pipes. Besides fitting
the ends of the safe with the casings d, for containing ice, the whole or part or
parts of the back of the said safe may also be similarly fitted and provided with
a pipe f, and cesspool g, for taking off the water of liquefaction of the ice. The
interior of the safe is or may be fitted with the shelves i, of wood, slate, glass or
other suitable material and it may be provided with hooks (not shown on the
drawings) for suspending poultry, game or joints of meat therein.
The ice may be charged into the casings d, at the top by removing the lids or
covers j, or in any other convenient manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
.
An ice safe whose body or principal part is constructed of wood or other non-
conducting material the door or doors b, whereof, is or are fitted with glass c, so as
to permit the interior of the safe to be at all times inspected without nécessitating
the opening of the said door or doors and the combination of such arrangement
with the ice casings d, and cesspools g, all substantially as and for the purposes
herein before set forth with reference to the annexed drawings.
Deted this sightsouth dass of Cantamhau 1005