Improvements in Kitchen Safes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1900
CUMPLEIN DI PULTIVATION.
Improvements in Kitchen Safes.
I, FRIEDRICH GOTTHILF BÖTTCHER, of Windmühlenstrasse, Dresden, Saxony,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
The kitchen safes hitherto in use serve only for storing utensils, food, and
beverages, the two latter being especially subject to injury from the heat and
in order to prevent this, special ice or cooling safes have been employed but
such a kind of safe cannot be provided in many households in some cases owing
to the expense and in others to the want of a suitable place for it therefore
those who most require it have to do without it.
This invention relates to a kitchen safe designed for the use amongst others,
of people of moderate or small means whose places of residence are somewhat
small. Said kitchen safe is adapted for the storage of utensils, etcetera, as
usual and for cooling and keeping cool food and beverages and thus prevent
them from going bad.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a part sectional perspective view of
a kitchen safe of this invention and Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof.
In some respects the kitchen safe of the invention is very similar to those
in ordinary use as it comprises an underneath cupboard a with partitions b
and doors c and an upper cupboard d removable for the convenience of transport
from the underneath cupboard and provided with compartments and doors g, h,
but behind the usual back i a compartment is provided reaching from the
bottom of the cupboard a to the top of the cupboard d and having a back ¹.
In the compartment k is arranged a two part cooling casing made of sheet
metal, porcelain, stone ware or the like, the upper part of which is drawn
inwards at the bottom so that it may take into the upper end of the lower
part m the bottom of which is closed. This has for object to lead into the part m
the ice or water or cooling mixture or the like charged into the upper open
end of the part 7 and further to allow of disconnection and to prevent the ice
water from running on to the wood work of the compartment k.
cooling casing parts 1, m, are fitted with angle rails n on which shelves o in
the form of gratings may be laid and food and beverages placed thereon.
The two
Access is given to the cooling casing parts by doors p, q, in the same, and
access to these by doors r, s, in the wood work of the safe. is a flap which
is opened when ice or, the, like is to be supplied to the casing from the top,
at which time the shelves o are removed, or the ice may equally as well be
supplied through the doorways q, s, through which also bottles and the like may
be placed direct upon the ice for quicker and increased refrigeration of their
contents.
The cooling casing is provided at the bottom with an outlet v for the ice
water and preferably said casing is not so placed as to bear upon the wood
work of the safe but at some little distance from it as shewn to prevent jamming.

page_text: If it be desired to keep the front portion of the safe cool this may be done by
providing the partition with holes u through which the cooled air may enter
from the compartment k.
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:
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1. A kitchen safe with two main divisions, one for the reception of miscel-
laneous articles such as crockery and utensils, and the other for cooling food
and beverages which latter division is adapted to contain a cooling medium
such as ice, or water, or a cooling mixture, or the like, and is provided with
fittings for holding the articles to be cooled, substantially as described and
shewn.
2. A kitchen safe of the kind referred to, in which the container for the re-
ception of the cooling medium consists of a special casing placed in the safe
at some little distance from the wood work thereof to prevent jamming, sub-
stantially as described and shewn.
3. A kitchen safe of the kind referred to, in which the casing for the reception
of the cooling medium is made in two parts engaging one in the other and like
the two safe parts separable for the purpose of transport, substantially as
described and shewn.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
15, Tooks Court, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.