Improvements in Refrigerators.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Refrigerators.
I, EDWARD WILLOWS of No. 188 Shaftesbury Avenue in the County of
Middlesex Refrigerator Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in refrigerators
in which the ice is contained in a receptacle mounted or formed in the upper part
of or above the space provided for reception of the articles to be kept cool as
described in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 7481 granted to me and
bearing date the 19th day of May 1888.
The object of my said improvements is to prevent accumulation of moisture on
the underside of the tray mounted below the ice receptacle for the reception of the
water resulting from the melting of the ice in the said receptacle which accumulation
of moisture objectionable and is produced by condensation of vapour in the air
within the refrigerator and occurs when the doors thereof are allowed to remain
open unnecessarily and when the ice receptacle is not sufficiently charged with ice.
For the purpose of preventing the said accumulation of moisture I place or
secure a perforated tray in the ice receptacle on which tray or on a wooden support
placed in which tray the ice rests. I prefer to make the said tray of sheet zinc
and of rectangular form and I prefer to make the perforation or perforations
therein over or nearly over the outlet or outlets of the tray mounted below the ice
receptacle. I however do not limit myself to any particular number of the said
perforations or to any particular position thereof. I also prefer to turn the edges
of the said perforations or holes downward. Through these perforations or holes
the water resulting from the melting of the ice passes in drops onto the tray
mounted below the ice receptacle.
Dated the 14th day of December 1892.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Refrigerators.
I EDWARD WILLOWS of No. 188 Shaftesbury Avenue in
Middlesex, Refrigerator Manufacturer do hereby declare the
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
the County of
nature of this
be particularly
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in refrigerators
in which the ice is contained in a receptacle mounted or formed in the upper part
of or above the space provided for reception of the articles to be kept cool as
described in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 7481 granted to me and
bearing date the 19th day of May 1888.
The object of my said improvements is to prevent accumulation of moisture on
the underside of the tray mounted below the ice receptacle for the reception of the
water resulting from the melting of the ice in the said receptacle which accumulation
of moisture is objectionable and is produced by condensation of vapour in the air
within the refrigerator and occurs when the doors thereof are allowed to remain
open unnecessarily and when the ice receptacle is not sufficiently charged with ice.
For the purpose of preventing the said accumulation of moisture place or
secure a perforated tray in the ice receptacle on which tray or on a wooden support
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page_text: placed in which tray the ice rests. I prefer to make the said tray of sheet zinc
and of rectangular form and I prefer to make the perforation or perforations
therein over or nearly over the outlet or outlets of the tray mounted below the ice
receptacle. I however do not limit myself to any particular number of the said
perforations or to any particular position thereof. I also prefer to turn the edges
of the said perforations or holes downward. Through these perforations or holes
the water resulting from the melting of the ice passes in drops onto the tray
mounted below the ice receptacle.
The accompanying drawings illustrate portions of a refrigerator to which my
said invention is applied
Figure 1 being a plan of the refrigerator without the cover and
Figure 2 a vertical section of the upper part of the refrigerator the section being
taken on the line A Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a section of a portion of the tray within the ice receptacle drawn to
a larger scale than the other figures the said section being taken through one of the
holes by which water passes from the tray.
In the said figures the tray shown within the ice receptacle is of rectangular
form and has a hole or perforation formed in it near each of its corners and within
the said tray is shown a support for the ice consisting of a rack formed of bars of
wood secured together crosswise and at a slight distance apart. My said invention
is however not restricted to the precise details illustrated in the said drawings as
will be understood from the statements herein before contained.
In the following description the said figures are referred to by the letters marked
thereon. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures of
the drawings.
a is the upper part of the case of the refrigerator. 6 is the metal lining of the
said part of the case. c (see Figure 2) is the cover of the said case. The ice
receptacle which is formed of metal bars d d is supported within the case a by
means of hooks e e secured to the said case. fis the tray below the ice receptacle
which tray is suspended from the said receptacle by means of wires gg secured to
the said tray and hooked at their ends. is a pipe by which water from the ice
passes from the said tray f. i is the perforated tray within the ice receptacle.
jj are the perforations in the said tray i and k is the wooden support on which the
ice rests. The section of the tray i shown in Figure 3 clearly exhibits the form of
the edges of the perforations in the said tray.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements herein before described in refrigerators of the construction
herein before referred to that is to say the arrangement of a perforated tray within
the ice receptacle of such a refrigerator substantially as and for the purpose
described.
Dated the 12th day of Contambam 1402
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.