Improvements in Receptacles for Use when Preserving Provisions by the Aid of Ice.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left. 27th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 5th May, 1804
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Receptacles for Use when Preserving Provisions
by the Aid of Ice.
I FREDERICK WILLIAM GOLBY of 36 Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention as
communicated to me by Emma Feuerherd of Coswig, Anhalt, in the Empire of
Germany, Daughter of a Manufacturer, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to receptacles for use when preserving provisions by the
aid of ice and has for its object to prevent the provisions coming into contact with
the cooling material. According to this invention the receptacle is formed of three
compartments, a top, a middle, and an undermost compartment. Between the top
compartment which is to be filled with the provisions to be preserved and may be
closed by its cover, and the middle one, there is interposed a sieve bottom. The
interior of the middle receptacle is divided by a circular wall into an inner and an
outer space, the outer of which is filled with a non-conducting material, and the
inner space with ice. That part of the middle receptacle which is situated below
the inner space, is provided with a number of holes so as to form a sieve in order
that the melted ice water may fall into the lower compartment, which may if desired
be provided with an outlet for the same.
Dated this 27th day of June 1893.
AARDYT
F. W. GOLDY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Receptacles for Use when Preserving Provisions
by the Aid of Ice.
I FREDERICK WILLIAM GOLBY of 36 Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention as
communicated to me by Emma Feuerherd of Coswig, Anhalt, in the Empire of
Germany, Daughter of a Manufacturer, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :
This invention relates to a receptacle or pot to be used as a substitute for the ice
cupboards at present in use, the invention being such as to render it possible to
preserve provisions longer and with greater economy of ice than could hitherto be
done. The ice receptacle or ice pot consists in certain features of construction and
combination of parts hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawing-Figure 1 shews a vertical section of the ice pot
and Figure 2 an elevation of the same; similar letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts.
A is the top receptacle, B is the middle receptacle, C is the undermost receptacle,
Dis the cover of the top receptacle, E is the sieve bottom top receptacle, F is the
space occupied by the non-conductor, G is the ice receptacle, H is the sieve bottom
of chamber G, J is the outlet for the melted ice water.
The new ice pot is represented in the drawings as consisting of three round pots
fitted one above the other A B C, made of earthenware, glass, china or stoneware,
protected by the cover D placed on the top of the upper pot A from the influx of
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page_text: the temperature dominating round about the ice pot. The upper receptacle A used
for the reception of provisions is provided with a sieve bottom E in order that
the eatables therein preserved may be exposed as much as possible to the ice
temperature but not brought into direct contact with the ice itself, which is seldom
quite clean.
The middle receptacle B which is divided into two round concentric chambers G
and F by a circular transverse wall, rests on the undermost receptacle C.
Whilst the middle chamber G of the receptacle B receives the ice, the space F
around is intended for the reception of fossil meal (the non-conductor) by the use
of which a slow melting of the ice is aimed at. The water which flows away through
the sieve bottom H of the ice chamber G is caught by the undermost pot C and
can be let off at will through the outlet J. The device is very simple and
comparatively inexpensive.
In some cases the cover D may be also of such a shape that it can be filled with
ice, that is to say, it is provided with a bottom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
A pot for preserving provisions by the aid of ice, consisting in an ice receptacle
made of earthenware, glass, china, or stoneware, characterized by three round
receptacles A B C placed one above the other; of which the uppermost A
provided with a sieve bottom E receives the provisions, the middle one B having
two circular chambers, receives in its inner chamber G the ice, and in the outer
chamber F a filling of fossil meal, and the undermost C catches the water which
flows through the sieve bottom H of the chamber G, substantially as described.
Dated this 27th day of March 1894.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.