Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1887
Complete Left, 17th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1888.
MOSES STANBROOK, of 58 Cheldon Road, Fulham, Builder do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is for refrigerating or cold storage rooms for the pre-
servation of meat, game, fish, poultry or any like perishable article that may be required
to be kept in a dry cool room, for the purpose of preserving the article in its then
present condition.
My invention can be fitted up as a room or part of a room for refrigerating purposes
or it may be constructed in the form of a box, for the convenience of moving the same
from place to place according to the requirements.
My invention may be constructed with or without an outer case, according to the
purpose the refrigerator is intended for.
My invention is constructed by forming a box of wood, supported on legs, being
enclosed at the top and each of the sides, with the exception of one side which has an
opening on the top to permit the warm air to enter and descend downwards through
the ice, the whole of the interior is lined with zinc, the bottom portion on which the
ice rests on are provided with battens or pieces of wood running from end to end of
the box or refrigerator, to act as an open grating to permit the ice water to drip or
run through on to two or more series of rows of sloping drips, each row above one
another of zinc, from front to back angle shape, the point uppermost, placed in a row
to allow the water to run off into a series of sloping gutters V shape, constructed
underneath the said angle shaped drips, which slop towards the back portion of the
bottom of the refrigerator, the water being run into the main gutter constructed the
whole length of the back of the refrigerator, to carry the waste water off into a waste
pipe. The warm air enters at the top of the box and passes through the ice and
escapes at the bottom openings and is thereby perfectly purified of all impurities and
moisture of the room which would pass off with the waste ice water and the bottom of
the ice container being entirely open, I get a greater quantity of pure cold air with
the same quantity of ice, than can be obtained by the closed bottom refrigerators.
Dated this 17th day of May 1887.

page_text: I, MOSES STANBROOK, of 58 Cheldon Road, Fulham, in the County of Middlesex,
Builder, 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 object of my invention is for refrigerating or cold storage rooms, for the pre-
servation of meat, game, fish, poultry, or any like perishable article that may be
required to be kept in a dry cool room, for the purpose of preserving the article in its
then present condition.
My invention can be fitted up as a room, or part of a room for refrigerating pur-
poses, or it may be constructed in the form of a box, for the convenience of moving
the same from place to place, according to the requirements.
My invention may be constructed with or without an outer case, according to the.
purpose the refrigerator is intended for.
The refrigerator is constructed, by forming a box of wood supported on legs, being
enclosed at the top and each of the sides, with the exception of one or more sides,
which has one or more openings, at the top to permit the warm air to enter and
descend downwards through the ice, the whole of the interior of the apparatus is lined
with zinc, the bottom portion on which the ice rests on, are provided with battens, or
pieces of wood running from end to end of the bottom of the apparatus, to act as an
open grating to permit the ice water to drip or run through, on to two or more series
of sloping drips, each row above one another, constructed of zinc, running from front
to back, the said drips being angle shape flat or otherwise the point uppermost, placed
in a row, to allow the water to run off into a series of sloping gutters V shape, fixed
under the said angle shaped drips, the said gutters which slop towards the back
portion of the refrigerator, the water being run into the main gutter constructed the
whole length of the back of the apparatus, to carry the waste water off into a waste
pipe.
The ice is laid at the top of the wood battens or open grating and termed the ice
receptical.
The apparatus is provided with an opening at the top side to permit the warm air
to descend, and pass through the ice, and the open bottom or grating, and out at the
bottom.
Air spaces are provided between and above the drips, and gutters, these spaces
being regulated according to the size of the apparatus, which aforesaid apparatus may
be made any size or shape.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon..
Figure 1. represents a longitudinal section on line c, d, of the plan of the apparatus,
with the ice box or receptical marked O, being lined with zinc C, with the battens or

page_text: grating, at the bottom marked E, and the zinc drips J, the gutters K, and the main
gutter L, and the waste water pipe marked H, to discharge the water, and the legs I,
and the framing G and N.
Figure 2, denotes a transverse section on line a, b, of the plan of the apparatus,
each portion being described as on figure 1, with opening at the top front side
marked A, for the warm air to enter, and descend through the ice, and openings
in the bottom of the apparatus, these said openings being marked with arrows, the
front marked D.
Figure 3, represents a plan of the apparatus.
Like letters refer to like parts in each of the figures.
A the warm air opening at the top. B the top. C zinc lining. D front. E battens
or grating at the inside bottom of the apparatus. F framing. G framework. H water
waste pipe. I legs or supports. J the drips. K the gutters. L the main gutter.
N upright frame work. O ice receptical.
Having now fully described the nature and object of my invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I claim as new and novel the following:
First. The combination of the apparatus, for refrigerating cold storage rooms for
the preservation of meat, game, fish, poultry, or any like perishable article, substantially
herein described and according to the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. The combination of the apparatus, fitted up as a room, or a part of a
room, or constructed in the form of a box, for the convenience of moving the same,
substantially herein described and according to the accompanying drawings.
Thirdly. That I can make the apparatus any size or shape, with or without an outer
case, and constructed in any suitable kind of material, substantially herein described
and according to the accompanying drawings.
Fourthly. The combination of the apparatus fitted up with tiers of flat or any other
shape drips, singlely or otherwise, or with one or more gutters and constructed of a
moveable size, substantially herein described.