US1971002A - Refrigerator frame - Google Patents

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Aug. 21, 1934. R. E. GRAY REFRIGERATOR FRAME Filed Feb. 10, 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet l fiahardEG ay.

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REFRIGERATORYFRAME Filed Feb. 10, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE REFRIGERATOR FRAME Richard E. Gray, Jackson, Tenn., assignor to Piggly Wiggly Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio, a corporation of Delaware Application February 10, 1933, Serial No. 656,181

2 Claims. (01. 220-9) This invention relates to refrigerator cabinets members 10, 11 or 12, as is best shown in Figures and particularly to the frame and the insulating 3 and 7. From this construction it will be apstructure of the cabinet. parent that the interior of the cabinet is fully An object is to provide better heat insulation insulated against heat transfer between the 5 for such cabinets. As a means to this end one outer and inner walls of the cabinet. The frame purpose, is to provide new and improved frame structureprovides the necessary strength to the structure by. which better heat insulation is cabinet and is so insulated as to prevent heat secured. exchange through the walls of the cabinet.

Referring to the accompanying drawings While a particular construction of frame is which are made a part hereof and on which shown it should be obvious that the invention 65 similar reference characters indicate similar is not limited by the showing since the invention parts. resides broadly in providing a frame which may Figure l is a fragmentary perspective of th be insulated so that at no place in the wall is frame for the cabinet, there a direct connection through the frame be- Figure 2, a horizontal section, tween the lining and outer wall of the cabinet. 70

Figure 3, a side elevation with 'a portion shown It will be obvious to those skilled in the art in section, that various changes may be made in my de- Figure 4, a perspective view of a portion of the Vice Without departing from the Spi it Of the frame for th bin t, invention and therefore I do not limit myself to Figure 5, t o on line 5 5 f Figure 1, what is shown in the drawings and described 75 Figure 6, a section on line 66 of Figure 1, in the specification, but only as indicated by the Figure 7, an enlarged view of the ti appended claims.

shown in Figure 1, and 7 Having thus fully described my said inven- Figure 8, a sectio on li 3 g of Figure 7 tion, what I claim as new and desire to secure In t drawings numeral 10 indicates hori by Letters Patent, is:- 8

zontal frame portions and 11 upright frame por- A refrigerator cabinet Comprising a base t t lower ends f which fit Within and formed of a plurality of horizontal bars arranged are Secured t t horizontal fr members in rectangular formation, vertical bars positioned 10 as by means of pins or nails 13. Lateral on the inner vertical surfaces of said horizonframe members 12 are secured in and between tal bars, a casing secured to the outside surfaces opposing upright, members 11 by nails or pins as of said horizontal bars, a plurality of lateral shown, The top and bottom of the Cabinet will bars connected tosaid vertical bars being spaced be of t Same t t such as that shown in from the bottom surfaces of said horizontal bars, perspective in Figure 1. Suitable insulating maa lining Securedto the inner Surfaces of said terial 14 is placed within and nfi d between vertical and said lateral bars and insulating maan inner metallic lining l8 and an outer casing FP positioned between said casing and Said 19' The insulating material may be and pref lining around said bars, substantially as set erably is cork. This cork may be in finely forth" divided form and packed in or secured together A refngeraftor cabltlet comprising horizon by a Suitable binding material or may be in tal frame portions having uprights secured at sheet form. The insulating material will an in ends the inner Vertical surfaces 0f Said as a Solid Sheet the Space confined Within the horizontal frame portions, lateral members selower frame members 10 between the bottom cured to and between said uprights.being spaced of the casing 19 and will fill in the spaces formed from the Pottom sulfaces of Sald honzontal by the lateral members 12. When the insulating frame portlons a casmg S's-cured the outside material has been applied within and about the and.bottom.sl.1rfaces of Sam horizontal frame frame work it will be apparent as may be seen portlons, a hmng secured to the inner surfaces from Figures 3 and 7 that the interior of the lateral membeltgand sald uprigmjs 1 50 cabinet is insulated from the outside wall by ifi matellal positioned between said lina thickness of insulating material which is at f i :fi he framewolk substan' least half the total insulating material between y as Se or the lining 18 and the outer wall 19, i. e. at no RICHARD GRAY place in the wall of the cabinet is the insulating 55 material thinner than the width of one of the 10

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