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Description

(No Model.)

F. H. TYRUMBULL.

WATER COOLER FUR REFRIGERATORS.

No. 589,377. Patented Aug. 31,1897.

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FRANK H. TRUMBULL, OF PALMYRA,*NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO lV. J. HENNESSY, OF SAME PLACE. l

WATER-COOLER FOR REFRIGERATORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,377, dated August 31, i897. Application filed March 2, 1896l Serial No. 581,546. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, FRANK H. TRUMBULL, a resident of Palmyra, in the county of Wayne and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators; and I do hereby declare the rfollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and ro use the same.

The invention relates to apparatus for :refrigerating liquids, and has for its object to increase their efficiency and economy; and it consists in the construction hereinafter del scribed and particularly pointed out.

2o or reservoir,vvhich may be of any desired form` in horizontal section, and 2 indicates filling between the parallel Walls adapted to prevent the conduction of heat.

3 indicates a removable cover alsoprovided with a non-conducting lling.

3' indicates a door in the side of the refrigerator.

Air-fines are provided in one or more corners of the vessel by partitions 4, which are 3o shorter than the depth of the interior of the refrigerator and so disposed that air can enter each iiue at the bottom and pass upwardly and out at the upper end of the partition into the main chamber. These partitions extend 3 5 across the corners and are attached to the adjacent walls, thus inclosing dues which owing to their situation do not practically or seriously diminish the capaci ty of the refrigerator. They permit comparatively Warm air 4o displaced by that which is colder to ascend without passing up through the main chamber, where are situated the objects to be refrigerated.

1i denotes air-inlets into the lues inolosed by the partitions 4. p

5 denotes a grate, preferably made removable, situated in' the lower part of the refrigerator.

If desired, a grate G may also be used to 5o supportice,food, or other articles. Said grate G may consist of a pipe-coil connected with a lower coil, as shown. Ice or other'articles can be placed directly on the pipe-coil, if desired.

7 indicates an inlet-pipe for water or other 55 liquid. This pipe communicates with a source of supply and may pass up through the bottom Wall of the refrigerator and extend above the lower grate and be formed into a coil 7. The other end of said coil extends out through 6o the refrigerator-Wall and is there provided with a faucet @substantially as illustrated.

As shown in Figs. l and 2, the liquid-supplyin g pipe 7 enters through the bottom of the refrigerator and through the drip-receptacle 8, which may be so constructed and arranged that the cold drip 4surrounds. the pipe and overiiows said receptacle and flows down the :pipe into other Water-holders or overflow-receptacles placed about the pipe and provided 7o in some cases with absorbent material, the arrangement being such that the cold dripwater from` the refrigerator is made to cool the inlet-pipe and iniiowin g liquid before they enter the refrigerator.

9 denotes a faucet for drawing water directly from or from near the refrigeratingn coil, and 10 is a branch or ,cut-off pipe leading more directly from the inletfpipe to the same faucet, said faucet having a three- 8o way cock the ports of which are so constructed and arranged that it will permit the discharge of comparatively warm Water from the inlet-pipe through said branch pipev or will close or cut off said pipe and permit cold Water 8 5 to be drawn from the coil.

In practice ice may be placed immediately upon the coil in the lower part of the refrigerator, which coil can be supported upon the grate or in any suitable manner. 9o

If preferred, ice can be placed on an upper grate and the entire surface of the coil used for the support of articles to be refrigerated.

The drip from the ice of refrigerators leaves them at their coldest plane and is usually nearly ice-cold. The described arrangement for utilizing this cold Waste water for cooling the inlet-pipe is an economical one, and the efiiciency of this part of the cooliu g operation is much increased by the overflow and abroo sorbent devices indicated. These devices may be of the simplest form, and it is only necessary that the drip shall be held for a suliicient time in contact with the inlet-pipe, and cloths, Sponges, sand, or other capillary material can be used to advantage.

The precise arrangement of pipes is not essential, provided substantially the same objects are secured in practically the same Way.

I am aware that in the application of a pipe to convey liquid through a refrigerator said pipe has been provided with a housingA filled with gravel and arranged to receive the drip from the refrigerator, and I do not claim devices for utilizing' the drip from a refrigerator except as hereinafter particularly pointed out. By my construction the inlet-pipe is provided ivi th overl-10W cups or basins containing capillary matter. The drip-pipe extends below the upper edge of the upper basin to seal the refrigerator, and the bottom of the basin is provided with fibrous or like capillary matter depending therefrom and surrounding the Water -inlet pipe. By these means not only is the refrigerator sealed, as usual, but the sealing-cup is utilized to hold both Within and without capillary matter, which prolongs the contact of the cold drip with the pipe. Preferably one or more cups are employed below the sealing-cup. The

capillary matter is exposed to the air and favors the evaporation of the ldrip, thereby adding to the refrigerating effect.

Having described my invention, what I claim is l. A refrigerator, aWater-pipe passing into the same through its dripoutlet, a sealingeup surrounding the pipe adjacent the said outlet and filled With capillary material, and having capillary material connected to its eX- terior to conduct the drip along the pipe be loW the said sealing-cup, substantially as described.

2. A refrigerator, a Water-pipe passing into the same through its drip-outlet, a sealingcup surrounding the pipe adjacent the said outlet and filled with capillary material, and having capillary material connected to its exterior to conduct the drip along the pipe below the said sealing-cup,and a secon d cup connected to said inlet-pipe and provided with capillary material, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of tivo subscribing Witnesses.

FRANK II. TRUMBULL. Vitnesses:

.Toi-IN W. FRAHER, JAMES TANELL.

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