US916749A - Cooler. - Google Patents

Description

V. J. METZGER.

COOLER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 29. 1908.

Patented Mar. 30, 1909.

anoanfoz UNIFED VERIUS .l. METZGEK, OF MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

COOLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 29, 1908. Serial No. 429,902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, citizen of the United States. residing; at Milton, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Coolers. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coolers. the object invicw being to provide a practical and inexpensive cooler for water. beer and the like, the construction adapting the liquid to be thoroughly chilled and cooled by merely passing such liquid through the cooler as will hereinafter appear. I

\Vith theabove general object in view. the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arr; nnement-of parts as herein fully describeth illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings l igure l is a perspective view of a cooler embodying the present invention. the same being shown partly broken away in section. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the liquid containing element of the cooler.

'lhe cooler contemplated in this invention comprises essentially an ice box 1 which is preferably of the double walled construction illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. In other words the body of the cooler comprises an outer wall 2 and an inner wall 3 the space between which is packed with any suitable material t of low heat and cold conductivity so as to insulate the interior of the box from the outside atmosphere.

The cooler is also provided with a re movable lid or cover a to give access to the ice compartment thereof. the latter being; disconnected at 6.

The liquid containing coolerconsists of a plurality of members each comprising an upper tubular head 7, a lowertubulaifl base 8 and a hollow plate or. web 9 connecting the cap and base and providing a chilled surface of large. are; and a water space of narrow confines against which the ice or ice compartment 6 is adapted to bear. By reference to Figs. 2 and 3 it will be observed that two of such water containing members are illustrated and that the same are connected in line with the upper tubular heads 7 by means of an elbow 10 or other tubular connection while the lower element of the l t l l l l t l l l t tubular bases 8 are disconnected as shown in Ynmis J. n'ln'rzcnn, a i Fig. 3 the adjacent ends thereof being scaled by stopper or plugs 11. The outer end of one of the outer tubular bases 8 is left open as shown at 12 to receive an inlet. nipple 13 by means of which water is introduced into the water containing element of the cooler. The base section of the other water containing clement communicates with a corresponding nipple 14: which passes through the adjacent wall of the cooler and has connected a delivery faucet 15.

16 designates an ice water drain cock for draining oil the water from the ice coi'npartment 6. Under the arrangement shown in l igs. and 3, two sides of the ice compartment are occupied by the water containing element of the cooler or in other words, two water containing members are arranged at right angles to each other so as to lie in close proximity to the corresponding inner walls of the ice compartment, the ice bears directly against the tubular heads and bases and also against the hollow plates or webs 9. The

Patented March 30, 1909.

water entering one of the tubular bases 8 is thin sheet or film,'whereby it is more quickly chilled in its passage through the cooler.- When the water reaches the tubular head 7 of the first member it is then passed through the connection 10 into the head 7 of the next member, thence downward through the shallow hollow plate or web into the tubular base 8 of the second member and thence outward through the delivery faucet. In this way the water is subjected to a thorough cooling action by contact with the hollow plates or webs of the water containing element, whereby the mere passage 0 the water through the cooler induces the thorough chilling of the same to a point nearly as low as the temperature of the ice itself.

A cooler comprising an ice box, and a water containing element mounted therein and embodying a plu 'ality of members each comprising a tubulanhead, a tubular base, and a hollow plate or web connecting the head and base and forming a thin water conducting space between said tubular base, the tubular part of one member being placed in direct communication with the corhead and respondin member w out off from communication, whereby the water is caused to traverse one of the members in one direction and the succeeding member in the OgPOSitG directlon, substantigil'ly as describe 'In testimon whereof I :iflix my signature in. presence 0 two witnesses.

VERIUS J. METZGER.

Witnesses: Y

I. F. Damn, WM. )3. WENDLE.

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