Untitled record

Application filed October 27, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Bernhard Moebius, of Chihuahua, Mexico, have invented a new and Improved Refrigerator, of which the fol5 lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved refrigerator for cooling the contents of bottles, cans, or other vessels, or cooling liquids or gases passing through pipes.

io The invention consists in a fibrous bag or covering to be passed over a bottle or other vessel, part of the said covering extending into a liquid which is absorbed by the fibers and is evaporated, thereby cooling the contents of the vessel.

The invention also consists in details and parts of construction, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying 20 drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corsponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved refrigerator. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal 25 sectional elevation of the same and a bottle contained in the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same, showing it surrounding a can. Fig. 4 is a modification of the same, showing it applied on a pipe.

The refrigerator is constructed of two bags or sacks. A and A', made of cotton or other fibrous material having great capillary powers, the sack A' being contained within the sack A. A series of eyes, «, are secured in 35 each bag or sack near the upper edge, and through the eyes a of each sack or bag a separate cord, B or B', is passed, the cords alternately resting against the inner and outer surfaces of the sacks or bags. A cup, 0, adapted to receive the bottom of a bottle, D, or can E, &c., is held by hooks F and chains G to the outer sack, A', the said hooks permitting of attaching or detaching the cup very easily. The bags A A' are sewed together at 45 b about one-third of theheight from the top, to prevent the ice, &c.,. from dropping down to the bottom of the space between the bags. The bottle D, containing the liquid to be cooled, is placed into the inner' bag, A', and the up50 per end of the said inner bag is drawn closely around the neck of the bottle by means of the cord B^z. The space between the sacks or bags A and A'is filled with cracked ice J at the neck of the bottle, and then the upper end of the sack or bag A is drawn together by means 55 of the cord B. In a like manner a can, E, can be placed in the bags, as shown in Fig. 3. Fruit-jars, milk and cream vessels, &c., can be placed.into the bags in a like manner. If liquids passing through pipes are to be cooled, 60 a piece of fabric, K, is passed and held around the pipe L, and the ends of the fabric are dipped into water contained in a tank, M, arranged below the pipe.

In place of filling the space between the two 65 bags with ice, a freezing-mixture—forinstance, ice and snow, or a chemical freezing-mixture— or pieces of sponge, asbestus, or other fibrous material, can be placed between the bags A A'. The bags can be made of any fibrous material; 7c but preferably they are w oven in the same manner as lamp-wicks, so that they will have great capillary power,and will fitvery closely against the bottle, can, &c. The bottle, surrounded by the refrigerating-bags, is placed in a win- 75 dow or door opening, or other place where there is a draft, which evaporates the water drawn upward by the fibers of the bags. As the refrigerating-bags have quite a large surface, a considerable quantity of liquid will be 80 evaporated, and by this great evaporation the contents of the bottle or other vessel will be cooled very rapidly. The water that is formed by the melting of the ice or freezing mixture collects in the cup C, and is drawn upward 85 again by the fibers of the bags.

The device shown in Fig. 4 operates in a like manner.