Untitled record

Application filed March 5, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Edgar B. Jewett, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful 5 Improvements in Water - Coolers; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will io enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has general reference to water-coolers; and it consists, essentially, in the combination, with the water-reservoir, 15 of a removable ice-receptacle, substantially as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved water-cooler. Fig. 2 is a sec20 tional elevation of the same. Fig/ 3 is a similar view of the cover and ice-receptacle detached. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional elevation of the upper portion of a water-cooler slightly modified. Fig. 5 is a plan of the same uncov25 ered, and Fig. 6 a vertical section of an icereservoir and cover formed in one piece. Fig·. 7 is a vertical central section of a water-cooler having the ice-receptacle provided with an upper extension serving as a provision or cool30 ing chamber.

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in all the figures.

. A in the drawings represents the outer cylindrical shell of my water-cooler, having- on 35 its lower end a flaring rim, B, and on its upper end the “ wired ’ ’ edge a. In the interior of this shell is placed the water-reservoir C, resting with its upper edge upon the wired edge of the shell A, and permanently secured with4° in said shell by the screw or bolt c passing through the diaphragm & in said shell A. This Water-reservoir is formed of metal, and covered with an enamel or vitrified substance, to protect the iron and prevent it from impart45 ing an unpleasant flavor or color to the water, such water-reservoirs being now almost exclusively demanded by the trade and the consumers, owing to the above-mentioned advantages derived from such construction.

_ In water-coolers it is very desirable that the ice be contained in a separate vessel, so that the water resulting from the melting of the ice shall not mix with the drinking-water in the water-reservoir, such water being always more or less contaminated with foreign sub- 55 stances and unfit for drinking purposes. Prior to the introduction of said vitrified water-reservoirs there have been made water-coolers having a separate ice-receptacle formed within the water-reservoir, such structures haying been 60 made of sheet metal soldered.together, the said ice-receptacle forming· an inseparable portion of the water-reservoir; but owing to the fact that the vitrified water-reservoir does not allow of soldering either before or after vitrifi- 65 cation, there has not been constructed a watercooler having an ice-receptacle since the introduction of such vitrified water-reservoirs; and to construct such separate ice-reservoir and combinewithitthe water-cooler having a vitri- 70 fled water-reservoir, which is the object of my present invention, I provide the cover E of the water-reservoir with a central tubular aperture or passage, E', formed by the tube e, and pass through this tubular passage the ice-recepta- 75 cle D, consisting of a tubular vessel having on its upper edge a bead, d', said vessel being slightly tapering, so as to make a tight fit with the tube e when the bead d' rests upon the upper edge of the cover E. By thus constructing 80 the parts I am enabled to vitrify an ice-receptacle either on its outer surface, where it dips into the drinking-water, or I may vitrify it entirely on both its out and in side surfaces.

It will be readily observed that by remov- 85 ably inserting the ice-receptacle into the cover for the water-reservoir I attain certain results not readily obtained by any other method of construction, prominent of which is that I can construct the ice-receptacle of comparatively 90 light metal, (sheet metal,) the weight of the cover E, together with that of the receptacle D, being sufficient to overcome the buoyancy of the latter, which would not be the case were the said ice-receptacle simply inserted into the 95 water-reservoir, and not loaded to cause it to sink in the drinking-water. Another advantage derived from the construction described is that both the ice and water receptacles can be constructed with a vitrified coating, no solder 100 of any kind being necessary to produce a perfect water-cooler.

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Instead of passing the ice - receptacle D through the cover E, I may construct. these parts integral in the process of casting; or I may unite them in any desirable and approved man5 ner, such construction being illustrated in Fig.

6; or I may provide the ice-receptacle D with a lateral flange and lugs d, as shown in Figs.

and 5, the latter being arranged to rest on the water-reservoir, and the cover E upon the io said ice-receptacle D, thus producing substantially the same results as those obtained by the methods of construction heretofore described.

In some cases it is desirable to combine with the water-cooler means for keeping wine or 15 other beverages, &c., in bottles, &c., in a cold condition. In such case I prefer to construct the ice-receptacle with an upper extension, H, as shown in Fig. 7, of a size nearly (if not) as large as the shell A of the cooler, thus obtain20 ing a comparatively large ice-chamber and sufficient additional space for the article or substance to be preserved.

It is perfectly obvious that the removable ice-receptacle has to be provided with a sepa25 rate cover, G, while in the construction illus trated in Figs.. 4, 5, and 7 one cover, E, is sufficient to protect the interior of both the water and the ice receptacles.