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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
ROBERT Y. BOYER AND JAMES. P. CALDWELL, OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS.
WATER-COOLING DEVICE.
998,460. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 18, 1911.
Application filed March 25, 1911. Serial No. 616,843.lo all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, ROBERT Y. BOTER
and ,JAkis P. CALDwELL, citizens of the
United States of America, residing at San
5 Marcos, in the county of Hays and State of
Texas, have invented new and useful Im-
provements in Water-Cooling Devices, of
which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to water cooling de-
.0 vices and 'it has for its object to provide a
simple and efficient device which may be
readily applied to and used in connection.
with a refrigerator or an ice box of ordinary
construction for the purpose --of cooling
15 water for drinking purposes without sub-
jecting the same to danger of contamina-
tion by direct contact with the ice.
A further object of the invention is to
produce a device of the class described which
20 may be readily manipulated in such a man-
ner as to enable the ice compartment' in
which, it is located to be conveniently and
thoroughly cleaned whenever needed.
With these, and other objects in view
25 which will readily appear as the nature of
the invention is better understood, the same
consists in the improved construction and
novel arrangement and combination of parts
which will be hereinafter fully described
30 and particularly pointed out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawings has been
illustrated a simple and preferred form of
the invention, it being, however, understood
that no limitation is necessarily made to the
35 precise structural details therein exhibited,
but that changes, alterations and n'modifica-
tions within the scope of the claim may be
resorted to when desired.
In the drawings,--Figure 1 is a top plan
40 view showing a simple and preferred con-
struction of the invention as applied in con-
nection with a refrigerator. Fig. 2 is a ver-
tical sectional view of the same, taken on
the line 2-2 in Fig. 1, the cooling coil be-
45 ing shown in dotted lines lifted to the posi-
tion which it assumes when the ice compart-
ment is to be cleansed. Fig. 3 is a horizontal
sectional view illustrating a modified con-
struction of the -device which is particularly
50 adapted to be used in connection with an
ice box. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view
taken on the line 4-4 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is
a sectional detail view of one of the unions
used in connection with the invention.
55 Corresponding parts in the several figures
are denoted by like characters of reference.The improved device -in its several forms
includes a feed pipe 1 and a discharge pipe
2 which are disposed in true longitudinal
axial alinement with each other, said device 60
being extended through opposite side walls
of the ice compartment of a refrigerator, as
shown at A in Figs. 1 and 2, or of an ice box,
as shown at B in Figs. 3 and 4. The feed
pipe 1 is to be connected with a source of 65
supply, such as a city water system. Said
pipe is equipped with a check valve con-
ventionally indicated at 3 and which will
obstruct the return flow of water in the di-
rection of the source of supply. 70
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, C designates a
pipe coil which is located within the ice
compartment, the bottom of which may be
provided with blocks or cleats 4 to support
said pipe coil. The latter is terminally con- 75
nected with the -inlet pipe 1 and with the
outlet pipe 2. The inlet pipe 1 is equipped
with a coupling or union 5 of ordinary con-
struction, as seen in Fig. 5, whereby the part
of said pipe which is connected with the 80
pipe coil C is capable of rotating axially
with reference to that part of said inlet pipe
1 which is equipped with the check valve 3
and which is connected with the source of
supply. - The outlet pipe, which extends 85
through an aperture 6 in the wall of the
ice compartment, is capable of rotating in
said aperture, and said outlet pipe carries
a discharge faucet 7:
It will be readily understood that in prac- 90
tice when a block of ice is supported upon
the coil C it will cool the contents of said
coil, thus affording a constant supply of
cool water for drinking purposes whidh may
be drawn off the faucet 7. The check valve 95
3 prevents the cool water from returning
and mingling with the comparatively warm
water in the system which constitutes the
source of supply. When it is desired to
clean the ice compartment, this may be read- 100
ily effected by swinging the pipe coil to the
position indicated in dotted lines in Fig.
2, the union being first slightly loosened, if
necessary.
In Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings has been 105
illustrated a modified form of the invention,
.whereby the same is rendered particularly
applicable to ice boxes. Under this' modi-
fied form there is substituted for the pipe
coil C a box D provided adjacent to two of 110
its corners with openings 8 and 9 for, the
reception of the inlet pipe 1 and the outlet
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Boyer, Robert Y. & Caldwell, James P. Water-Cooling Device., patent, July 18, 1911; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512258/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.