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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
BURGESS MODREL STEWART, OF MASON, TEXAS.
REFRIGERATOR.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,308, dated December 19, 1899.
Application filed August 9, 1899, Serial No. 726,699, (No model.)To all whonz i Jmay concern.
Be it known that I, BURGESS MODREL STEW-
ART, a citizen of the United States, residing
at Mason, in the county of Mason and State
5 of Texas, have invented a new and useful
Refrigerator, of which the following is aspeci-
fication.
This invention relates to refrigerators in
general, and more particularly to that class
i in which the evaporation of water or other
liquid is employed to reduce temperature in
substitution of ice, the object of the inven-
tion being to provide a construction in the
general nature of a safe and in which the con-
15 tents of a vessel at the top of the refrigerator
maybe caused to pass slowly downwardly and
around the articles upon the several shelves
of the safe to maintain a cool and moist at-
mosphere.
20 Referring to the drawings forming a por-
tion of this specification, and in which similar
numerals of reference designate correspond-
ing parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a
perspective view showing the exterior of a
25 safe constructed in accordance with this in-
vention. Fig. 2 is a central transverse ver-
tical section. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3
of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a
slatted shelf. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective
30 of one of the drain-boards.
Referring now to the drawings, in a refrig-
erator embodying this invention are com-
prised ends 5 and 0 and a back 7, consisting
of open frames having foraminous coverings,
35 and also doors 8, consisting of frames having
foraminous coverings. A lid 9 is hinged to the
top of the casing of the refrigerator and opens
into a compartment at the ends of which are
fixed rails 10, adapted to receive and support
40 a pan 11, having upwardly-diverging sides 12
and adapted to receive a refrigerating liquid,
such as water.
Attached to the sides and ends of the cas-
ing are cleats 13, arranged at different levels,
45 the cleats of each level having disposed there-
on a drain-board consisting of a cross-piece
14, the upper face of which is converged to-
ward the center, and upon which cross-pieces
is mounted a metallic plate 15, bent to lie in
50 planes corresponding to the upper face of thecross-pieces, the ends of the plate being curved
upwardly, as shown at 16. Thus is formed a
drain-board comprising two slanting elements
meeting at a central ridge. Rising from the
ridge of the drain-board are pins 17, adapted 55
to enter the recesses 18 in the end slats 19
of a shelf comprising side sills 20 and a plu-
rality of slats intermediate and parallel with
the slats 18 and 19. When the shelf is dis-
posed upon the drain-board, the sills 20 rest 6o
upon the upper surface of the latter and the
slats lie free of the drain-board, the width of
the shelf being less than the width of the
drain-board. Fixed to the ends of the sills
20 are the inwardly-directed ends of wires 21, 65
which lie parallel with the side edges of the
shelves and are adapted to receive the ends
of sections of fabric 22, which are passed
around the wires and then outwardly and over
the edges of the drain-board and then down 70
and across the surface of the shelf below, a
similar fabric 23 lying upon the uppermost
shelf and having its ends extending over the
side edges of the vessel 11 and into the water
therein. 75
The bottom of the refrigerator 25 has sub-
stantially the same shape as the drain-boards
thereabove, but is inverted, the lowermost
shelf resting with its sills upon the upturned
edges 26 of the bottom. Also the central por- 8o
tion of the bottom is depressed below the un-
der faces of the end upturned edges 26, and
the lowermost portion of the bottom is pro-
vided with a perforation 27. This bottom 25
completely fills the space inclosed by the 85
framework at the lower end of the refriger-
ator, and thus receives all drip from the ele-
ments thereabove and also any water of con-
densation. In practice a suitable vessel
(shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2) is disposed 90
beneath the perforation 27 and receives the
water which passes therefrom.
It will be noted upon reference to Fig. 2
that the bottom 25 is supported upon cleats
29, fixed to the inner faces of the ends of the 95
casing of the refrigerator, while the cleats
13', which are arranged transversely of the
refrigerator and in the planes of their respec-
tive cleats 13, are disposed inwardly from the
frame of the refrigerator in order that the oo
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Stewart, Burgess Modrel. Refrigerator., patent, December 19, 1899; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513049/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.