US1024159A - Room-cooling apparatus. - Google Patents

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G. J. STODDARD.

1 ROOM COOLING APPARATUS.

121 1110111011 211 315 NOVIS, 1911.

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CARLTON J'. STGDIDARD, 01' SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

RUGM-CUGLING APPARATUS.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 23, 1912.

Application filed November 6, 1911. Serial No. 658,886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Chamois J. S'roo mine, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Room- Cooling Apparatus, of which the following 'is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatuses for lowering the temperature of rooms during the heated season.

l have aimed to provide a simple and eflicient device of a portable nature, which may be placed in any room wherein it is desirable to lower the temperature, that will not only cool the room but will bring'into the room pure air from the outside and produce a retreshing circulation of the air within the room, so much desired in sick rooms during the heated season. v

I have further aimed to provide an apparatus that will have the appearance of an.

article of furniture and in which the passage of air through the same may be varled and regulated to secure the temperature desired.

The various uses to which my devicemay be applied is readily apparent and the form and features thereof maybe changed, within the scope of the claim, without departing from the spirit of my invention.

With these objects in View the invention includes the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and particularly set out in the claim.

My lnvention is illustrated in the accompanymg drawings in wlnch similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation with part of the intake pipe cut away. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 00 a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a transverse vertical section on line y 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. at is a longitudinalvertical section with the door open and turned back. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of one of-the end rests for thedrain boards.

Au outer casing 1.,pr eferably built of wood and made to resemble an article of furniture, has a lining or inner casing 2 spaced therefrom. The space between the two, except the cover or top, isfilled with a non-com ductor'of heat 3, preferably charcoal, al-- though any good non-conductor of heat may be used. In one end and at the bottom is titted a door t, for convenience in cleaning and removin in water tank tl nthesides center drain 8, which drain has lateral inchnations to the middle and longitudinal n1- clination toward one end wherein is provided a drain pipe 9. Adjacent the lower edge of each of said deflectors 6 is longitudinally placed-two, sills 10 which are sup: ported by the uprights 11. Upon said sills 10 rest the cross ties 12 upon which cakes of ice 13 are placed. This manner of supporting the ice allows free air circulation around the ice. At each end of said inner casing 2 is secured the rests 01' supports 14 which are inclined toward the middle, where upwardly extended lugs 15 are provided. Upon said rests 14 are placed the drain boards 7 with one edge of each against thedefiector 6 adjacent. The said drain boards are spaced apart by the said lugs 15. Said drain boards not only act as drains for the water from the melting ice, but also as deflectors for the air currents from around the ice. Below the longitudinally inclined drain 8 is placed the water tank 5, which may have secured thereto a faucet 17 for drawing 0d the water or which may have a detachable connection 16 fitted in the cover in order to detach said tank from the drain pipe 9 and remove the tank from within the casing 1, through the door 4 which is made close fitting.

the sides of said casing 1, packing uer casing 2, are provided ingress and egress openings. The ingress openings 1.9 are placed near the top of said casings and have fitted therein the intake pipes 20 which are connected with a main intake pipe 21, that leads from without the ropm. Each side of 3 and inthe device has its respective ingress and egress openings. The egress openings 22 are placed at the bottom of the inner casing 2 in order that there may be complete circu lation of air and no dead air spaces.

In using my apparatus I place cakes of ice 13 upon the cross ties and with the ingress pipes open, air will enter the device through the ingress openings 19. This air being warmer than the. air insaid device, will be directed by the deflectors 6 to the upper portion of the space within the device, as shown by the arrows. This warm air coming in direct contact .with the ice, will be chilled or cooled and will fall and the warm air will be drawn downward and be- Through tween the spaced apart drain boards 7, where it is again deflected by the drain 8 and out through the egress openings 22 into the room. The continued movement of air through the ingress openings 19 and out through the egress openings-22 will cause a circulation of air through the device and as it passes over and around the ice, it will be cooled. The temperature of the room may he kept'as desired by a partial closing of the ingress openings. If they should all be closed as well as the egress openings and the top tightly closed the circulation or air currents will be upward between the deflectors G and theinner casing, and down through the ice until the air Within the device is all of the same temperature and the ice may be kept for considerable time without melting.

"Having thus described my invention I desire to secure by Letters Patent and' A room cooling apparatus consisting of a casing having the Walls thereof spaced apart and said space filled With nonheatconducting material vertically placed deflector sheets, spaced from the sides of said casing and extending from near the top .to practically the middle of each side, ice supporting means in the upper portion of said casing adjacent the bottom of said deflector sheets, longitudinall placed and laterally inclined drain boar s spaced apart and seconnected with said ingress pipeand leading to the outside of the room, and a plurality of egress openings at the bottom of said casing;

In testimony whereof Ihave afiixed my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

CARLTON J. STODDARD.

lVitnesses J OHN A; DE VALLEY, BEN L. ConUM.

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