US474357A - Refrigerator - Google Patents

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RRRRRRRRRRR R. No. 474,357.. Patented May 10, 1892.

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CHARLES BOLDT, OF ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,357, dated May 10, 1892.

Application led September 24, 1891. Serial No. 406,668. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t 71mg concern,.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES BoLDr, a citizen of the United States, residing atAnnapolis, in the county of Anne Arundel and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Refrigerator, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to refrigerators, and has for its object to construct an attractive and convenient fixture for restaurants, hotels, and dining-rooms adapted to receive and keep cool bottled liquids, and which, while reducing to a minimum the exposure of the same to the warm air, yet will readily permit of a consecutive removal of the bottles.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain features of oonstruction hereinafter specied, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of a refrigerator constructed in accordance with my invention, the same being closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the refrigerator being open.

Like numerals and letters of reference indicate like parts in both the figures of the drawings.

l represents a refrigerator of ordinary exterior construction, upon which is mounted or which refrigerator has located at its upper end an ordinary ice-box C. The front wall of the refrigerator consists of a large door A, which is hinged to one edge of the opening, whereby by opening the door access to the entire interior of the refrigerator may be had. Small openings are formed in the door A near the upper and lower ends thereof and in this instance at diametrically-opposite corners, the upper right-hand corner opening being provided with a hinged door a and the lower lefthand corner opening being provided with a hinged door a. The openings covered by the doors ct a are of a size to admit of the passage longitudinally of ordinary-sized bottles, such as commonly employed for beer, wine, pop, dre.

Leading from a point opposite the door A there is located within the refrigerator a zigzag shelving, the same comprising in this instance three sections B B B, the shelf-sections extending from the opposite side Walls of the refrigerator and terminating just short of that side Wall to which they are not connected. The upper section is connected to the right-hand side wall and inclines over to within a short distance of the left-hand side wall. The second shelf is secured to the left-hand side wall and inclines to the right-hand side Wall, terminating short of the same; and the lower shelf, like the upper one, is connected to the right-hand side wall and inclines over to and is secured to the lefthand side wall. A series of bottles placed upon the shelves may be successively withdrawn through the lower door ct when the main door is closed, and uncooled bottles may be successivelyintroduced through the upper door a, so as to compensate for those withdrawn through the lower door for consumption. In this manner it will be apparent that after the series of bottles in the refrigerator once become cooled by always withdrawing from the bottom door and refilling from the upper door cool bottles can always be obtained from the apparatus and un cooled bottles will become cooled by their passage down the inclined shelves or descent ot' the upper door to a point opposite the lower.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The combination, with the refrigerator having the front wall or door hinged thereto and provided near its upper and lower ends with small openings or bottle-passages having hinged doors, of the series of oppositely-declining shelf-sections extending from alternatelyopposite side walls of the refrigerator and terminating short of the Walls toward which they decline, thus forminga zigzag shelf, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES BOLDT. Vitnesses:

J AoKsoN BREWER, W. L. PEEIEEEE.

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