US1917721A - Provision cabinet - Google Patents

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PROVI SION CABINET Filed Aug. 4. 19 51 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Inventor Q/SEPH/ AM/L 4 Home y Filed Aug. 4. 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 JOSEPH A M/L Patented July 11, 1933' UNETED STATES J'OSEFH KAMIL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PROVISION CABINET Application filed August 4, 1931. Serial No. 555,126.

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in provision cabinets, window refrigerators and the like.

It is one of the objects of the present nvention to provide a new and novel provis on cabinet which may be used upon the interior of a building adjacent a window thereof and receives its cooling medium in the form of air from the exterior of the building.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a new and novel construction whereby the communication between the interior of the cabinet and the exterior of the building will be automatically cut off each time the cabinet is opened.

With the above and other objects in view, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, wherein;

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the interior of a room showing the cabinet constructed in accordance with the present invention and its manner of use,

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken through the cabinet and a portion of the window in connection with which it is used,

Figure 3 is a view in front elevation of a portion of the device, and;

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view illustrating a detail of construction of the cabinet.

The cabinet is designated A, and the window is designated B. The window B has a sash O and this sash is movable in the window B in the ordinary manner.

The cabinet A has a top wall 10 and end walls 11 and a front wall 12. The cabinet is preferably supported spaced from the floor by legs or the like 18 which are adjustable as indicated in Figure 4 by reason of the fact that they are formed of two members 14 and 15 which may be secured together in any desired position by means of a screw 16.

The interior of the cabinet has communication with the exterior of the window by means of a bellows like member 19 which is connected to the cabinet as at 20, at one end and at its other end as at 21 to the central member of a three part extensible panel member 22 which is adapted to be positioned between the lower rail of the window sash C and the window sill when the sash is partly raised as illustrated in Figure 2.

The front wall 12 of the cabinet forms a closure therefor, and is of the flexible type and comprises a plurality of slats or the like 25 flexibly connected together. This front wall slides in tracks or guideways 26 carried by the end walls 11 of the cabinet and said track or guideways 26 extends across the top of the cabinet and partially down the rear Wall 30 thereof. The front wall 12 is provided with an operating handle 31 by means of which it may be moved in the track or guideway 26 in order to open and close the cabinet.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that the front wall 12 when moved to the open position slides through the track or guideways 26 and that when moved to its full open position, the upper end of the front wall 12 will pass to a position where it will close the inner end of the bellows like member 19 and thus cutoff communication between the interior of the cabinet and the exterior of the window.

By this construction it is obvious that when the cabinet is opened, the cold air cannot enter the cabinet from the outside and thus be discharged therefrom into the room in which the cabinet is used which would be the result if means were not provided to shut-off the communication between the interior of the cabinet and the exterior of the window when the cabinet were opened for the purpose of removing provisions therefrom or placing provisions therein.

While the invention has been herein disclosed in a preferred form, it is obviously that it may be practiced in other forms without departing from the spirit thereof, and the invention is not to be limited to the specific construction herein illustrated.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and what is desired to se- 1. A window refrigerator cabinet comprising a rectangular casing open at its front and having an opening in the rear wall thereof, tracks provided on the side walls of said cure by Letters Patent of the United States, 9

ing and extending rearwardly. beneath the top wall and downwardly adjacent the rear wall below the opening therein, and a flexible closure member slidable in said tracks which when moved down to a closed position, closes the open front of said casing and is clear of the opening in the rear wall, and when moved upward to open position closes the opening in the rear wall, a panel adapted to be positioned in a window opening having an opening therein and a bellows member between the opening in the rear wall of said casing and the opening in said panel.

In testimony whereof Iaffix mv signature.

JOSEPH 'KAMIL.

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