US236164A - Ice-shaver - Google Patents

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(No Model. E. B. KENDALL.-

Ice Shaver. 'No.'236,164. Patented Jan. 4 -1881.

G- I i F 5 L 2- ELLEN B. KENDALL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

ICED-SHAVER.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 236,164, dated January 4, 1881. Application filed April 29, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, ELLEN B. KENDALL,

I of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ice-Shavers, which improvement is fully set forth in g the following specification and accompanying drawings, in whichs Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view through the line 3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the line a: of Fig. 1.

The object of my invention is to provide a box for shaving ice which is used for cooling purposes at soda-fountains, or for other like purposes and the design principally is to insure the perfect cutting or shaving of the ice, so that when it is prepared, ready for delivery in the glass or tumbler containing the soda-water or other drink, it can all be deposited in said glass at one time.

It consists of an ice-box having within a horizontal cylindrical shell provided with two or more knives the length of the cylinder, with the cutting-edges projecting slightly beyond the surface of the cylinder, so that when the cylinder is rotated the knives will shave off small particles of ice from the mass resting on the cylinder, and the shavings thus produced will pass into the cylinder until removed therefrom by means of a piston head or scraper adapted to slide within the cylinder, and operated by rods which pass out through the end of the cylinder.

In the drawings, A represents a box made, preferably, square inside,'but being at least two or three times higher than it is wide. The upper half of this box provided with the usual ice-chest lining O and covered with an ordinary lid or cover, B.

A cylinder, D, having diameter equal to the interior diameter of the ice-chest 0, is journaled horizontally near the bottom of the icechest. One end of this cylinder D has a head, D, which abuts interiorly against the surface of the box A, and has a journal, G, which passes out through the box A. This journal is equipped with a balance-wheel, H, having a crank, I, by means of which motion is imparted to the cylinder D. The opposite end of the cylinder extends through an opening in the opposite side of the box, and ,pro-

jects slightly beyond the outer surface of the box. Adrum, J, andasemi-cylindrical cap, K, cover the end of the cylinder D, but at the same time not connected therewith, nor do they prevent the free rotation of the cylinder D. The semi-cylindrical cap K has an opening, K, at its lower end.

F represents the head or scraper, of even size with the interior of the cylinder D. This is connected with two rods, E, one on each side of the center shaft, E, which pass out the open end of the cylinder and through the semi-cylindrical cap K, terminating in a head, F, by means of which the head F is made to traverse the interior of the cylinder 1) from end to end.

The pipe 0 in the bottom of the ice-chest proper is designed to draw oft the water from the chest 0.

In operation, the ice is placed above the cylinder in the space represented by 0. Thus the entire mass of ice will rest on the cylinder D. This cylinder has two or more longitudinal knives, a, set over slots 12, so that the cutting-edges project slightly out from the surface of the cylinder. lVhen the cylinder rotates, the ice, pressing down upon it, meets the knives, and small shavings are out therefrom, which fall within the cylinder. The glass or other receptacle to be cooled is placed under the opening of the semi-cylindrical cap K, and when a sufficient amount of ice has been shaved the head F is grasped and the head F drawn toward the open end of the cylinder. This draws out the accumulations within, which fall into the receptacle under K.

To provide for keeping the ice above the cylinder in a more stable condition, I construct a box, L, large enough to pass down within the chest 0, and in this box an iron weight, M, is placed. This firmly packs the ice around the cylinder, and also prevents the direct c0ntact of air against its upper surface. Rods N N, secured to opposite sides of the box L, pass up through the lid B and terminate in loops, for convenience in raising the lid or in adjusting the weights.

In some cases it is desirable to have the discharge-spout K so arranged that thelcontents of the cylinder can be emptied within the lower part of the box. (Designated by P.)

This can be accomplished by simply extend- 2. The ice-box A, having at one side the ing the lower end of the semi-cylindrical cap drum J, and the semi-cylindrical cap K, hav- Kin the direction shown by dotted line Q. ing an opening, K, below, in combination 15 Havingdescribed my invention, what claim with the cylinder D, having knives a, as herein 5 as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, set forth.

l. The cylinder D, having knives a, in com- ELLEN B. KENDALL. bination with the head F, attached to rods E, by means of which the shavings within the \Vitnesses: [0 cylinder D may be withdrawn from the said J. S. ZERBE,

cylinder, substantially as and for the purpose H. J. HARROP.

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