US706451A - Storage system. - Google Patents

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Patented Aug. 5, |902. J. B. RECTOR.

STORAGE SYSTEM.

(Applimion med Feb. 9, 1001.) (N o M o d e l.)

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JOHN ROBERT RECTOR, OF LIPAN, TEXAS.

STO RAG E SYSTEM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 706,451, datedAugust 5, 1902.

Application filed February 91x1901. VSerial Non. 46,670. (No model.)

4To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that l, JOHN ROBERT RECTOR, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lipan, in the count-y ofHocd and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved `Storage System, of which the following is a` full, clear, and exact description. y

The purpose ofvthis invention is to p rovide a house for storing perishable goods in which the goods will be kept cool Without the necessity of ice or other analogous `means of lowering the temperature, the temperature of cate corresponding parts in all the views.

lFigure l isa perspective view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 2` 2 of Fig. Swith parts of the slatted.

fiooring removed; and Fig. 3 is a horiontal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, also withparts of the slatted flooring removed.

a represents the house, which may be of' any suitable size and form, but the walls of which should be constructed as nearly nonheat-conducting as possible. This building has a slatted flooring l) extending throughare formed a main air-circulating passage c and a number of diagonal branches c', the` branches c'extending out from each side of the main passagecand suchmain passage extending longitudinally through the center of the building.

Formed in the earth adjacent to the house and leading from adistant point to the house is an air-passage d, the outer endof which communicates with a stack e, having a funnel f at its top. VThis stack is mounted adjustably at the outer end of the passage d, so that the stackA may be turned to a `position facing the direction from which the wind is blowing, so that the wind will blow intothe funnel and blow down the stack e into the passage d. Through this passage the air passes, and it enters the passage c and the "(See Fig. 1.)

branches c. `From here the air passes up through the slatted door b and may escape from the building by a suitable outlet stack or chimney g, arranged at the topthereof. In the drawings I have shown one `stack g arranged at the center of the root` of the house a; but it isv clear that any nu mber of stacks may be employed and that they may be placed in any position desired without departingfrom the spirit'of lnyinvention.

When the building is heated by the sun, the air within rises, passing from the outletstack at the extreme top of the building. The building thus acts as a heat-actuated ventilator.

` For the purpose of rendering the current of air moist as it passes into the building a I mayplace in the bottom of the passaged, at a point adjacent to the stack e, a yessel 7i, containing water. For .facilitating the emplacement `and displacement of this vessel an opening may be madein the earth above thepassage d and a suitable closure t' employed in connection therewith removably to coverthe opening. -The vapors of evapo- 4ration rising from the water in the vessel 71 will pervade the air as it passes through the passages d, and the air will therefore carry with it a certain degree ot` moisture, which will tend to keep the air inthe house a in proper condition and prevent drying orparching of the goods therein. out the area thereof, and below this flooring Any perishable` goods may be 'storedand preserved in the house.

The invention is particularly adapted to keeping fruit, Vegetables, and yother farm products. f l A Various changes inthe form, proportions, and minor details may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. Hence I consider myself entitled to all such variations as may lie within the scope of my claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A storage system comprising a house, a stack mounted upon the ground some distance therefrom and provided with a revoluble funnel for facing the wind from dierent directions, an underground passage connect- IOO ed with said stack and extending beneath said house, a part of said passage beneath said house having a general tapering form and being provided with branch passages dis- 5 posed obliqnely to the general direction of said passage and terminating at points ad jaf cent to the walls of said house, a slatted door for said house, said oor being disposed over `a11of said branch passages, and means for

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