US98852A - Improved ice-crushing table - Google Patents

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SAMUEL n. DAVIS AND DAVID W. DAVIS, or DETRo1T,'MIcHIGAN.

Letters Patent No. 98,852, dated l.Tamcarg/ 18d, 1870. r

Ami- IMPROVED ICE-CRUSHING- TABLE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To who-m it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL H. DAVIS and DA- VID W. DAVIS, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ice-Crushing Table; and we do declare that the following is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and tothe letters of reference marked thereon, and being a. part of this speciiication.

form size, suitable for freezing ice-cream, and other articles, and for packing oysters, tish, and other articles that require to be kept at a low temperature.

llie invention consists of a strong frame, supported upon suitable legs, and provided with lateral metal bars, and suitable side and end-boards, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings- A represents a strong frame, made of any suitable material, and mounted upon suitable support-s B.

Bars of iron or steel O, or of any appropriate material, are imposed laterally across the frame, onehalf inch or more apart, according to circumstances.

These bars may he ot any desired form and material, prrferably, however, of steel, 'and of .diamondjorln, ald so iaid upon the frame that they willbe sharp on top and tapering underneath, as the-n the ice The .nature of this invention relates to a device for crnshingice into pieces of asmall and nearly uniwill not clog in its passage, as it will be apt to do when they'are square orrectangular.

The bars should be 'so secured that they can readily `be taken out separately, to be ground or'filed.

. The ice to be -broltenshould b'e placed upon the bars in cakes, say, varying in weight omtwenty-tive to two hundred pounds, the side and end-boards D, when in place, preventing it from sliding ofi'.

A smart blow with a small axe, or other suitable device, will break the ice Vand drive it through the grating, thus making it into nearly uniform-sized pieces, for the purpose set forth. f

The side-boards D may be secured rigidly to the `frame-work A, or in such a manner that they can be easily removed.

With this device one man can crush more ice in one hour than four men cando in the same time with the most improved ice-mills, while the` apparatus is cheap and durable, and the processsimple and easy.

W hat we claim as our improvement in an ice-crushing table, is-

The `arrangement of the bars C with their sharp angular edges, an'd the two outside bars E with upper dat surfaces, and side and end-pieces D, in hopperform, on leg B, as shown and described.

. i S. H. DAVIS. W'itnesses: D. W. DAVIS. t Jas. I. DAY,

H. S. SPBAGUE.

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