SUMMER, FRUIT, ICE, AND ARTIFICIAL SPRING HOUSE, FROM PLANS BY 

 JOHN G. SCHOOLEY, CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



(Process Patented March 139 1855*) 



Fig. 1. Scale, % in. to 10 feet. 



Fig. 1. — Represents a sectional view of Summer, Ice, Fetht, and Artificial Spring 

 House, located on side hill. 



A. Ice-house, twenty by twenty-five feet (outside), a. Door into ice-house, to admit 

 ice, two and a half feet long and one foot wide, made with a slide to close and open at 

 will ; if it is more convenient, it can be made in the door a. 



B. Fruit-room, twenty by twenty-five feet (outside). 



C. Artificial Spring-House, p. Inclined floor of ice-house, well insulated, eighteen 

 inches thick, well caulked or covered with zinc. b. Mouth of descending flue, twelve 

 inches high, and to extend the entire width of ice-room, as in flg. 2. d. Descending 

 flue. c. Mouth of same, in fruit-room. f. Opening for the escape of air, from fruit- 

 room into spring-house (one foot high, and one foot six inches long), g. Outlet open- 

 ing (one foot by two feet), m. Door from spring-house into fruit-room. n. Door from 

 outside into spring-house, h. Mouth of lead pipe, to lead off the ice-meltings down 

 into spring-house, i. Escape-channel for the water to run out and down side hill. 

 o. Partition, to bo made eighteen inches thick, and to be filled with dry saw-dust, or 

 tan. The light-colored partitions are to be made of wood, well lined with close boards, 

 or flooring. The dark part is a stone wall, being against and in the earth. The stono 

 wall sliould be lined with rough, dry boards, on the inside. TJie fruit-room, B, should 

 be either lathed and plastered, or lined with dry pine flooring. 



