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Disclosed is a dual-purpose refrigerator for use on an automobile mainly including a housing having an inner container therein. The inner container has a flat-type circulating pipe spirally wound about its upper outer surface and a closed water chamber formed at a lower part thereof. Two pipes exten

Disclosed is a dual-purpose refrigerator for use on an automobile mainly including a housing having an inner container therein. The inner container has a flat-type circulating pipe spirally wound about its upper outer surface and a closed water chamber formed at a lower part thereof. Two pipes extend from two ends of the circulating pipe to an air-conditioning compressor of the automobile via a multi-way flow control valve, and two pipes extend from the water chamber to an engine radiator of the automobile via the same multi-way flow control valve. The multi-way flow control valve is supplied with current to either open the pipes communicating the circulating pipe and the air-conditioning compressor for cool air from the compressor to flow into the circulating pipe to refrigerate the inner container, or open the pipes communicating the water chamber and the engine radiator for hot water from the engine radiator to flow into said water chamber to heat the inner container. A spout and a pumping device may be provided to the refrigerator to conveniently supply cold or hot water stored in an upper part of the inner container for drinking.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A dual-purpose refrigerator for use on an automobile, comprising a housing, an inner container disposed in said housing, a circulating pipe spirally wound about an outer surface of an upper part of said inner container, and a multi-way flow control valve provided between

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A dual-purpose refrigerator for use on an automobile, comprising a housing, an inner container disposed in said housing, a circulating pipe spirally wound about an outer surface of an upper part of said inner container, and a multi-way flow control valve provided between said housing and an engine radiator and an air-conditioning compressor of the automobile; a partition being provided inside said inner container to form a separate water chamber at a lower part of said inner container, said multi-way flow control valve consisting of a cool air electromagnetic valve and a hot water electromagnetic valve opposite to one another and connected together by a connecting stem, a cool air inlet pipe and a cool air outlet pipe being connected at a first end to a lower end and an upper end, respectively, of said spirally wound circulating pipe and at a second end to a first side of said cool air electromagnetic valve, a cool air guiding-in pipe and a cool air guiding-out pipe being connected at a first end to said air-conditioning compressor and at a second end to a second side of said cool air electromagnetic valve corresponding to said cool air inlet pipe and said cool air outlet pipe, a hot water inlet pipe and a hot water outlet pipe being connected at a first end to a lower and an upper portion, respectively, of said water chamber and at a second to a first side of said hot water electromagnetic valve, and a hot water guiding-in pipe and a hot water guiding-out pipe connected at a first end to said engine radiator and at a second end to a second side of said hot water electromagnetic valve corresponding to said hot water inlet pipe and said hot water outlet pipe; whereby, by switching on said hot water electromagnetic valve of said multi-way flow control valve, hot water from said engine radiator of the automobile may flow through said hot water guiding-in pipe and said hot water inlet pipe into said water chamber to heat said inner container for said housing to serve as a warmer, and by switching on said cool air electromagnetic valve of said multi-way flow control valve, cool air from said air-conditioning compressor of the automobile may be guided by said cool air guiding-in pipe and said cool air inlet pipe into said flat-type circulating pipe wound about said inner container to refrigerating said inner container for said housing to serve as a refrigerator.