Any modern and not very car is equipped with various useful things. Some help the driver to drive his "iron horse". Others maintain a comfortable atmosphere in the cabin. Each vehicle comes with an instruction manual. This is where it tells about the interesting functions of some devices in the car. As an example, the glove compartment. In many car brands, it is designed not only for storing various necessary little things.
Is there a glove compartment?
The locking compartment on the passenger side, located in the front of the vehicle, is a very unique place. You can find many interesting things in it. Starting from documents for cars, personal hygiene products, to shoes, rags and food supplies. Convenient compartment for temporary storage of garbage.
In the closing compartment on the "torpedo" often the order is kept for a short time. Constant opening and closing, searching for the right little things lead to a mess. Therefore, the name "glove compartment" has firmly taken root among the people. This is the name of the closing compartment on the front panel of the car.
But its official name sounds completely different. Since the creation of the first vehicle, the compartment has undergone many transformations. Initially, leggings were kept in it - gloves made of coarse material. The driver needed them for minor repairs that the car sometimes required. Later, the dirty leggings were replaced by quite decent gloves. They were worn by the driver and passengers during the trip. The first cars were open, and from the blowing of the wind, especially in cold weather, hands often froze. In order not to wear gloves from home to car and back, they began to store them in a special place on the front panel.
So, the first official name for "glove compartment" was "glove box". Later, in the operating instructions for the car, they began to call it "a box for things" or "glove box". By the way, in many car models, it has a special function that few car owners know about.
Glove compartment and strange "twist"
Many brands of motor vehicles have a strange lever or wheel in the glove compartment. Next to them are two designations - zero, an asterisk or a snowflake. This was done for a reason. It is not known for certain which of the designers decided to modernize the glovebox by adding strange "gizmos" inside. But a useful innovation stuck and even began to be used by many auto giants when creating their four-wheeled "offspring".
So what is a lever or a wheel inside the glove compartment for? Oddly enough, but for its cooling.
Glove box with mini fridge function
There is one design feature in car models where a glove compartment with a cooling function is provided. It is connected with air ducts. They are connected not only to the deflectors - lattice gizmos from which cold or warm air blows. One of the air duct outlets is attached to the glove compartment.
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If the lever or "knob" is at the "zero" mark, then the air supply to the glove compartment is closed. As soon as the toggle switch moves to the "star" or "snowflake" - the glove compartment will immediately change its functional accessory. It will become a mini fridge. Cold streams entering the compartment from the duct quickly cool it down. However, not only the glove compartment, but everything in it.
The average temperature for cooling the compartment on the "torpedo" fluctuates in the range of +10... + 15 ° C. Agree, this is quite enough to enjoy a cool drink in the heat, which can be obtained from such a familiar glove compartment with an unusual function.
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