Dispensing – Agitator followed by discharge assistant and/or... – Three or more in series
Patent
1978-09-28
1980-01-01
Tollberg, Stanley H.
Dispensing
Agitator followed by discharge assistant and/or...
Three or more in series
G01F 106
Patent
active
041812441
ABSTRACT:
A dispenser for storing and dispensing ice cubes in a dispensed condition substantially free of ice chips. An electric motor driven gear train is mounted in the bottom of the ice dispenser storage bin and terminates in an output pinion which engages with a shaft mounted rotor member. The rotor member rotates about a vertical axis and includes an upper spider like section having a plurality of circumferentially spaced radially extending arms which function to maintain the stored ice cubes in a loose condition. The rotor includes a flanged rotor section adjacent the bottom of the storage bin having a plurality of radially extending rib members on its top surface. A dispensing chute is tangentially aligned with respect to the rib portion of the lower rotor section and also the hub surface of the rotor and functions to channel the loosened ice cubes therethrough. The dispenser further includes an inclined agitator member having one end thereof pivotally mounted near the upper end of the storage bin with its lower end engaging either, as disclosed in a first embodiment, a cam for transferring reciprocal motion thereto, or as disclosed in a second embodiment, one end of the reciprocating pivotally mounted lever driven by a cam member mounted on the rotor. The agitating member and the bottom of the storage bin are inclined downwardly toward the rotor member while openings in the bottom surface of the storage bin immediately under the rotor member permit the ice chips to fall therethrough.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2369508 (1945-02-01), White
patent: 3075363 (1963-01-01), Conto
Crist E.
Eaton Corporation
Johnston R. A.
McCloskey R. J.
Tollberg Stanley H.
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