Refrigeration – Means producing shaped or modified congealed product – With product receiving and storing means
Patent
1978-07-07
1979-12-04
Wayner, William E.
Refrigeration
Means producing shaped or modified congealed product
With product receiving and storing means
198688, 198853, F25C 518
Patent
active
041765281
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor belt for use in an ice body maker adapted to transfer the formed ice bodies from a collecting space to a dispensing space. The conveyor belt is arranged to pick up the ice bodies temporarily stored in the collecting space and drop them into a suitable guide chute leading to an upper portion of the dispensing space so that a receiver disposed in the dispensing space may receive the desired qauantity of ice bodies for subsequent disposition as desired. The belt is formed of a plurality of link plates articulated by cooperating knuckles with each plate having a forward edge provided with upstanding cleats and a rearward edge provided with upstanding cleats. The cleats on the forward edge extend at an angle of less than 90.degree. to the plane of the plate and the cleats on the rearward edge may extend at a greater angle to the plane of the plates. In the illustrated embodiment, the forward cleats extend at an angle of approximately 60.degree. to the plate and the rearward cleats extend at an angle of approximately 90.degree. to the plate. The belt may be entrained about upper and lower sprockets so as to extend at an upwardly forwardly directed angle so that the ice bodies picked up by the cleats are caused to be discharged into the dispensing space as a result of the cooperative functioning of the cleats and the flat surface of the link plates. The plates may be connected by hinges including open knuckles on the front and rear edges of the plates for facilitated maintenance and assembly.
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Tapoleai, Jr. William E.
Wayner William E.
Whirlpool Corporation
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