Refrigeration – Means producing shaped or modified congealed product – Heat absorber with product remover
Patent
1980-10-09
1981-12-22
Tapolcai, Jr., William E.
Refrigeration
Means producing shaped or modified congealed product
Heat absorber with product remover
249 66R, 62 72, 425440, F25C 506
Patent
active
043064230
ABSTRACT:
An ice maker for use in a freezer compartment of a refrigerator including a flexible tray having cavities for forming ice pieces. The front of the ice tray has a handle and the rear has a first and second spaced guide element projecting therefrom. There is provided a support structure having a front wall with a triangular-shaped opening with all three sides of the opening being outwardly curved and dimensioned to receive therein the ice tray handle in guiding rotation thereof. There is also provided a rear wall having a track with a vertical inwardly curved portion with a terminal end at the top thereof and a horizontal downwardly curved portion joining the bottom of the vertical curved portion, said track being dimensioned to receive in guiding movement said first and second spaced guide elements on the ice tray. Upon rotation of the ice tray handle in the triangular-shaped opening, the first guide element moves in the vertical curved portion of the track and abuts the terminal end thereof and the second guide element moves in the horizontal curved portion and abuts the vertical curved portion. The guide elements and track cooperate to prevent further rotational movement of the rear of the ice tray while the front of the ice tray may continue to be rotated thus twisting the tray about its longitudinal axis to effect harvesting of the ice pieces formed in the cavities of the ice tray.
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Losert Gerhard K.
Webb William M.
General Electric Company
Reams Radford M.
Tapolcai, Jr. William E.
Weidner Frederick P.
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