Refrigeration – Automatic control – By congealed removable product condition
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-14
2006-11-14
Tapolcai, William E. (Department: 3744)
Refrigeration
Automatic control
By congealed removable product condition
C062S353000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07134292
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed are a full ice level sensing apparatus and method in which a full ice level of ice cubes in an ice bank is sensed by means of upward and downward movements of an elevating member, thereby minimizing an operational area of the elevating member required to sense the full ice level and increasing an effective volume of a freezing chamber. The full ice level sensing apparatus includes an elevating member disposed so as to rectilinearly move up and down into the ice bank, elevating means for rectilinearly moving the elevating member upward and downward, and sensing means for sensing whether or not the ice bank is at the full ice level based on the position of the elevating member.
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