Ice detection device

Details Ice detection device Ice detection device

1993-09-13

1995-08-22

Hoff, Marc S.

Electricity: circuit makers and breakers

Special application

Turn indicator type switches

222 64, H01H 3500

Patent

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054442001

ABSTRACT:
An ice detection device for detecting ice pieces supplied into and stored in an ice storage bin, which includes a removable lid formed with a cylindrical guide portion and coupled over an upper opening end of the storage bin, a hollow piston mounted for vertical movement within the guide portion of the lid, a float plate fixed to a lower end of the hollow piston to cover the ice pieces stored in the storage bin, a removable cap coupled over the lid, the cap being formed to close an upper opening of the guide portion of the lid and formed at its center with a cylindrical projection extending therefrom into an axial bore of the hollow piston, a permanent magnet mounted on an upper portion of the hollow piston, and a magnetically operated switch mounted within the cylindrical projection of the cap to cooperate with the permanent magnet.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3441176 (1969-04-01), Reynolds et al.
patent: 4787539 (1988-11-01), Uchida et al.
patent: 5213204 (1993-05-01), Sommer

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