Ice-making machine with contoured water curtain

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2006-02-07

2006-02-07

Tapolcai, William E. (Department: 3744)

Refrigeration

Means producing shaped or modified congealed product

With raw material projector, e.g., spray

Reexamination Certificate

active

06993929

ABSTRACT:
An ice machine includes a water curtain configured to minimize the flow of water into an ice bin underneath the ice machine. The water curtain is positioned adjacent to the front surface of an ice-forming mold and includes a body having a wide section and a narrow section. The wide section has hinge members therein so that the water curtain can swing away from the ice-forming mold during ice harvesting. The water curtain has a tongue at the bottom of the narrow section that is turned toward the ice-forming mold. Sidewalls of the water curtain extend toward the ice-forming mold. The sidewalls have indentations such that the narrow section is spaced inward from machine frame members adjacent to the sidewall when the water curtain is in a rest position.

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Publication, Grainger Catalog, 75thAnniversary, p. 3127.
Publication, Johnstone Supply, Wholesale Catalog #192, pp. 706 and 709.

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