Refrigeration – Processes – Congealing flowable material – e.g. – ice making
Patent
1989-09-21
1991-02-05
Tapolcai, William E.
Refrigeration
Processes
Congealing flowable material, e.g., ice making
62 75, 62349, F25C 112
Patent
active
049901699
ABSTRACT:
An ice product bearing a clearly discernable pattern or design caused by the controlled formation of cloudy ice within an otherwise clear ice cube, and a machine or apparatus for producing such cubes comprising a flexible membrane (56) which is urged into and out of thermal contact with a refrigerated surface (51) upon which raised conductive areas (52) define discrete freezing sites which determine where on the flexible membrane the ice cubes are formed and then removing the ice cubes by flexing the flexible membrane.
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English translation of French Publication 2,343,209.
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Broad Research
Tapolcai William E.
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