Refrigeration – Automatic control – By congealed removable product condition
Patent
1986-10-06
1987-11-17
Tapolcai, William E.
Refrigeration
Automatic control
By congealed removable product condition
62833, F25C 504
Patent
active
047064650
ABSTRACT:
An icemaker including a freezer mold having a front side and a back side with a plurality of partitioned walls disposed within the mold to define a plurality of cavities along the longitudinal central axis of the mold in which water is frozen to form ice pieces having a crescent shape with a flat side and an arcuate side joined to form two edge portions. A stripper member is disposed longitudinally along the front side of the mold and has a portion thereof above the cavities. An ice piece ejector is rotatable in only one direction and has its axle along the longitudinal central axis of the mold. An ice piece ejector guide is secured to the back side of the mold and located above the cavities longitudinally along the mold, aid guide extending laterally from the rear of the mold past the axle of the rotating ejector and spaced from the rotating ejector axle a distance slightly greater than the maximum thickness of the ice piece. The guide and rotating ejector cooperate to move the ice pieces above the cavities between the guide and axle of the rotating ejector and force the ice pieces onto the stripper member to thereby move any previously harvested ice pieces off the stripper member.
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General Electric Company
Reams Radford M.
Tapolcai William E.
Weidner Frederick P.
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