Dispensing – With discharge assistant – Movable or conveyer-type trap chamber
Patent
1988-02-26
1990-06-05
Huppert, Michael S.
Dispensing
With discharge assistant
Movable or conveyer-type trap chamber
222242, 62381, 221263, G01F 1110
Patent
active
049306855
ABSTRACT:
An ice dispensing bin has an inward and rearward sloped front wall and a downward and forward sloped semi-cylindrical bottom wall. The rear wall and side walls and an upper portion of the front wall are generally vertical. A paddle wheel is positioned in a recess in the sloping front wall. The paddle wheel has a circular plate lying along a central portion of the annular recess. A truncated conical plate converges axially about 10 degrees from the circular plate. Paddles extend radially from the conical plate. Turbine blade-like paddles curve circumferentially and then axially and stop short of the front wall to trap and move ice along the front wall of the recess as the paddle wheel is rotated. A shaft extends through the paddle wheel and rearwardly to a bearing in the rear wall. An angular arm on the shaft breaks ice bridges as the shaft rotates with the paddle wheel. A speed reducer mounted on the front of the sloping wall and a motor mounted on a lower portion of the speed reducer turn the paddle wheel and ice bridge breaker. A switch opens the gate and starts movement of the paddle wheel.
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Creighton Wray James
Huppert Michael S.
Noland Kenneth
SerVend International, Inc.
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