Refrigeration – With comminutor or cutter
Patent
1982-02-25
1983-09-20
Tapolcai, William E.
Refrigeration
With comminutor or cutter
62344, 62459, F25C 518
Patent
active
044048173
ABSTRACT:
A satellite ice plant operable by a single operator bagging ice comprising ice making apparatus; comminution apparatus for reducing the ice to a size for bagging; refrigerated storage housing which is cooled below freezing point of the ice and has a storage bin for storing the ice, conveyor for conveying the ice from the comminution apparatus to the storage bin, freeze-up prevention device disposed in the refrigerated storage housing and operable to prevent freezing up of the conveyor, ice break up apparatus for breaking up the stored ice for bagging, second conveyor interiorly of the refrigerated storage housing for conveying the ice to a bagging machine, and controls operable to automatically effect the operation of the respective elements to supply ice to the bagging machine at the signal of a operator bagging ice. Also disclosed are specific preferred pieces of apparatus for moving the stored ice, breaking it into crushed ice size, snow removal and the like.
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