Ice conveyer

Abstract

An ice making conveyer producing ice cubes in any size and form designed to be utilized in household or commercial units. This conveyer having three possible shapes: triangle shape of the ice making conveyer, square shape of ice making conveyer and oval or circular shape of the ice making conveyer. Conveyer might be utilized in three types of the refrigerators: where freezer is located on the top of food section of the refrigerator, where freezer is located side by side, no matter on the right or left side of the food section of the refrigerator, where freezer is located underneath the food section of the refrigerator. Present conveyer includes a plastic frame and conveyer device that traverse between freezer and food section of the refrigerator or inside of the freezer. This conveyer allows easy, inexpensive, safe, clean, and compact way of producing ice cubes in any size and form.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTIONThis invention is generally relates to the field of ice cube making machines. In particular, it relates to an ice cube making conveyer that includes a plastic frame and conveyer device that traverse between freezer and food section of the refrigerator or inside of the freezer. This ice making conveyer is designed to be utilized in household or commercial units. This conveyer allows easy, inexpensive, safe, clean, and compact way of producing ice cubes in any size and form.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONGenerally, an ice maker is installed in a refrigerator or a vending machine to make ice cubes out of water which is supplied to the ice maker.Two common types of ice making machines exists: household units that are combined with refrigerators, and commercial units that are used by restaurants, bars, hospitals, hotels, and other establishments that require large amounts of ice.A problem faced by many ice cube makers is that of corrosion. Ice cube maker housi...

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Benefits of technology

Present invention intended to be utilized for the ice cube making conveyer, which includes a plastic frame and conveyer device that traverse between freezer and food section of the refrigerator or inside of the freezer. This ice making conveyer is designed to be utilized in household or commercial units. This conveyer allows easy, inexpensive, safe, clean, and compact way of producing ice cubes in any size and form.

Location of the drive pulley with the drive unit of the ice making conveyer does not have a particular location in the design of the present invention of the ice making conveyer because rotating of the conveyer could be realized in any point of the conveyer along the entire length or entire periphery of the conveyer's transporting tape. Such design of the conveyer and its drive pulley flexible location gives considerable opportunity in diversification and variety of the potential design of the conveyer. Such design of the conveyer and its drive pulley flexible location also gives more effective utilization of the volume of the refrigerator and allows easy, inexpensive, safe, clean, and compact way of producing ice cubes in any size and form.

Present invention of the ice making conveyer offer to situate ice bin inside of the food section of the refrigerator for the following advantages:a. It is easy to achieve required temperature in the range of 24°-28° F. from the air coming from the form of the ice made out of rubber, plastic, or silicon.b. Under temperature range of 24°-28° F. ice cubes appear to be fresh and shining and do not absorb the smell or odor from the refrigerator. Moreover, under temperature range of 24°-28° F. ice cubes do not freeze together which occurring under lower temperature range. Ice cubes produced under temperature range of 24°-28° F. appear to be clear and not cloudy in the drink.

Proposed design of the present invention of the ice maker conveyer allows create ice cubes in various sizes and shapes in comparison to the currently available designs of the ice makers where ice cubes must be in particular shape and size for certain types of refrigerators. Proposed design of the present invention of the ice maker conveyer allows refrain from currently common device “crash ice”, which responsible for the crashing of the ice in order to discharge it from the ice making conveyer and into the ice bin.

Problems solved by technology

A problem faced by many ice cube makers is that of corrosion.

Ice cube maker housings are traditionally made of metal which eventually corrodes due to water splashing about the interior of the machine when water is dripped onto the mold and when the cubes are released from the mold during the harvesting operation, and also due to humidity that results from the continuous presence of liquid water in the machine.

Internal components of the ice cube maker exposed to the splashing water and humidity also suffer from corrosion.

Electronic components face the additional hazard of short circuiting in this watery environment.

Another common problem icemakers face is the difficulty of servicing.

Moreover, problem existing icemakers face is that of the metal particles or powder inserted within the ice cubes.

Another existing icemakers' drawback is that the all parts, units and junctions of the ice maker body are solidly jointed together.

Due to such design a stoppage or even a breakage of the mechanism will occur in the case of formation of the condensate or development of the ice.

Further, design of some of the existing icemakers does not provide any method of filling up ice forms with the water in two planes, which requires perfect level.

Other designs have problem with the lower part of the conveyer, which has sagging of the conveyer which leads to inability of adequate contact of the heater with the conveyer.

Another common drawback existing in the current ice making machines is that of the location of the transmission outside of the icemaker's frame therefore it must be located inside of the refrigerator's wall or in ice bin.

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