Ice maker with novel mold-closing ice-making structure

Abstract

The utility model discloses an ice maker with a novel mold-closing ice-making structure. The ice-making mechanism comprises an ice-making fixed mold, an ice-making movable mold and a mold-closing mechanism, wherein the ice-making fixed mold and the ice-making movable mold are arranged front and back; the mold-closing mechanism is used for driving the ice-making movable mold to perform mold-closing work on the ice-making fixed mold; the mold closing mechanism comprises a driving motor, a driving screw rod and a screw rod nut; the driving motor is fixedly mounted on the ice-making box body, one end of the driving screw is in transmission connection with the driving motor, and the other end of the driving screw penetrates through the ice-making movable mold to be connected with the ice-making fixed mold; the screw rod nut is mounted in the ice-making movable mold and is nested on the driving screw rod; automatic mold closing and mold splitting processing work of the ice-making fixed mold and the ice-making movable mold is achieved through the mold closing mechanism, and the effect of automatic processing in the ice-making processing process is achieved; and the mold closing mechanism is of a screw type driving structure, stable mold opening and mold closing machining actions can be achieved in the operation process, the overall structure is simpler and more efficient, the application cost of the overall structure is lower, and the requirements of the current industry are better met.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model belongs to ice maker technical field relates to a kind of ice maker with novel die ice structure. BACKGROUND

[0002] At present, when preparing cold drink, generally, ice block or ice sand etc. is directly placed in drink to make the taste of drink better. Common ice block preparation is mainly to introduce the cold gas prepared by refrigerating machine into ice making module, water is introduced into the ice making module, and the water can be frozen into ice block under the action of cold gas, and then the ice block is taken out for use.

[0003] However, in the prior art, the ice making equipment is mainly taken out by artificial way after completing ice making work, and the overall automation degree is low, and the ice block is also easily polluted in the ice taking process. Therefore, the same applicant of the present application proposes CN202410574754.1 double-shaft ice maker with automatic ice discharging device and ice making method thereof; in the application, the die module and the ice discharging module are set to realize the processing effect of automatic die combining, die separating and feeding during ice making processing of the ice making equipment, so as to solve the above technical problems. However, the die module and the ice discharging module of the technical scheme have a relatively complicated overall structure, and the application cost of the overall structure is high. Therefore, the present application proposes a die combining and ice discharging equipment with simplified structure to reduce the application cost of the overall structure. UTILITY MODEL CONTENT

[0004] In order to solve the above technical problems, the utility model adopts the following technical solutions:

[0005] An ice maker with novel die ice structure, comprising: an ice making box body and an ice making system and an ice making module arranged in the ice making box body;

[0006] The upper end of the ice making box body is an ice making cavity, and the ice making mechanism is arranged in the ice making cavity. The lower end of the ice making box body is an ice storage chamber.

[0007] The ice making mechanism comprises: an ice making fixed die, an ice making movable die arranged in front and back, and a die combining mechanism for driving the ice making movable die to combine with the ice making fixed die;

[0008] The die combining mechanism comprises: a driving motor, a driving screw and a screw nut. The driving motor is fixedly installed on the ice making box body. One end of the driving screw is in transmission connection with the driving motor, and the other end penetrates through the ice making movable die and is connected with the ice making fixed die.

[0009] The screw nut is installed in the ice making movable die and is nested on the driving screw.

[0010] As a further scheme of the utility model: the mold closing mechanism further comprises: two groups of parallelly arranged moving guide rods, the moving guide rods are arranged in parallel with the driving screw rod, one end of the moving guide rod is fixedly installed on the ice making fixed mold, and the other end is in sliding fit with the ice making movable mold.

[0011] As a further scheme of the utility model: the ice making fixed mold comprises: a fixed mold base fixedly installed in the ice making cavity, and a cooling pipe connected with the ice making system is arranged in the fixed mold base.

[0012] The ice making movable mold comprises: a movable mold base movably arranged in the ice making cavity.

[0013] The opposite end faces of the fixed mold base and the movable mold base are machining faces, and a plurality of forming mold cavities are formed on the machining faces.

[0014] The upper end of each forming mold cavity is provided with a water injection hole; the ice making mold further comprises: a water supply pipe, and a plurality of water supply joints are formed at the end of the water supply pipe, each water supply joint extends to the upper end of the water injection hole of each forming mold cavity, and water supply is realized.

[0015] As a further scheme of the utility model: the lower end of the movable mold base is provided with a water collecting box for realizing overflow water collection, and the water collecting box is connected with the water supply pipe through a pipeline.

[0016] As a further scheme of the utility model: the positions corresponding to each forming mold cavity on the movable mold base and the fixed mold base are provided with a water guide strip, and when the movable mold base and the fixed mold base are closed, the water guide strips cooperate to form a semi-enclosed water guide groove, and the water injection hole is located in the position of the water guide groove.

[0017] As a further scheme of the utility model: heating modules independently working are arranged in the ice making fixed mold and the ice making movable mold.

[0018] As a further scheme of the utility model: the ice making box further comprises: a cleaning spray pipe for realizing spray cleaning and a cleaning water pipe for supplying water to the cleaning spray pipe, and the cleaning spray pipe is arranged at the upper end of the ice making fixed mold.

[0019] As a further scheme of the utility model: the ice making box is further provided with a sterilization mechanism for realizing sterilization in the ice making box.

[0020] As a further scheme of the utility model: the fixed mold base and the movable mold base are made of 6061 aluminum alloy material.

[0021] The ice making mold mechanism has the advantages that the ice making mold mechanism realizes automatic mold closing and mold opening of ice making mold and ice making movable mold, realizes automatic processing effect in the ice making processing process, and has stable mold opening and mold closing processing actions in the running process, and the overall structure is simple and efficient, the overall structure has lower application cost, and the overall structure is more in line with the demand of the industry. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0022] Fig. 1 is a structural schematic diagram of the ice making mold mechanism in the utility model.

[0023] Fig. 2 is a structural schematic diagram of the ice making mold mechanism in the utility model.

[0024] Fig. 3 is a mold closing working schematic diagram of the ice making mold mechanism in the utility model.

[0025] Fig. 4 is a structural schematic diagram of the mold closing mechanism in the utility model.

[0026] Fig. 5 is a structural schematic diagram of the spraying system in the utility model. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0027] The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described in the description of the embodiments of the present application in combination with the drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present application, not all the embodiments of the present application. It should be understood that the present application is not limited to the example embodiments disclosed herein. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative work fall within the scope of protection of the present application.

[0028] In the description of the utility model, it should be understood that the terms "length", "width", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer" and the like indicate the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for the convenience of describing the utility model and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements indicated must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation of the utility model.

[0029] In addition, the terms "first", "second" are only for the purpose of description, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of the indicated technical features. Therefore, the features limited by "first", "second" can explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the features. In the description of the utility model, the meaning of "multiple" is two or more than two, unless otherwise specifically limited.

[0030] In the embodiments of the present application, unless otherwise explicitly specified and limited, the terms "mounting", "connecting", "connecting", "fixing" and the like should be understood in a broad sense. For example, it can be fixedly connected, or it can be detachably connected, or it can be integrated; it can be mechanically connected, or it can be electrically connected; it can be directly connected, or it can be indirectly connected through an intermediate medium; it can be the communication between two elements or the interaction relationship between two elements. For ordinary skilled in the art, the specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood according to the specific circumstances.

[0031] Please refer to Figs. 1-5 In the embodiments of the present application, an ice maker with a novel mold ice making structure comprises an ice making box body 1 and an ice making system (compressor) and an ice making mold group arranged in the ice making box body 1.

[0032] The upper end of the ice making box body 1 is an ice making cavity 11, and the ice making mechanism is arranged in the ice making cavity 11. The lower end of the ice making box body 1 is an ice storage chamber 12, and the ice blocks formed by the ice making mechanism will fall into the ice storage chamber 12 for storage.

[0033] The ice making mechanism comprises: an ice making fixed mold 7, an ice making movable mold 3 arranged in front and back, and a mold closing mechanism 2 for driving the ice making movable mold 3 to close the mold with the ice making fixed mold 7.

[0034] The mold closing mechanism 2 comprises a driving motor 24, a driving screw 21 and a screw nut 23. The driving motor 24 is fixedly installed on the ice making box body 1, one end of the driving screw 21 is in transmission connection with the driving motor 24, and the other end penetrates through the ice making movable mold 3 and is connected with the ice making fixed mold 7.

[0035] The screw nut 23 is installed in the ice making movable mold 3 and is nested on the driving screw 21. During the ice making process, the driving motor 24 drives the driving screw 21 to rotate, so as to drive the screw nut 23, move the ice making movable mold 3 to the ice making fixed mold 7 for mold closing, and then complete the ice making work in the ice making movable mold 3 through the ice making system.

[0036] When demolding, the driving motor 24 drives the driving screw 21 to reverse, so that the ice making movable mold 3 moves backward to the initial position, and the initial position of the ice making movable mold 3 is located at the upper end of the ice storage chamber 12. The ice blocks are demolded from the ice making movable mold 3 and sent into the ice storage chamber 12, and the ice making work is completed.

[0037] Further, in order to improve the stability of the ice-making movable mold 3 during movement, the mold closing mechanism 2 further comprises: two groups of parallel arranged moving guide rods 22, the moving guide rods 22 are arranged in parallel with the driving screw rod 21, one end of the moving guide rod 22 is fixedly installed on the ice-making fixed mold 7, and the other end is in sliding fit with the ice-making movable mold 3; to realize the guiding work of the ice-making movable mold 3 during movement.

[0038] Further, the ice-making fixed mold 7 comprises: a fixed mold base 71 fixedly installed in the ice-making cavity 11, the fixed mold base 71 is provided with a cooling pipe 8 connected with the ice-making system, the cooling pipe 8 is in contact with the fixed mold base 71;

[0039] The ice-making movable mold 3 comprises: a movable mold base 31 movably arranged in the ice-making cavity 11;

[0040] The opposite end faces of the fixed mold base 71 and the movable mold base 31 are machining surfaces, and a plurality of molding cavities 32 are formed on the machining surfaces; when the fixed mold base 71 and the movable mold base 31 are closed, the corresponding molding cavities 32 are matched to form ice-making cavity structures including but not limited to spherical, rhombic, square and bullet-shaped structures; to meet the preparation of ice blocks of different shapes.

[0041] The upper end of each molding cavity 32 is provided with a water injection hole 9; the ice-making mold further comprises: a water supply pipe 5, the open end of the water supply pipe 5 is connected with an external water supply device, and the end of the water supply pipe 5 is formed with a plurality of water supply joints 6, each water supply joint 6 extends to the upper end of the water injection hole 9 of each molding cavity 32 to realize water supply;

[0042] During the ice-making process, the water supply pipe 5 continuously injects water into the molding cavity 32, and the overflowed water flows out of the water injection hole 9 to realize the effect of flowing water ice-making, so that the formed ice block can be transparent and more beautiful.

[0043] Further, the lower end of the movable mold base 31 is provided with a water collecting box 10 for collecting overflowed water, the water collecting box 10 is connected with the water supply pipe 5 through a pipeline to realize the collection and circulation of overflowed water during the flowing water ice-making process, which can effectively reduce the water consumption during the ice-making process and avoid water entering the ice holding chamber 12 to affect the ice blocks in the ice holding chamber 12.

[0044] Further, the movable mold base 31 and the fixed mold base 71 are provided with water guide strips 4 corresponding to the positions of each molding cavity 32, and the movable mold base 31 and the fixed mold base 71 are closed to form a semi-enclosed water guide groove 41, the water injection hole 9 is located in the position of the water guide groove 41, and the overflowed water from the water injection hole 9 is guided into the water collecting box 10 through the water guide groove 41 to realize the effect of water collection and circulation.

[0045] Further, in order to realize the ice-making process demolding work, ice-making fixed mold 7 and ice-making movable mold 3 are provided with independently working heating modules (not shown in the figure); in the ice-making demolding work, the heating module in the ice-making fixed mold 7 works in advance, so that the ice block completes the demolding from the ice-making fixed mold 7, and when the ice-making movable mold 3 retreats to the original position, the heating module in the ice-making movable mold 3 works, so that the ice block falls into the ice-containing chamber 12, and the segmented demolding work is completed.

[0046] Further, the ice-making box 1 further comprises: a cleaning spray pipe 13 for realizing spray cleaning, and a cleaning water pipe 14 for supplying water to the cleaning spray pipe 13; the opening end of the cleaning water pipe 14 is connected to an external water supply device, and the cleaning spray pipe 13 is arranged at the upper end of the ice-making fixed mold 7, so that the cleaning work of the ice maker can be realized in the form of spray cleaning.

[0047] Further, the ice-making box 1 is further provided with a sterilization mechanism for realizing the ice-making box 1, so that the internal automatic cleaning effect of the ice maker can be realized by the sterilization mechanism cooperating with the spray cleaning system; the sterilization mechanism can adopt one or more of ultraviolet sterilization, ozone sterilization, and heating sterilization devices, but is not limited thereto.

[0048] Further, the fixed mold base 71 and the movable mold base 31 are made of 6061 aluminum alloy material, which has good temperature conduction performance and can effectively improve the ice-making efficiency.

[0049] It should also be noted that the relational terms herein such as first and second and the like are used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another, without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Moreover, the terms "comprises", "comprising", or any other variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but can include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element preceded by "comprises a" does not, without more constraints, foreclose the existence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

[0050] The above description of disclosed embodiments enables a person skilled in the art to implement or use the present application. Various modifications to these embodiments will be apparent to those skilled in the art, and the general principles defined herein can be implemented in other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the present application. Therefore, the present application will not be limited to the embodiments shown herein, but will conform to the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

Claims

1. An ice maker having a novel molded ice structure, characterized by, The application relates to an ice-making box body and an ice-making system and an ice-making module arranged in the ice-making box body. The upper end of the ice-making box body is an ice-making cavity, and an ice-making mechanism is arranged in the ice-making cavity; the lower end of the ice-making box body is an ice-keeping chamber. The ice-making mechanism comprises an ice-making fixed mold, an ice-making movable mold arranged in front of and behind the ice-making fixed mold, and a mold closing mechanism used for driving the ice-making movable mold to close the mold with the ice-making fixed mold. The mold closing mechanism comprises a driving motor, a driving screw and a screw nut; the driving motor is fixedly installed on the ice-making box body, one end of the driving screw is in transmission connection with the driving motor, and the other end of the driving screw penetrates through the ice-making movable mold and is connected with the ice-making fixed mold. The screw nut is installed in the ice-making movable mold and is nested on the driving screw. The mold closing mechanism further comprises two groups of moving guide rods arranged in parallel; the moving guide rods are arranged in parallel with the driving screw, one end of each moving guide rod is fixedly installed on the ice-making fixed mold, and the other end of each moving guide rod is in sliding fit with the ice-making movable mold.

2. An icemaker having a novel molded ice configuration according to claim 1, wherein, The ice-making fixed mold comprises a fixed mold base fixedly installed in the ice-making cavity, and the fixed mold base is provided with a cooling pipe connected with the ice-making system.

3. The ice maker having a new type of molded ice structure according to claim 1, wherein, The ice-making movable mold comprises a movable mold base movably arranged in the ice-making cavity. The opposite end faces of the fixed mold base and the movable mold base are machining faces and are both formed with a plurality of forming mold cavities. The upper end of each forming mold cavity is provided with a water injection hole; the ice-making module further comprises a water supply pipe, and the water supply pipe is formed with a plurality of water supply joints at the tail end; each water supply joint extends to the upper end of the water injection hole of each forming mold cavity to realize water supply. The corresponding forming mold cavities on the fixed mold base and the movable mold base are matched to form ice-making cavity structures including but not limited to spherical, rhombic, square and bullet-shaped structures.

4. The ice maker having a new type of molded ice structure according to claim 1, wherein, The lower end of the movable mold base is provided with a water collecting box used for collecting overflow water, and the water collecting box is connected with the water supply pipe through a pipeline.

5. An ice maker having a novel molded ice structure according to claim 3, wherein, Water guide strips are arranged on the movable mold base and the fixed mold base at positions corresponding to each forming mold cavity; when the movable mold base and the fixed mold base are closed, the water guide strips are matched to form a semi-enclosed water guide groove, and the water injection hole is located in the position of the water guide groove.

6. An ice maker having a novel molded ice structure according to claim 5, wherein, Heating modules independently working in the ice-making fixed mold and the ice-making movable mold are arranged.

7. An ice maker having a novel molded ice configuration according to any one of claims 1 or 3, wherein, The ice-making box body further comprises a cleaning spray pipe used for realizing spray cleaning and a cleaning water pipe used for supplying water for the cleaning spray pipe, and the cleaning spray pipe is arranged at the upper end of the ice-making fixed mold.

8. An icemaker having a novel molded ice configuration according to any one of claims 1 or 3, wherein, The ice-making box body is further provided with a sterilization mechanism used for realizing sterilization in the ice-making box body.

9. An icemaker having a novel molded ice configuration according to claim 8, wherein, The fixed mold base and the movable mold base are both made of 6061 aluminum alloy.

10. The ice maker having a new type of a molded ice structure according to claim 3, wherein, ​

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