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A cube ice storage and dispensing bin in the form of a large stationary elongated insulated tank of generally cylindrical configuration having a large pool of water therein maintained substantially at water freezing temperature in liquid state. The tank has a pair of longitudinally extending screw c

A cube ice storage and dispensing bin in the form of a large stationary elongated insulated tank of generally cylindrical configuration having a large pool of water therein maintained substantially at water freezing temperature in liquid state. The tank has a pair of longitudinally extending screw conveyor flights, which may be of skeleton-like construction, arranged along axes paralleling the longitudinal center axis of the cylindrical tank and located to opposite sides of the center axis. The screw conveyor flights are journalled in the end walls and driven at a slow speed producing gentle agitation and and tumbling of ice cubes floating in the pool to disrupt tendencies of the ice cubes to form multicube frozen blocks of ice and maintain a slurry of ice cubes and water therein. Transverse conveyor screws are provided adjacent each end for transferring floating ice cubes from an end region of one of the pair of longitudinal flights to the other, and a discharge conveyor having a conveyor screw and a cage-like trough is provided at the discharge end to selectively withdraw ice cubes from the pool of water and discharge them externally of the tank.

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