Apparatus for storing and dispensing particulate ice
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
B67D-005/62
출원번호
US-0181321
(1980-08-25)
발명자
/ 주소
Lents Charles M. (Leon Valley TX) Swanson Craig A. (San Antonio TX)
출원인 / 주소
Stainless Icetainer Company (San Antonio TX 02)
인용정보
피인용 횟수 :
12인용 특허 :
3
초록▼
Dispenser apparatus for particulate ice and/or ice cooled beverage has an ice bin with upright walls about a substantially vertical axis, a bottom canted rearwardly, a transverse ice discharge chute coplanar with the bin bottom and having a width continually divergent from the bin, a metallic ice di
Dispenser apparatus for particulate ice and/or ice cooled beverage has an ice bin with upright walls about a substantially vertical axis, a bottom canted rearwardly, a transverse ice discharge chute coplanar with the bin bottom and having a width continually divergent from the bin, a metallic ice dispensing chute point is secured in a resin bin wall on a downstream side of a dispensing rotor sweep and a self-closing dispensing door on an outlet of the chute has a barrier and a limit stop for placing the barrier in the path of ice being dispensed when the door is fully opened, an elongate drainage slot for melt water is in the bin bottom and extends radially outward from an axis of dispensing rotor rotation, a drain port extends from within the drain slot and is at a level below a level of the chute outlet, an ice dispensing rotor is within the bin and is revolvable about an axis canted rearwardly from the axis of the bin; the rotor has a hub, a ring, a plurality of paddlewheels mounted to the ring, entry rings on top of the paddlewheels for precluding admittance of oversize ice into the paddlewheels, and a helical agitator above the paddlewheels, the agitator has an axis eccentric to both of the rotor axis and the bin axis, and a separator shelf and barrier is above the rotor for lifting oversize ice off of the entry rings; a cold plate for cooling beverage is sealed to the bottom of tubular bin walls and the plate and walls are structurally secured together by foamed-in-place thermal insulation, a motor mount for an ice dispenser motor and mounts for the bin assembly are embedded, and thermally isolated, and structurally retained in the assembly by the thermal insulation.
대표청구항▼
Apparatus for dispensing particulate ice and beverage, comprising: a. an ice bin having upright walls; b. a cold plate in a bottom of the bin, said cold plate having heat exchange means for cooling beverage flowing therethrough by melting of ice in the bin and atop the cold plate; c. an ice dispensi
Apparatus for dispensing particulate ice and beverage, comprising: a. an ice bin having upright walls; b. a cold plate in a bottom of the bin, said cold plate having heat exchange means for cooling beverage flowing therethrough by melting of ice in the bin and atop the cold plate; c. an ice dispensing chute extending from the bin; and d. an ice dispensing rotor directly above the cold plate, said rotor being selectively rotatable for expelling particulate ice out of the bin and into the dispensing chute, said rotor having: (1) a plurality of arcuately spaced apart paddlewheels on the outside of the rotor, for said expelling of the ice into the chute, (2) entry means on top of the paddlewheels for precluding entry of oversize ice into arcuate spaces between adjacent paddlewheels, and (3) a substantially open center section within the paddlewheels and entry means, the oversize ice being freely passable through the center section and onto the cold plate, for consumption of the oversize ice as cooling medium. In beverage dispenser apparatus having an ice bin, and a cold plate heat exchanger at the bottom of the bin, with ice being placeable in the bin and upon the plate for cooling beverage passed through the plate; the improvement comprising a unitized bin construction having: a. a rabbet around an upper surface of the cold plate, said upper surface being the bottom of the ice bin; b. an upright tubular shell mounted in the rabbet and to the plate, said shell extending upwardly and being the side wall of the ice bin; c. adhesive watertightly sealing the shell in and to the rabbet; d. thermal insulation physically secured to and enclosing the outside of both of the shell and the cold plate, said insulation structurally retaining the shell to the plate and having a substantially planar bottom surface and skin; and e. means for mounting of the bin, cold plate and insulation in and to the apparatus, said mounting means being on the insulation bottom surface.
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