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An automatic ice making machine or apparatus of the type in which ice-making water is directed in jets upwards towards a freezing grid or chamber having a large number of freezing cells. The apparatus has an ice-cutting frame having second partitioning plates at a preset spacing from and in oppositi

An automatic ice making machine or apparatus of the type in which ice-making water is directed in jets upwards towards a freezing grid or chamber having a large number of freezing cells. The apparatus has an ice-cutting frame having second partitioning plates at a preset spacing from and in opposition to the lower ends of the first partitioning plates of said freezing cells, and a heating means provided to the cutting frame. The second partitioning plates are heated by a hot gas pipe for melting and cutting the ice formed in the freezing cells the end of the ice formation state and the end of harvesting state being detected by a temperature sensor provided on the ice cutting frame.

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An automatic ice making machine, comprising: a freezing chamber having chamber partitioning plates separating said freezing chamber into a large number of freezing cells opening downward for forming therein ice products of predetermined vertical length, said chamber partitioning plates having bottom

An automatic ice making machine, comprising: a freezing chamber having chamber partitioning plates separating said freezing chamber into a large number of freezing cells opening downward for forming therein ice products of predetermined vertical length, said chamber partitioning plates having bottom surfaces; a rigid ice-cutting framework having ice-cutting partitioning plates separating said ice-cutting framework into open framework cells, said ice-cutting framework being spaced at a preset distance below said freezing chamber partitioning plates less than said predetermined vertical length and being fixed to said freezing chamber with said ice-cutting partitioning plates and framework cells respectively vertically aligned with said bottom surfaces of respective ones of said chamber partitioning plates and with respective ones of said freezing cells; means for directing ice making water upward from below said ice-cutting frame into repsective ones of said freezing cells through the framework cells aligned therewith; means for freezing the ice making water in and below said freezing cells during an ice production cycle so as to produce ice products in said freezing cells; and means for heating said ice-cutting partitioning plates during a harvesting cycle so as to melt at least part of the ice produced below said freezing cells.