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An ice body maker having a storage bin into which ice bodies are delivered from ice slab cutting structure. The ice bodies in the storage bin are illuminated from a lamp which utilizes the grid wires of the cutting structure as a diffusion structure for minimizing glare, facilitating observation of

An ice body maker having a storage bin into which ice bodies are delivered from ice slab cutting structure. The ice bodies in the storage bin are illuminated from a lamp which utilizes the grid wires of the cutting structure as a diffusion structure for minimizing glare, facilitating observation of the ice bodies and removal thereof by the user. The lamp is located so as to direct the light therefrom primarily away from the access opening for further improved illumination of the ice bodies. The lamp is preselected to provide sufficient illumination to illuminate the ice bodies through an ice slab carried on the grid structure as during a slab cutting operation and utilizes the ice slab itself as a further light diffusion element. Still further diffusion of the light for improved uniformity on the ice bodies is effected by the reticulation of the ice slab effected by the grid wires in cutting through the slab during the slab cutting operation.

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In a refrigeration apparatus having a cabinet defining an access opening, a bin in said cabinet for storage of ice bodies therein, and closure means for providing selective access to said bin through said opening for removal of a desired quantity of ice bodies therefrom, improved illuminating means

In a refrigeration apparatus having a cabinet defining an access opening, a bin in said cabinet for storage of ice bodies therein, and closure means for providing selective access to said bin through said opening for removal of a desired quantity of ice bodies therefrom, improved illuminating means for illuminating the ice bodies in the bin for observation thereof through said opening, said illuminating means comprising: ice forming means for forming an ice slab; a lamp; means for mounting the lamp in said cabinet spaced above said bin; grid means for receiving the ice slab from said ice forming means, said grid means being spaced below said lamp and above said bin, said grid means defining means for diffusing light shining from said lamp onto the ice bodies in said bin, said grid means comprising heating wire means; and means for energizing said heating wire means for cutting an ice slab received thereon into a plurality of ice bodies and permit the ice bodies to fall from the grid into said bin, said lamp providing sufficient light for diffusively illuminating the ice bodies in said bin through said grid means and an ice slab on said grid means.