초록

The invention relates to a marinecraft refrigeration and delivery ice product system having means for the delivery of ice product to remote vertical and horizontal locations in the marinecraft.

대표청구항 ▼

A potable fresh water ice making and delivery system for marine use, the system comprising: (a) a refrigeration circuit having an inlet supply of potable fresh water, said circuit located on the engine deck of a marine craft, the refrigeration circuit including an ice making assembly having a rotati

A potable fresh water ice making and delivery system for marine use, the system comprising: (a) a refrigeration circuit having an inlet supply of potable fresh water, said circuit located on the engine deck of a marine craft, the refrigeration circuit including an ice making assembly having a rotating auger-like extruder having a positive force mechanical ice unit output which is advanced and forced out of an outlet of said ice making assembly, said refrigeration circuit further including a water cooled condenser in which water for the operation thereof is drawn from ambient water about the marine craft; (b) a flexible conduit coupled to said output of said assembly, said conduit having length sufficient to reach upper levels of the marine craft and to reach horizontally remote locations from said refrigeration circuit, said flexible conduit, in combination with said extruder of said ice making assembly, defining a transport means for said ice unit in which, within said conduit, there is slideably advanced a column of said ice units in which said column is powered by said ice unit output of said extruder and in which said output of ice units of said extruder are in dynamic positive thrust contact with said column of ice units within said conduit; and (c) storage chambers located at outputs of said flexible conduit for accumulation and storage of potable ice products advanced out of said outlets by said dynamic positive thrust contact of said output of said extruder and movement of said column of ice units effected by said rotated extruder of the ice making assembly, whereby the output of the ice making assembly is effectively transported to desired locations within the marine craft remote from said refrigeration circuit.