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In an under the counter ice making machine for producing an ice product, a two-part freezer compartment is removably assembled to a frame. The freezer compartment includes an upwardly open box-shaped lower ice bin and an upper hood that is removably mounted in covering relation to the top of the ice

In an under the counter ice making machine for producing an ice product, a two-part freezer compartment is removably assembled to a frame. The freezer compartment includes an upwardly open box-shaped lower ice bin and an upper hood that is removably mounted in covering relation to the top of the ice bin. The ice bin is mounted to and removed from the frame only when the hood is removed. The ice bin has a rear end wall and a pair of sidewalls extending vertically upwardly and the bin is mounted by rotating the bin and its rear end wall into position on the frame and seated behind an abutment shoulder extending from the frame. Thereafter, the hood is assembled to and removed from the ice bin by a horizontal sliding movement of its sidewalls along the top surfaces of the bin sidewalls. Removal of the bin is accomplished by forcing the rear end wall against the shoulder and then simultaneously rotating the entire bin, thereby causing the forward end to lift vertically upwardly from the base and the rear end wall to drop below the abutment shoulder, and moving the bin horizontally outwardly.

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An under the counter ice making machine comprising: a base plate; a two-part freezer compartment removably assembled to said base plate and including a hood having a top panel and an upwardly open ice bin having a rear wall extending vertically and adapted to be removably covered by the hood; a pair

An under the counter ice making machine comprising: a base plate; a two-part freezer compartment removably assembled to said base plate and including a hood having a top panel and an upwardly open ice bin having a rear wall extending vertically and adapted to be removably covered by the hood; a pair of support channels extending upwardly of the base plate towards the top panel of the hood; a support bracket spaced above the base plate and connected to each of the support channels; refrigeration means for making ice, including a condenser, condenser fan, and compressor supported on the base plate and an evaporator mounted to said support bracket; and an evaporator bracket positioned above the evaporator and including an abutment shoulder adapted to seat against the rear wall of said ice bin, said hood being removably mounted to or removed from the bin in a horizontal sliding movement removal from the bin, and said bin being removably mounted to or removed from to the frame only with the hood removed and by a combined action of rotating the bin relative to the plate whereby to pivot the rear end wall of the bin into or from seated engagement with the abutment shoulder and sliding the bin.