EP0455057A2 - Distributeur-broyeur pour petits morceaux de glace - Google Patents

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EP0455057A2
EP0455057A2 EP19910106205 EP91106205A EP0455057A2 EP 0455057 A2 EP0455057 A2 EP 0455057A2 EP 19910106205 EP19910106205 EP 19910106205 EP 91106205 A EP91106205 A EP 91106205A EP 0455057 A2 EP0455057 A2 EP 0455057A2
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25C—PRODUCING, WORKING OR HANDLING ICE
    • F25C5/00—Working or handling ice
    • F25C5/20—Distributing ice
    • F25C5/24—Distributing ice for storing bins

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  • the invention relates to a dispensing and crushing device for small pieces of ice in conjunction with an ice-making device as an independent unit or, in particular, integrated in refrigerators and freezers, with a storage container which determines a filling level of these small pieces of ice and in which an inclined screw conveyor engages, the pitch of which corresponds to the size of the small pieces of ice to be transported is adapted, with a conveyor section of the screw conveyor in the free space above the fill level of the storage container, and in which the conveyor screw conveys the small pieces of ice into an optionally operable shredding device arranged in the region of the discharge recess.
  • a dispenser for small pieces of ice in connection with a household refrigerator in which the small pieces of ice are thrown out of an ice-making device and transported to the dispensing recess by a screw conveyor designed with open screw turns.
  • a crushing device can optionally be provided in the area of the discharge opening.
  • a crushing device for ice cubes is described in British Patent 1,337,647.
  • This device consists of a motorized toothed web parts connected to a screw conveyor, which press the pieces of ice against fixed segment parts engaging in their spaces and thereby crush them.
  • the crushing device can be switched over in two positions of use, in one position the uncrushed pieces of ice are ejected, while in the other position of use the pieces of ice are caught by an additional engaging rake part in front of the segment parts, so that they are crushed by the toothed web parts entering between the segment parts will.
  • the toothed web parts only serve to transport the pieces of ice during the comminution process and should not have any function in the free discharge of the uncrushed ice pieces, it can happen that the web parts unintentionally catch the ice pieces, press them against the segment parts and crush them.
  • the invention is based on the object of designing a dispensing and comminuting device for small pieces of ice so that the pieces of ice are optionally output one after the other and are comminuted only when the comminuting device is switched on. In addition, jamming of the ice cubes in the dispensing opening and continued dripping of melt water at the dispensing point should be avoided.
  • the upward conveying screw which is designed with open screw turns, lies partly in an adapted conveying trough of the storage container, which has a separating section at its upper end, which is designed in such a way that it promotes the delivery recess by dropping off the superfluous pieces of ice limited to small pieces of ice cream one after the other in the storage container.
  • the separating section preferably contains a squeegee, but it can also be expediently designed as a corresponding ejection recess in the storage container.
  • the required ejection recess corresponds essentially to the size of the pieces of ice to be dispensed. As a result, it is not necessary to collect the unnecessarily conveyed pieces of ice.
  • An additional advantage can optionally be achieved in that the conveyor section of the screw conveyor above the fill level of the storage container to the dispensing recess in a tubular, inclined Approach neck of the storage container is guided, which has a laterally open output recess, wherein a water return channel to the storage container is formed in the attachment nozzle. Due to the lateral attachment of the dispensing recess, a gutter-shaped lower section remains in the connecting piece, which directs melt water back into the storage container and there into the water drain.
  • Parts of the comminution device can advantageously be arranged at the upper end of the screw conveyor. These parts fulfill a double function, which consists firstly in the operating position "dispensing uncrushed ice pieces", ejecting them from the dispensing recess and secondly in the operating position "crushing" to press the ice pieces against indentable segment parts, in which case crushing into ice fragments occurs.
  • At least one web-like, radially directed transport element can be provided at the upper end of the screw conveyor, which engages between insertable segment parts.
  • the web-like transport element is advantageously toothed on its transport side in a manner known per se.
  • segment parts which can be pushed in through the laterally open dispensing recess are pivotably mounted with a common holder in the housing part of the comminution device in such a way that in the operating position "comminution”, engage between the web parts and in the operating position "delivery of uncrushed pieces of ice” can be withdrawn from the turning circle of the web parts and thus from the engagement in the spaces between the web parts.
  • the web parts also serve to eject the uncrushed pieces of ice without the need for an additional collecting element during the crushing.
  • the pivotable segment parts are expediently connected to a lifting magnet drive which, when the switch is actuated appropriately, engages them in the rotating circle between the web parts.
  • the engagement movement of the segment parts between the web parts can advantageously be limited by a stop fixed to the housing.
  • a combined dispensing and crushing device for small pieces of ice is created, in which the pieces of ice are conveyed individually to the dispensing recess, the web-like transport elements optionally acting as feed elements for the ejection recess or for the segment parts. Dripping off the pieces of ice remaining in the tubular connecting piece when the screw conveyor is at a standstill only results in a water reflux into the storage container without additional melt water dripping off at the dispensing point.
  • FIG. 1 shows a household refrigerator in which an ice maker, in particular for clear ice cubes, is installed.
  • the dispensing and comminuting device contains a storage container 1 which can be filled with pieces of ice up to a filling height h. Adherence to the filling level is ensured by known means not described in the drawing. Such a device for monitoring the fill level of the collecting container is given, for example, in German Patent 17 76 189.
  • An upward-conveying open screw conveyor 2 is arranged obliquely in the reservoir 1, which partly lies in an adapted conveyor trough 3 of the reservoir 1.
  • the one dividing line between the conveyor trough 3 and the inner wall surface of the storage container 1 is designated by position 4.
  • a squeegee 5 is provided at the upper end of the conveyor trough 3. This consists of a rounded molded part with a rounded running surface 6.
  • the screw conveyor 2 is guided above the fill level h of the storage container 1 in a connecting piece 7 of the storage container 1. This has a laterally open discharge recess 8. At the upper end of the screw conveyor 2 is the comminution device, of which only two web-like transport elements 9, 10 can be seen in FIG. 1.
  • the storage container 1 there is a schematically indicated ice-making device 11, in which hollow small pieces of ice 13 are frozen on cooling fingers 12. After a predetermined wall thickness of the small pieces of ice 13 has been reached, they are released by heating the cooling fingers 12 while moving the trough 14 away and fall into the storage container 1.
  • An electric drive motor 15 is provided for driving the screw conveyor 2.
  • the direction of rotation of the screw conveyor 2 is viewed counterclockwise from the drive motor 15.
  • segment parts 17 are provided with a common holder and can be swiveled about an axis 16 and have a smooth surface similar to a part of a cylinder part, the cylinder radius corresponding to the turning radius r.
  • These segment parts 17 can be inserted between the transport elements 9, 10 (cf. FIG. 1) by means of a lifting magnet drive 18 through the lateral discharge recess 8 of the connecting piece 7.
  • the engagement of the segment parts 17 is limited by a stop 19.
  • the segment parts 17 are retracted from the rotating circle of the transport elements 9, 10 under pre-tensioning of a compression spring 20 when the lifting magnet drive 18 is de-energized and no longer plunge into the connecting piece 7.
  • the transport elements 9, 10 serve to eject the pieces of ice 13 conveyed upwards by the screw conveyor 2 and move them for ejection through the side discharge recess 8.
  • the lower part of the neck piece 7 that remains remains a water return channel 21 through which water dripping from the ice cubes 13 is returned to the storage container.
  • Fig. 5 shows the operating position "shredding".
  • the toothed web-like transport elements 9, 10 press the piece of ice 13 against the smooth surfaces of the segment parts 17 that are completely retracted into their interstices by the lateral discharge recess 8.
  • one piece of ice 13 is crushed and its fragments 22 fall down through the laterally open discharge recess 8.
  • the segment parts 17 provided with a common holder are placed against the action of the helical compression spring on the stop 19 fixed to the housing by the lifting magnet drive 18.
  • the dispensing and crushing device for small pieces of ice explained above can either form an independent structural unit as an ice-making unit or be designed as a component of a refrigerator or freezer.

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EP91106205A 1990-04-30 1991-04-18 Distributeur-broyeur pour petits morceaux de glace Expired - Lifetime EP0455057B1 (fr)

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DE4013825A DE4013825A1 (de) 1990-04-30 1990-04-30 Ausgabe- und zerkleinerungsvorrichtung fuer kleineisstuecke
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US5125242A (en) 1992-06-30
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DE59102220D1 (de) 1994-08-25
DE4013825A1 (de) 1991-10-31
EP0455057A3 (en) 1992-05-06
ES2056515T3 (es) 1994-10-01
ATE108889T1 (de) 1994-08-15

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