CN218884346U

CN218884346U - Manual ice maker

Info

Publication number: CN218884346U
Application number: CN202222685414.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 寇胜楠; 王普; 郑元志; 于晓芳; 张植荣
Original assignee: Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Co Ltd; Haier Smart Home Co Ltd
Current assignee: Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Co Ltd; Haier Smart Home Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-10-12
Filing date: 2022-10-12
Publication date: 2023-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 2032-10-12

Abstract

The utility model provides a manual ice machine. The manual ice maker comprises a refrigeration box body and an ice making box arranged in the refrigeration box body in a drawing mode, wherein the ice making box comprises a box body and an ice making grid which is arranged in the box body in a rotating mode, and the ice making grid is configured to rotate between an ice making state with an upward opening and an ice removing state with a downward opening; the manual ice maker further comprises a limiting piece matched with the box body, and the limiting piece is arranged to limit the drawing stroke of the box body when the box body is drawn out from the refrigeration box body, so that the box body is prevented from being completely drawn out from the refrigeration box body. The utility model provides a manual ice machine can keep ice tray level when adding water.

Description

Manual ice maker

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an ice machine especially relates to a manual ice machine.

Background

An ice maker is a refrigeration machine that generates ice by passing water through a refrigeration system, and generally, ice is made by passing water through a device in a power-on state by using the refrigeration system and using the water as a carrier. Among them, a manual ice maker is a widely used household appliance, which is generally composed of an ice tray and a refrigerator set. The prior manual ice maker usually adopts drawer type ice grids, namely the ice grids are arranged on an ice maker main body as drawers so as to be convenient to take. However, in the ice maker, water needs to be injected after the ice tray is drawn out, manual operation is needed after the water is injected to ensure the level of the ice tray so as to prevent water in the ice tray from overflowing, and careful operation is needed when the ice tray is placed into the ice maker main body. In the prior art, a slide for an ice maker is disclosed, wherein an ice cube tray is rotatably arranged in an ice making box main body and is adjacent to a top opening, after ice making is finished, the ice cube tray can be rotated to remove ice, before ice making, an ice cube tray cover can be firstly turned over, the top opening is opened, then water is injected into the ice cube tray, the ice cube tray is not required to be integrally drawn out and added with water, and the water adding amount is not convenient to judge due to the refraction of the water when the ice cube tray is observed from the upper part.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a can keep the manual ice machine of ice tray level when adding water.

Particularly, the utility model provides a manual ice maker, including refrigeration box and the ice-making box that can set up in the refrigeration box with the pull, the ice-making box includes the box body and rotationally sets up the ice-making check in the box body, the ice-making check is configured to rotate between the ascending ice-making state of opening and the downward state of taking off ice of opening;

the manual ice maker further comprises a limiting piece matched with the box body, and the limiting piece is arranged to limit the drawing stroke of the box body when the box body is drawn out from the refrigeration box body, so that the box body is prevented from being completely drawn out from the refrigeration box body.

Further, the box body is provided with two opposite side walls;

the quantity of locating part is two, two the locating part respectively with the box body two lateral walls cooperation to the restriction the pull stroke of box body.

Further, the box has a front wall and a rear wall;

the limiting part is arranged above the side wall and is positioned between the front wall and the rear wall, the side wall is provided with a stopping part, and the stopping part is arranged to abut against the limiting part when the box body is pulled to a preset position from the interior of the refrigerating box body so as to limit the box body to continuously move outwards.

Further, the side walls include a front portion closer to the front wall and a rear portion closer to the rear wall and connected to the front portion;

the rear portion is formed with a recess portion recessed from a rear direction of the front portion to restrict movement of the ice making housing.

The ice receiving drawer is arranged in the refrigeration box body in a drawing mode and located below the ice making box to receive ice blocks demoulded from the ice making grids in an ice removing state with the opening downward.

Furthermore, a reset device is arranged between the ice making grid and the ice making box so that the ice making grid can be reset from an ice shedding state with a downward opening to an ice making state with an upward opening when rotating.

Further, still include the operating portion, the ice-making cube tray with the operating portion all be equipped with a plurality ofly, a plurality of mutual parallel arrangement between the ice-making cube tray, every ice-making cube tray all connects an operating portion.

Further, the operation part is arranged outside the wall surface of the ice making box and is connected with the ice making case through a rotating shaft penetrating through the wall surface of the ice making box.

Further, the operating part is a knob.

Furthermore, the limiting piece is provided with a limiting piece protrusion matched with the stepped structure of the side wall of the ice making box.

The utility model discloses a manual ice machine adopts drawer type ice tray to the ice tray sets up to rotatable, and the ice tray rotates between the ascending system ice state of opening and the decurrent state of deicing of opening controlledly, thereby conveniently freezes the ice-cube dislocation, and this ice machine need take out the back water injection with the ice tray, and the box body can be avoided from taking out completely in the refrigeration box to the locating part, thereby can keep the ice tray level in the use, prevents the watering.

Further, the utility model discloses a manual ice machine uses and connects the ice drawer cooperation pivoted ice making cell between the ascending system ice state of opening and the decurrent state of deicing of opening, connects the ice drawer and can accept the ice-cube after the system ice drawing of patterns, conveniently takes the ice-cube fast.

The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

Some specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail hereinafter, by way of illustration and not by way of limitation, with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numbers in the drawings identify the same or similar elements or components. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic front view of a manual ice maker according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a partially schematic elevational view of the ice-making housing and refrigeration case of the manual ice-making machine arrangement of FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a schematic elevation view of an ice-making housing of the manual ice-maker apparatus shown in fig. 1;

FIG. 4 is a partially schematic cross-sectional view of the ice making housing and the refrigeration housing of the manual ice maker apparatus shown in FIG. 1 with the ice making housing fully inserted into the refrigeration housing;

FIG. 5 is a partial schematic cross-sectional view of the ice-making housing and refrigeration case of the manual ice-making machine arrangement of FIG. 1 with the ice-making housing controllably withdrawn away from the refrigeration case;

fig. 6 is a partially schematic elevational view of the ice making housing and the refrigeration case of the manual ice maker apparatus shown in fig. 1, with the ice making housing controllably withdrawn away from the refrigeration case.

Detailed Description

In the description of the present embodiments, reference to the description of the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "another embodiment," or "specifically," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

Fig. 1 is a schematic front view of a manual ice maker according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a partially schematic elevational view of the ice making housing 10 and the refrigerating case 4 of the manual ice maker apparatus shown in fig. 1. The manual ice maker comprises a refrigeration box body 4 and an ice making box 10 which can be arranged in the refrigeration box body in a drawing and pulling mode, the ice making box 10 comprises a box body and an ice making grid 2 which is arranged in the box body in a rotating mode, the ice making grid 2 rotates between an ice making state with an upward opening and an ice removing state with a downward opening in a controlled mode, the manual ice maker further comprises a limiting piece 42 matched with the box body, and the limiting piece 42 is arranged to limit the drawing and pulling stroke of the box body when the box body is drawn out from the refrigeration box body 4 so as to avoid the situation that the box body is completely drawn out from the refrigeration box body 4. The manual ice maker in the embodiment adopts drawer type ice grids which are arranged to be rotatable, the ice grids are controlled to rotate between an ice making state with an upward opening and an ice removing state with a downward opening, so that frozen ice blocks can be conveniently removed, the ice grids need to be pulled out and then filled with water, the limiting piece 42 can prevent the box body from being completely pulled out of the refrigeration box body 4, and therefore the ice grids can be kept horizontal in the using process and water sprinkling can be prevented.

It should be noted that in the description of the present embodiment, it is understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "peripheral", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and encompass, for example, being fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integral to one another; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be interconnected within two elements or in a relationship where two elements interact with each other unless otherwise specifically limited. Those skilled in the art should understand the specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention according to specific situations.

According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, refrigeration box 4 includes the shell and locates the refrigeration circuit in the shell, and 4 shells of refrigeration box are the cuboid box-like, and the refrigeration circuit includes compressor, condenser, filter, capillary and the evaporimeter that the sequence connects into the return circuit, and the effect of refrigeration circuit is the temperature that reduces the surrounding environment. The refrigeration circuit in this embodiment is disposed at the lower portion and the back portion of the refrigeration case, so that a space is left for the ice making housing 10 at the upper portion of the refrigeration case. It will be appreciated that the provision of the refrigeration circuit in the lower and rear portions of the cabinet also allows the refrigeration of the entire refrigeration cabinet, consistent with the principles of operation of the evaporator.

Fig. 1 is a schematic front view of a manual ice maker according to an embodiment of the present invention. According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, manual ice machine is still including connecing ice drawer 20, and refrigeration box 4 includes the box body, and a side of box body is equipped with the opening, and this opening specifically locates the upper portion of this side, and this opening is used for supplying ice making box 10 and connecing ice drawer 20. The ice making housing 10 and the ice receiving drawer 20 are slidably movable into and out of the opening.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the opening of the refrigeration box 4 is rectangular, and a partition is provided in the middle of the opening, and the partition divides the opening into a first opening and a second opening, wherein the first opening is on the top, the second opening is on the bottom, the first opening is used for installing the ice making box 10, and the second opening is used for installing the ice drawer 20. Considering that the ice making housing 10 functions to make ice cubes, the volume of the ice receiving drawer 20 positioned therebelow is equal to or greater than the volume of the ice making housing 10.

Fig. 2 shows a partially schematic elevation view of the ice making housing 10 and the refrigerating case 4 of the manual ice maker apparatus. According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, refrigeration box 4 specifically includes bottom plate (not shown in the figure), roof (not shown in the figure), left side board, right side board, front panel (not shown in the figure) and back panel (not shown in the figure), and bottom plate, roof, left side board, right side board, front panel and back panel enclose into the refrigeration box 4 that is the cuboid, are equipped with left side board, right side board, front panel and back panel between bottom plate and the roof. The limiting members 42 are disposed on the left side plate and the right side plate, and the limiting members 42 are specifically protrusions disposed on the left side plate and the right side plate.

Fig. 3 shows a schematic elevation view of the ice making housing 10 of the manual ice maker apparatus. According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, ice making box 10 specifically is cuboid box-like, is equipped with a plurality of ice cube tray 2 that are used for making the ice-cube in the ice making box 10. Specifically, the ice making housing 10 includes a rectangular outer frame 1, and the ice making compartment 2 is pivoted in the outer frame 1, so that the ice making compartment 2 can rotate. The ice cube tray 2 is actually a mold for forming ice cubes, and the ice cubes may be separated from the ice cube tray 2 after being solidified, in this embodiment, the ice cube tray 2 is turned over so that the ice cubes are separated from the ice cube tray 2 by using the gravity of the ice cubes, when the ice cube tray 2 faces upward, the ice cube tray 2 is at an ice making position, and when the ice cube tray 2 faces downward, the ice cube tray 2 is at an ice removing position.

According to an embodiment of the utility model, the frame 1 of ice-making box 10 includes antetheca 14, ice-making box 10 left side board, ice-making box right side board 11 and back wall, and antetheca 14, ice-making box 10 left side board, ice-making box right side board 11 enclose into the frame 1 that is the ice-making box 10 of rectangular frame form with the back wall. Wherein, because the front wall 14 needs to be matched with the refrigerating box body 4, the upper edge of the front wall 14 is higher than the left side plate and the right side plate 11 of the ice making box 10, and the left edge and the right edge of the front wall 14 can also exceed the range limited by the left side plate and the right side plate 11 of the ice making box 10.

According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, the equipartition is equipped with a plurality of baffles side by side within the frame 1 of ice making box 10, specifically, is equipped with two baffles within the frame 1 of ice making box 10 in this embodiment, and distance between two baffles and arbitrary baffle and the distance between the nearest ice making box 10 frame 1 equal to these two baffles separate ice making box 10 for the three region that sets up side by side, all are equipped with an ice cube tray 2 in every region.

According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, ice cube tray 2 includes a plate-like piece and a plurality of system ice mould, is equipped with a plurality of trompils on the plate-like piece, and a system ice mould is all connected to every trompil, and system ice mould all faces same direction. It is understood that the specific shape of the ice-making mold can be set by those skilled in the art, and the mold is generally in a square shape.

According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, the rear end of ice cube tray 2 is equipped with the rear end pivot, and the back wall is equipped with rear end pivot complex trompil, and the front end of ice cube tray 2 is equipped with the front end pivot, and antetheca 14 is equipped with front end pivot complex trompil to ice cube tray 2 passes through front end pivot and rear end pivot pin joint to ice making box 10. The front end rotating shaft and the rear end rotating shaft are positioned on the same straight line, and the straight line is positioned on the central axis of the ice cube tray 2, so that the ice cube tray 2 can rotate around the central axis.

According to an embodiment of the utility model, in order to facilitate the ice cube tray 2 to reset, still be equipped with resetting means between the rear end of ice cube tray 2 and the ice cube tray 10. Specifically, the reset device is a torsion spring, and two ends of the torsion spring are respectively connected with the rear wall and the rear end rotating shaft, so that the elasticity is stored or released when the rear end rotating shaft rotates, and the ice making case 2 can be automatically reset from the ice removing position to the ice making position.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the front end of the ice cube tray 2 is further provided with a knob 3. Specifically, the front end rotating shaft penetrates through the ice making box 10, the front end of the front end rotating shaft is also connected with the knob 3, and the knob 3 can facilitate manual twisting operation. Specifically, this knob 3 includes 3 bases of knob and bar arch, and 3 bases of knob are discoid, and the front end pivot is connected at the back of 3 bases of knob, and the bar arch is connected in the front of 3 bases of knob, and the finger is twisted and is moved the bar arch and can drive this knob 3 and rotate, and then drives the rotation of ice cube tray 2 through the front end pivot. In another embodiment, the knob 3 comprises a cylindrical knob 3 base, and the side surface of the knob 3 base is provided with anti-slip lines.

According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, ice cube tray 2 is equipped with 3 altogether, and correspondingly, knob 3 also is equipped with threely. Specifically, the three ice-making compartments 2 may be named as a first ice-making compartment 21, a second ice-making compartment 22, and a third ice-making compartment 23, and the first ice-making compartment 21, the second ice-making compartment 22, and the third ice-making compartment 23 are disposed in parallel with each other, wherein the first ice-making compartment 21 is connected to the first knob 31, the second ice-making compartment 22 is connected to the second knob 32, and the third ice-making compartment 23 is connected to the third knob 33. In order to enhance the user experience, the first knob 31, the second knob 32 and the third knob 33 may be different in size and color.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the front wall 14 is provided with openings for receiving the first knob 31, the second knob 32 and the third knob 33, and the front rotating shaft connected to the first ice cube tray 21, the second ice cube tray 22 and the third ice cube tray 23 no longer passes through the front wall 14. Specifically, the front wall 14 is provided with a first mounting hole, a second mounting hole and a third mounting hole, the first knob 31 is mounted in the first mounting hole, the second knob 32 is mounted in the second mounting hole, and the third knob 33 is mounted in the third mounting hole. It will be appreciated that each mounting hole is tangential to a corresponding knob 3, the knob 3 being free to rotate within the mounting hole.

According to the utility model discloses an embodiment is equipped with left side locating part on the ice making box 10 left side board, is equipped with right side locating part on the ice making box right side board 11. Specifically, the left side stopper is located above the left side plate, the right side stopper is located above the right side plate, and the left side stopper and the right side stopper are flush, so that the left side stopper and the right side stopper can exert a blocking effect on the ice making box 10 together.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the left side stopper and the right side stopper are both located between the front wall 14 and the rear wall of the ice making housing 10, and the range of motion of the front wall 14 and the rear wall of the ice making housing 10 is limited, so that a reasonable motion region can be defined by using the front wall 14 and the rear wall of the ice making housing 10.

According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, locating part 42 is as the arch that outstanding in the inner wall, the aforesaid ice making box 10 with touch and just can reach the backstop effect. In order to exert the stopping effect to the best in this embodiment, a stopping structure is correspondingly provided on the ice making box 10, the front ends of the two limiting members 42 are both provided with a downward limiting member protrusion 421, when the limiting member protrusion 421 is in physical contact with the stopping structure, the stopping effect can be exerted, it can be understood that the ice making box 10 is connected with the left side plate and the right side plate in a sliding manner by using a sliding rail, and the ice making box 10 can stop moving at a set position by using the matching of the limiting members 42 and the stopping structure.

According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, because through sliding rail connection between ice making box 10 and left side board, the right side board, consequently the stroke of ice making box 10 is the linear type. The stopping structure includes an upward-disposed tail protrusion 12 disposed at the tail of the side plate of the ice making box 10, the tail of the side plate of the ice making box 10 inevitably passes through the area where the limiting member 42 is located, and at this time, the tail protrusion 12 of the side plate of the ice making box 10 can play a role of stopping. The stopper structure further includes a stepped structure located at a middle portion of a side plate of the ice making housing 10. Specifically, the side plate of the ice making box 10 includes a front side plate and a rear side plate connected to each other, where the front side plate is higher than the rear side plate, the stopper 42 can slide on the rear side plate, and a connection between the front side plate and the rear side plate forms a stepped structure located in a middle portion of the entire side plate, and when the stopper 42 moves to the stepped structure, the stepped structure can be stopped by the front side plate.

Fig. 4 is a partially schematic sectional view of the ice making housing 10 and the refrigerating case 4 of the manual ice maker apparatus shown in fig. 1 when the ice making housing 10 is completely introduced into the refrigerating case 4. Fig. 5 is a partially schematic cross-sectional view of the ice making housing 10 and the refrigerator cabinet 4 of the manual ice maker apparatus shown in fig. 1 when the ice making housing 10 is controllably drawn away from the refrigerator cabinet 4. Fig. 6 is a partially schematic elevational view of the ice making housing 10 and the refrigeration case 4 of the manual ice maker apparatus shown in fig. 1, with the ice making housing 10 being controllably drawn away from the refrigeration case 4. According to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5, the protruding portion of the limiting member 42 is abutted against the front side plate of the ice cube tray 2, so that the limiting member 42 can cooperate with the stepped structure to achieve the limiting effect. As shown in fig. 4, at this time, the protruding portion of the stopper 42 abuts against the upward-disposed tail protrusion 12 of the tail of the side plate of the ice making housing 10, so that the stopper 42 can cooperate with the tail protrusion 12 to achieve a limiting effect, and when the embodiment is viewed from the outside, the specific position of the ice making housing 10 is as shown in fig. 6.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the step structure formed between the front side plate and the rear side plate includes a step surface 13. Specifically, the top surface of the front side plate is flush, the top surface of the rear side plate is also flush, and the stepped surface 13 is inclined to the top surface of the front side plate or the top surface of the rear side plate. In this embodiment, the height of the stepped surface 13 gradually decreases from front to back, and an obtuse angle is formed between the stepped surface 13 and the top surface of the front side plate or the top surface of the back side plate. In another embodiment, the stepped surface 13 may be acute-angled to the top surface of the front side plate or the top surface of the rear side plate. In still another embodiment, the stepped surface 13 may be at a right angle to the top surface of the front side plate or the top surface of the rear side plate.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in order to cooperate with the above-mentioned stepped surface 13, the shape of the protruding 421 of the position limiting member needs to cooperate with the characteristics of the above-mentioned stepped surface 13. Specifically, when the height of the stepped surface 13 gradually decreases from front to back, and an acute angle or an obtuse angle is formed between the stepped surface 13 and the top surface of the front side plate or the top surface of the back side plate, the shape of the stopper protrusion 421 is triangular or circular arc. When the stepped surface 13 is also at a right angle with the top surface of the front side plate or the top surface of the rear side plate, the stopper protrusion 421 may be rectangular.

According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, for the stroke of further restriction ice making box 10 inward movement for ice making box 10 can get into refrigeration box 4 back antetheca 14 completely and can flush with the front panel of refrigeration box 4, and the left side board and the right side board of refrigeration box 4 all are equipped with the sunken 41 that is used for blockking the rear end of ice making box 10 further to the internal movement of refrigeration box 4, and this sunken 41 cooperates with locating part 42, ladder face 13. Taking the right side plate of the refrigeration box 4 as an example, the rear part of the left side plate of the refrigeration box 4 narrows towards the inside of the refrigeration box 4, specifically, the left side plate of the refrigeration box 4 comprises a front side part, a side standing part and a rear side part, the rear side part is closer to the central axis of the refrigeration box 4 relative to the front side part, and two side edges of the side standing part vertically connect the front side part and the rear side part.

According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, when using above-mentioned manual ice machine, specifically include the following operating procedure:

step one, the ice box 10 is drawn outwards, and at this time, the stopper 42 is matched with the upward tail protrusion 12 at the tail of the side plate of the ice box 10, so that the movement stroke of the ice box 10 can be blocked, and only a part of the set ice grids of the ice box 10 is exposed out of the refrigeration box body 4.

And step two, adding water into the ice cube tray 2 until the water reaches the set position of the ice cube tray 2. It is known that water expands in volume after it is condensed into ice, and thus the amount of water added into the ice making cells 2 in this step needs to be set according to the set position of the ice making cells 2.

And step three, pushing the ice making box 10 into the refrigeration box body 4 until the front wall 14 can be flush with the front panel of the refrigeration box body 4, and waiting for a set time under the condition that the refrigeration pipeline is powered on and works.

And step four, after the set time, the knob 3 is twisted to rotate the ice cube tray 2 from the ice making position to the ice removing position, and the formed ice cubes fall into the ice receiving drawer 20.

And step five, pulling the ice-catching drawer 20 outwards until the ice-catching drawer 20 is pulled out of the refrigerating box body 4 completely.

Thus, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that while a number of exemplary embodiments of the invention have been shown and described in detail herein, many other variations and modifications can be made, consistent with the principles of the invention, which are directly determined or derived from the disclosure herein, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the present invention should be understood and interpreted to cover all such other variations or modifications.

Claims

1. A manual ice maker is characterized by comprising a refrigeration box body and an ice making box which is arranged in the refrigeration box body in a drawing mode, wherein the ice making box comprises a box body and an ice making grid which is arranged in the box body in a rotating mode, and the ice making grid is configured to rotate between an ice making state with an upward opening and an ice removing state with a downward opening;

2. The manual ice maker of claim 1, wherein the box has two opposing side walls;

3. The manual ice maker of claim 2, wherein said box has a front wall and a rear wall;

4. The manual ice-making machine of claim 3, wherein said side walls include a front portion closer to said front wall and a rear portion closer to said rear wall and connected to said front portion;

5. The manual ice maker of claim 1, further comprising an ice receiving drawer, the ice receiving drawer being drawably disposed within the refrigeration housing, the ice receiving drawer being located below the ice making housing to receive ice pieces released from the ice cube tray when in an ice shedding condition with the ice cube tray open downwardly.

6. The manual ice maker of claim 1, wherein a reset means is further provided between the ice tray and the ice housing to reset the ice tray from an ice releasing state in which the opening is downward to an ice making state in which the opening is upward when the ice tray is rotated.

7. The manual ice maker according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of ice trays and the operating unit, wherein the ice trays are arranged in parallel with each other, and each ice tray is connected to the operating unit.

8. The manual ice maker according to claim 7, wherein the operating part is provided outside the wall surface of the ice making housing, and the operating part is connected to the ice making housing by a rotation shaft passing through the wall surface of the ice making housing.

9. The manual ice maker according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the operation portion is a knob.

10. The manual ice-making machine of claim 1, wherein the stopper is provided with a stopper protrusion that is engaged with the stepped structure of the side wall of the ice-making housing.