EP2064498A2 - Ice dispenser - Google Patents
Ice dispenserInfo
- Publication number
- EP2064498A2 EP2064498A2 EP07802795A EP07802795A EP2064498A2 EP 2064498 A2 EP2064498 A2 EP 2064498A2 EP 07802795 A EP07802795 A EP 07802795A EP 07802795 A EP07802795 A EP 07802795A EP 2064498 A2 EP2064498 A2 EP 2064498A2
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- ice
- fingers
- slide
- chamber
- ice dispenser
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- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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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
- F25C5/22—Distributing ice particularly adapted for household refrigerators
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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
- F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F25D23/00—General constructional features
- F25D23/12—Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
- F25D23/126—Water cooler
Definitions
- the present invention relates to an ice dispenser, in particular an ice dispenser of the type which can be used in a refrigeration device to temporarily store pieces of ice produced by an automatic ice maker of the refrigeration device and output at the request of a user.
- An ice dispenser known from US Pat. No. 4,176,527 A comprises a storage container for ice pieces, a stirring tool which is rotatable about an axis extending through the storage container, an output chamber which extends the storage container in the direction of the axis, and one in the dispensing chamber to the stirring tool coupled rotatable slide in the form of several parallel to the axis fixed blades, which in the course of its rotation in the discharge chamber penetrated ice to a discharge opening conveys.
- the stirring tool is formed on a part of its length as a helix and on another, the output chamber adjacent part as a screw conveyor, so that by a rotation of the stirring ice pieces are conveyed into the discharge chamber.
- a very powerful drive motor for the stirring tool can be provided, and reservoir and stirring tool can be designed with high mechanical strength to allow breakage of the pieces of ice even after prolonged disuse. In this way, while the
- US Pat. No. 4,846,381 proposes to solve the problem of freezing by mounting a stirring tool and a screw conveyor in the reservoir of an ice dispenser, separate from one another and each driven by its own motor.
- the stirring tool can be actuated to separate the ice pieces from each other, without at the same time is issued by the screw auger ice.
- a problem of this design is the large space requirement of the stirring tool and the separate screw conveyor and its drive motors, which makes this solution mainly for commercial, exclusively for ice making devices interesting.
- Object of the present invention is to provide an ice dispenser, which reliably prevents the freezing of stored pieces of ice and thereby has a compact, inexpensive realizable structure that makes it suitable in particular for use in a household refrigerator.
- the object is achieved by providing in an ice dispenser with a storage container for pieces of ice, a rotatable about an axis extending through the reservoir agitator, an adjacent to the reservoir discharge chamber and a coupled in the output chamber to the agitator rotatable slide, wherein on a wall of the Output chamber in which the slider moves in its rotation, an output opening is formed for conveyed by the slide ice, between the stirring tool and slide a clutch is arranged to selectively transmit or not transmit a force exerted on the agitator driving torque to the slider.
- the slider rotates together with the agitating tool and pieces of ice, which enter the dispensing chamber by the movement of the agitating tool or otherwise, are conveyed from the slider to the dispensing opening. If the drive torque is not transmitted, the slider remains at rest, so that the ice is not conveyed to the discharge port. In this state, it is possible to operate the stirring tool alone to disengage pieces of ice collapsing in the hopper without giving up ice at the same time.
- an ice dispenser is preferred in which the agitating tool and the slider have the same axis of rotation.
- the discharge chamber expediently has the shape of a cylinder concentric with the axis of rotation of the slide, the discharge opening being formed in a lateral surface of the cylinder.
- an end face of the cylindrical dispensing chamber is open to the reservoir.
- a partition with a passage opening is arranged between the reservoir and the discharge chamber.
- the size of the port may be selected to suitably control the rate at which pieces of ice enter the dispensing chamber from the hopper when the agitator is agitated.
- the slider can be fixed in a position blocking the passage opening.
- the reservoir In order to promote the movement of the ice cubes from the reservoir into the dispensing chamber, the reservoir preferably has a bottom sloping towards the dispensing chamber.
- the slider comprises a first set of fingers and that a second set of fingers is provided in the dispensing chamber, at least one of the sets comprising at least two axially spaced fingers, and that upon rotation of the slider one finger of the other set a space between the two fingers of the one sentence happens.
- Pieces of ice between the two sets of fingers are crushed between the fingers and thus come in the form of small fragments to the discharge opening.
- the fingers are expediently designed as a knife, with sharp cutting edges.
- the second set of fingers can be fixed in a position bridging the dispensing opening, in particular in the above-mentioned first embodiment without a partition between the reservoir and the dispensing chamber.
- the second set of fingers in the dispensing opening bridging position closes them only partially, it can be used in this position to crush the pieces of ice, since the resulting fragments can continue to pass the dispensing opening.
- the second set of fingers is suitably movable between the dispensing opening bridging position and the dispensing opening releasing position.
- the bridging position is a stable equilibrium position of the second set of fingers.
- the second set of fingers is preferably locked at the option of a user in the output chamber or rotatable together with the slider about its axis of rotation.
- Such a rotation can be easily driven when the second set of fingers is frictionally coupled to the slider.
- Figure 1 is a schematic section through a household refrigerator, which is equipped with an ice dispenser according to the invention.
- FIG. 2 shows an enlarged axial section through the dispensing chamber of the ice dispenser according to a first embodiment
- Fig. 3 is a schematic section through the output chamber of the ice dispenser of
- Fig. 2 perpendicular to the axis in a Rlick istsmodus or a
- FIG. 4 shows a section analogous to FIG. 3 through the dispensing chamber of the ice dispenser of FIG. 2 in an operating mode for dispensing ice pieces;
- FIG. 5 shows an enlarged axial section through the dispensing chamber of the ice dispenser according to a second embodiment
- Fig. 6 is a schematic section through the output chamber of the ice dispenser of FIG. 5 perpendicular to the axis.
- the refrigerating appliance shown in a schematic section in FIG. 1 has a heat-insulating body 1 and a door 2 which delimit an interior space 3.
- Interior 3 is maintained at a temperature below 0 9 C by an evaporator, which is housed in an upper part of the body 1 divided evaporator chamber 4.
- An automatic ice maker 5 is in the immediate vicinity of
- Evaporator chamber 4 arranged in the interior 3, so that it can preferably be acted upon with cold air from the evaporator chamber 4.
- the ice maker 5 comprises in a known manner, not shown in detail in the figure, a plurality of
- Molded containers means for automatic dosing of water into the mold containers, and means for automatically ejecting the finished pieces of ice from the
- a collecting container 6 of an ice dispenser is arranged, which receives the ejected pieces of ice.
- the collecting container 6 extends over a large part of the depth of the interior 3.
- an electric motor for driving a extending in the longitudinal direction of the collecting container 6 rake 8 housed.
- Rotary blades 9 of a grinder are coupled to an end 7 of the stirring rod 8 facing away from the niche in a manner which will be described in more detail below.
- the knives 9 are housed in a cylindrical dispensing chamber 10 which is open to the collecting container 6 and extends it along the axis of rotation of the stirring rod 8.
- an electromagnet 1 1 is arranged, whose function will also be explained later.
- the stirring rod 8 is a metal rod zigzag-shaped in a plane parallel to the axis. Because of its planar shape, it practices, unlike a helix or a
- the stirring rod 8 can be rotated from time to time by the motor, without thereby ice pieces are pressed into the discharge chamber 10 and can clog them.
- the discharge chamber 10 has substantially the shape of a horizontal cylinder, on the lateral surface of which a downwardly open discharge opening 12 is formed.
- This discharge opening 12 is located opposite a passage 13 shown in FIG. 1, which extends through an insulating material layer of the door 2 and opens into a niche 14 open towards the outside of the door 2.
- a flap 15 keeps the passage 13 closed unless the dispenser is in operation to deliver ice through the dispensing opening 12 and the passage 13 to a container placed in the recess 14.
- a water tank 16 is embedded on the rear wall of the niche 14 in the insulating material of the door 2.
- the water tank 16 is on the one hand as the icemaker 5 via a supply line 17 and a check valve 18 connected to the drinking water network and on the other hand to a tap 19 in the niche 14.
- the rake 8 is at its end facing away from the niche 7 in one piece into a cylindrical shaft 20, which extends through the discharge chamber 10.
- a distal end portion 21 of the shaft 20 has a non-circular, for example, square cross-sectional shape.
- a sleeve 22, which is mounted so as to be easily rotatable on the shaft 20, carries a plurality of cutter disks 23, each of which, as can be seen in FIG. 3, carries four knives 9 projecting radially from a core region 24 and serves as a slide for pieces of ice located in the output chamber 10 Act.
- sharp-edged plates 26 In the spaces between each two of the cutter discs 23 engage sharp-edged plates 26 of about a quarter-circle shape. Mutually facing edges of the knives 9 and the plates 26 are serrated to selectively produce a high pressure to break up the pieces of ice can.
- the plates 26 are rigidly connected at their outer periphery by two transverse struts 25, 27.
- the two transverse struts 25, 27 bear against the wall of the dispensing chamber 10 on either side of the dispensing opening 12, while the plates 26 bridge the dispensing opening 12.
- the distance between the parallel plates 26 is smaller than the dimensions of the ice pieces, so that pieces of ice that are in the dispensing chamber 10 can not readily pass between the plates 26 through the dispensing opening 12.
- the shaft 20 adjacent edge portions of the plates 26 are each clamped by elastic buffer rings 29 between two cutter discs 23, so that the plates 26 tend to follow a rotation of the blades 9 in the counterclockwise direction, if not, as shown in Fig. 3, by a voltage applied to one of the cross braces 25, 27 latch 28 are prevented from it.
- the sleeve 22 is rotatably mounted in a bearing opening 30 formed in the end wall of the dispensing chamber 10 facing the door 2.
- a coupling body 31 is mounted on the non-circular end portion 21 of the shaft 20 and by means of (not shown in Fig. 2) electromagnet 1 1 between the position shown in Fig. 2, in which the knife 9 carrying the sleeve 22 and the shaft
- the motor 20 are freely rotatable relative to each other, slidable into a coupling position, in which coupling claws 32 of the sleeve 22 engage in recesses 33 of the coupling body 31, whereby a positive and frictional connection between the shaft 20 and the sleeve 22 is made.
- the motor is operated in the niche 7 at predetermined intervals for a short time to break freezing in the sump ice pieces and to keep moving.
- the motor rotates preferably in the counterclockwise direction.
- a frictional torque transmitted via the bearing from the shaft 20 to the sleeve 22 does not cause the blades 9 to rotate since they are braked by the plates 26 clamped to the buffer rings 29 and blocked by the latch 28. Ice pieces located in the dispensing chamber 10 do not reach the dispensing opening 12 because they can not pass through the plates 26.
- the bar 28 it is possible to allow the bar 28 to be withdrawn during the dispensing of ice pieces, so that the plates 26 make the same rotation as the knives 9. In this case, however, it is difficult to meter the ice pieces, since the Briefis dispensing mode can be stopped again when the plates 26 have reached the position shown in Fig. 3 again and locked in this by the bolt 28.
- the bolt 28 is therefore withdrawn only as long as necessary, so that the leading in the direction of rotation of the two transverse struts 27, the bolt 28 can pass through the transition to the Broadis- output mode. Then, when the bolt 28 engages again in the discharge chamber 10, it blocks, as in Fig.
- FIGS. 5 and 6 show the output chamber of an ice dispenser according to a second embodiment of the invention in an axial section, or a section perpendicular to the axis. Elements of this ice dispenser, which already correspond to elements explained with reference to the first embodiment of FIGS. 2 to 4, are provided with the same reference numerals and will not be explained again.
- the shaft 20 extends through an intermediate wall 34, which separates the collecting container 6 and the discharge chamber 10 from each other.
- a through hole 35 (see Fig. 6) in the intermediate wall 34 allows the passage of ice pieces from the collecting container 6 in the discharge chamber 10 when the stirring rod 8 rotates.
- the stirring rod 8 sweeps next to the intermediate wall 34 closely over the sloping to the intermediate wall 34 bottom of the collecting container 6, so that 6 pieces of ice reliably detected at low level of the collecting container and raised to the through hole 35 so that they through this into the discharge chamber 10 can fall.
- the in the output chamber 10 by means of the electromagnet 1 1 to the rotation of the stirring rod 8 can be coupled knife 9 have the same shape, as shown in Figures 3 and 4.
- the wide plates 26 are replaced by knives 36 whose width is not substantially different from that of the rotating knives 9. They each start from one of the two transverse struts 27 and are slidably clamped with their tips between elastic rings 29 rotating with the knives 9.
- the two transverse struts 27 are connected by the intermediate wall 34 and a front wall of the discharge chamber 10 adjacent sheets 37.
- the knives 36 are locked by the latch 28, and pieces of ice passing through the through-hole 35 are crushed between the knives 9, 36 before reaching the discharge opening 12.
- Output chamber 10 which could otherwise cause depending on the position of the knife 36 that pieces of ice are issued uncontrollably through the discharge opening 12 or collect in front of the blades 36.
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DE202006013709U DE202006013709U1 (en) | 2006-09-07 | 2006-09-07 | Ice dispenser, to be incorporated in refrigerator to deliver ice in block or chopped form, comprises storage vessel with delivery opening, slide and two sets of movable fingers |
DE102006061094A DE102006061094A1 (en) | 2006-09-07 | 2006-12-22 | ice dispenser |
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