JPS5942621Y2 - Ice crusher - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] This invention relates to an ice crusher that crushes large ice cubes made in a refrigerator or the like into small pieces to make them on the rocks, to cool somen noodles, or to make them chewy for direct consumption.

This idea includes providing a grip on the hopper that stores the ice cubes, attaching and detaching the hopper to the main body of the container, and installing a one-way thin ice plate at the bottom of the hopper that has a rotating blade and a slit that serves as a passage for the ice pieces. As a result, the ice cubes in the hopper are clamped and crushed by the fine ice one-way passing plate, the inner peripheral side wall of the hopper, and the rotary blade, so that the hopper can be used not only as an ice cube container but also as an ice cube scooper. Moreover, the hopper can be washed as a single unit, and at that time, the need for a rotary blade to crush ice blocks is eliminated, and the ice blocks in the hopper can be easily crushed.

An embodiment of this invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

1 is a container body, and the container body 1 has an opening 2 at the top.
The lower part is an ice discharge part 3, and a cavity 4 with an open front is formed below this discharge part 3, and the crushed ice pieces falling from the discharge part 3 are stored in the cavity 4. A receiver is provided so that the container 5 can be freely pulled out.

Between the left and right side walls of the container body 1 at a position slightly above the discharge part 3, a rotating shaft 7 on which a plurality of rotary blades 6 are mounted is horizontally mounted, and one end of this rotating shaft 7 is attached to a handle 8 or as shown in the figure. Although it is not connected to the drive shaft of an electric motor, the rotary shaft 7 is rotationally driven to rotate the rotary blade 6.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a hopper for storing ice cubes before crushing, which is separate from the container body 1 and is detachably attached to the container body 1.

The outer flange 11 is formed around the entire upper edge of the hopper 10, and the flange 11 is placed on the upper edge of the opening 2 of the container body 1, but the structure is not limited to this. Other methods may also be used.

A gripping part 12 is protruded from the front part of the hopper 10, and this gripping part 12 is engaged with an engagement hole 9 cut out in the front part of the container body 1 to position and prevent the hopper 10 from rotating. I am having them do this.

By gripping the gripping portion 12 of the hopper 10, it can be used as a container for ice cubes or as an ice cube scooper.

At the bottom of the hopper 10, a rotary blade 6 and a rotary blade 6 are provided.
A fine ice one-way passing plate 14 is formed having a slit 13 that serves as a passage for crushed ice pieces.

Therefore, when the hopper 10 is assembled on the container body 1, a part of the rotary blade 6 protrudes through the slit 13 of the fine ice one-way passing plate 14, and the remaining part faces the discharge part 3.

By rotating the rotary shaft 7, all of these rotary blades 6 repeat the above-mentioned state to crush the ice blocks in the hopper 10, and the ice pieces fall from the discharge part 3 and are stored in the container 5. .

When crushing ice blocks in the hopper 10, the ice blocks are clamped by the fine ice one-way passing plate 14, the inner peripheral side wall of the hopper 10, and the rotary blade 6, so that the ice blocks are reliably and easily crushed.

In addition, 15 is a lid placed on the hopper 10, 16 is a bottom plate connected to the lower part of the container body 1, and 17° and 18 are rotating shafts 7.
The bearing portion 19 is a rib.

FIG. 5 shows another embodiment, this one.

A recess 21 is formed in the upper flat plate of the member 20 that forms the discharge part 3 of the container body 1, and a protrusion 22 formed on the hopper 10 is fitted into the recess 21.
At the same time, together with the engagement between the grip part 12 and the engagement hole 9, the device body is prevented from swinging, and the upper outer periphery of the collar part 11 is covered with the lid body 15, Furthermore, in addition to the rotary blade 6 as in the embodiment described above, a blade for crushing ice blocks is provided with a rotary shaft 7.
and a fixed blade 6a fixed to the discharge part forming member 20, and other configurations are the same as in the previous embodiment.

In addition, while a large gear is installed near the shaft end of the rotating shaft 7 without providing the handle 8 at the shaft end of the rotating shaft 7 in FIG. 64 can be achieved by suspending a rotating shaft horizontally on the container body 1, providing a handle at the end of the rotating shaft, and rotating the rotary blade 6 of the rotating shaft 7 through the rotation operation of this handle.

According to this invention having the above configuration, the hopper 1
A grip part 12 is provided on the outside of the hopper 10, and a slit 1 is provided at the bottom of the hopper 10 with a size that does not allow the ice cubes to pass through before being crushed.
3, and the hopper 10 is detachably attached to the container body 1, so that the hopper 10 not only has the original function of storing the ice cubes thrown in, but also has a fine ice one-way passage plate 14 with The gripper 12 can be removed and used to scoop up ice cubes before crushing, thereby saving the effort of transferring the ice cubes to the hopper 10 using another ice container.

Not only that, but the hopper 10 can be washed by itself, and since the rotary blade 6 is pivoted to the top of the container body 1, there is no injury caused by the rotary blade 6 when cleaning the hopper 10, making it a safe ice crusher. is provided.

Furthermore, a thin ice one-way pass plate 1 formed at the bottom of the hopper 10
4 and the inner peripheral side wall of the hopper 10, the ice blocks in the hopper 10 are clamped and crushed by the rotary blade 6,
The part of the fine ice one-way passing plate 14 excluding the slit 13 is
Since it acts as a so-called fixed blade, it has many practical effects such as reliably capturing and easily crushing ice blocks in the hopper.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The figures also show an embodiment of this invention, with Figure 1 being an exploded perspective view of the whole, Figure 2 being a perspective view of the hopper, and Figure 3 being a perspective view of the hopper.
The figure is a sectional view, FIG. 4 is a central vertical sectional view of FIG. 3, and FIG. 5 is a sectional view. 1... Container body, 6... Rotating blade, 7.
...Rotation axis, 8...Handle, 9...
...Engagement hole, 10...Curved popper, 12...
Gripping part, 13...Slit, 14...
Thin ice piece passing plate

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] In an ice crusher, ice cubes placed in a hopper at the top of the container body are crushed by the rotation of a rotating blade provided below the hopper, and the crushed ice pieces are taken out from the bottom of the container body. A fine ice one-way passing plate is formed that has a blade and a slit that serves as a passage for the ice pieces crushed by the rotary blade, and this fine ice one-way passing plate and the inner circumferential side wall of the hopper clamp the ice cubes in the hopper. An ice crusher that facilitates crushing with a rotating blade, has a grip section on the outside of the hopper, and has the hopper detachably attached to the container body.