Illinois Tool Works Inc.

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Mark Edward Brewer

Kenyon A Hapke

Eric K Larson

William Dante Chatelle

Walter G Stelzer

Jarod Michael Sulik

Juan J Barrena

Dharman B Kothari

An ice-tray for ice-making machines is formed by modular fabricated cups that can assembled together within a frame to create an ice-tray of arbitrary dimensions allowing a sharing of components among a variety of ice-tray sizes. Individual cups may include ice formation sensors or heaters or may be heated by an induction heating system.

Smart ice machine with separately fabricated cups for the ice tray

An ice-maker () provides a weight-sensing ice bin () that provides multiple levels of ice measurement thereby allowing improved control strategies that reduce ice making or ice making rate in accordance with anticipated ice usage to eliminate energy costs and the need to discard stale ice cubes. The weight sensor may be an induction sensor where the coil also serves a heating function for defrosting.

Ice-maker with weight-sensitive ice bin

A vent system for a dishwasher provides a mixing chamber receiving high humidity air from a downdraft dishwasher vent system or the like and mixes this air with dry air before discharging it from the dishwasher to reduce the humidity of the discharged air moderating condensation problems.

Humidity reducing exhaust duct for dishwasher

A dishwasher provides forced air flow in a counter-convectional direction so as to exhaust air out of a bottom portion of the washing volume in contrast to normal convective air flow.

Dishwasher with counter-convection air flow

There is disclosed a device for effecting the oscillating movement of a fluid nozzle. The device consists of a housing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a fluid inlet being adapted to allow fluid under pressure to enter the housing. An impeller is rotationally mounted within the housing positioned in the path of the fluid inlet such that fluid under pressure will rotate the impeller. A gear system is mounted within the housing and is operatively connected to the impeller, and includes a gear arm operatively driven by the gear system at one end and connected to an actuator arm at the other end. The actuator arm interconnects the gear arm with a fluid ejection nozzle such that the rotational movement of the impeller by fluid under pressure causes the gear system to rotate, which in turn rotates the gear arm, causing a concomitant reciprocating movement of the actuating arm and the fluid ejection nozzle. A device such as a shower head connected to the fluid ejection nozzle will similarly realize an oscillating movement.

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New Berlin, WI, United States of America

Mark Edward Brewer