Manitowoc Foodservice Companies, Inc.

Manitowoc Foodservice Group, Inc.

Raymond Randy Haack

Timothy B Strandell

Charles E Schlosser

Lee G Mueller

William E Olson, Jr

Richard T Miller

Curt R Cayemberg

Gregory F Krcma

William E Smith, Jr

Gerald William Wendt

Bert Bodnar

John-Paul James Ishioye

William Aalto

Ramesh B Tirumala

Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for overcoming known plating deficiencies in evaporator assemblies in ice making machine. One embodiment joins the vertical and horizontal partitions together at their intersections so that all surfaces are susceptible for increased soldering/brazing by eliminating the 'voids' by changing the location and design of the 'weep holes' in the vertical and/or horizontal partitions. This provides more complete capillary path at the joint between the vertical and horizontal partitions and the evaporator pan allowing improved flow via capillary action of solder/brazing alloy during the joining of the assembled vertical and horizontal partition grid to the evaporator pan. Another embodiment increases the clearance between the partitions at their intersections to allow the post-joining plating treatment to penetrate and coat all the partition surfaces by widening the intersection slots in the partitions, but including &#x201c;stand-off&#x201d; features to center the mating partition in the widened intersection slot.

Ice making machine evaporator with joined partition intersections

A method that includes: (i) detecting an acoustic wave that is propagating through a body of water, as the body of water is being frozen on a structure, thus yielding a detected acoustic wave; (ii) extracting, from the detected acoustic wave, (a) a frequency component thereof, and (b) a magnitude of the frequency component; and (iii) removing the body of water from the structure when the magnitude exceeds a threshold value.

Analyzing an acoustic wave that has propagated through a body of water while the body of water is being frozen

The present invention uses a single molded piece of plastic as an evaporator frame. A low durometer gasket material is molded in place on the single molded piece of plastic. The gasket aids in sealing the evaporator frame and the evaporator pan.

Plastic evaporator mount with two step molding

Ice machine

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Mishicot, WI, United States of America

Raymond Randy Haack