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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2017
Applicant:
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Inventors:
Eric K. Larson, Cumberland, RI (US);
William D. Chatelle, Cranston, RI (US);
Juan Barrena, Johnson, RI (US);
Mark Edward Brewer, New Berlin, WI (US);
Dharman B. Kothari, West Allis, WI (US);
Jarod Sulik, Elkhorn, WI (US);
Assignee:
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC., Glenview, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25C 1/246 (2018.01); F25C 5/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25C 1/246 (2013.01); F25C 5/08 (2013.01); F25C 2305/0221 (2021.08); F25C 2700/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
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.