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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 1976
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1974
George R Shelley, Miami, FL (US);
Robert J Shelley, Jr, Miami, FL (US);
Arthur B Dixon, Coral Gables, FL (US);
Bruce F House, North Miami Beach, FL (US);
Shelley Manufacturing Company, Miami, FL (US);
Abstract
An improved elevating mechanism for combinative use with a vertically rotating auger for elevating crushed or cube ice in automatic ice dispensing equipment, comprising a bent-metal abutment slide member partially surrounding the auger and operative to constrain ice being elevated thereby to movement in the upward direction to a dispensing chute, and having an outwardly-extending wing portion serving as a guide at an open side of the slide member for moving ice being directed into the mouth by a rotating ice feeder disc at the lower end of the auger into lower end portions thereof for continuous supply thereto as ice is being displaced toward the upper end of the auger.