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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 1977
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1975
Derek A Brand, Naperville, IL (US);
Rouben T Terzian, Chicago, IL (US);
Douglas P Montague, Chicago, IL (US);
Marvin Glass & Associates, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A portable ice dispenser for dispensing cubed or crushed ice from a receptacle into a container, such as a glass or the like, automatically when the glass is placed under a discharge chute on the front of the ice dispenser. The ice dispenser includes a thermally insulated cylindrical ice receptacle which includes a discharge opening in a front wall. The cylindrical receptacle is rotatably mounted about a generally horizontal concentric axis by a frame and includes a drive train for rotating the receptacle about the horizontal axis. An on-off switch is provided below the discharge opening in the receptacle for engagement by a glass placed under the opening which contacts and closes the switch to start the receptacle rotating. A plurality of internal, inwardly radially directed, fins are provided within the receptacle to agitate and carry the ice particles therewith. As the fins reach an uppermost position within the rotating receptacle, some of the ice particles drop onto a discharge chute which projects through the discharge opening to direct the ice particles into the glass.