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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert W Gundlach, Victor, NY (US);
Assignee:
Vencraft Corp., West Henrietta, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62 71 ; 62 74 ; 62320 ; 272 / ;
Abstract
The invention resides in a method of producing artificial snow directly from ice, for ski slopes. Ice is formed on a surface exposed to an ambient temperature at or below the freezing temperature of water by flowing water onto the surface. The rate of water deposition is controlled such that all of the water deposited on the surface freezer before additional water is deposited thereon. The ice is then comminuted into snow-like particles and distributed onto the slope.