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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 1984
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1983
Vance L Kohl, Manitowoc, WI (US);
The Manitowoc Company, Inc., Manitowoc, WI (US);
Abstract
An ice cube making machine having a vertical, open-faced freezing mold over which water is circulated from an underlying trough to build up ice. When the mold is full, the pump circulating the water is stopped and the ice is harvested. Harvesting is facilitated by a plunger that is biased to push ice from the mold. Water pressure from the pump holds the plunger against its bias until the pressure is released for the harvest cycle. The mold open face is covered by a water curtain having a lower lip underlying the mold open face so that the underlying trough need not extend substantially out from the mold, thereby permitting similar such units to be vertically stacked.