Ice discharge section in auger type ice making machine

Abstract

There is provided an ice discharge section in an auger type ice making machine wherein an evaporator connected to a refrigerating system is sealingly wound along the outer periphery of a cylindrical refrigerating casing and the thin ice formed upon the inner wall surface of the refrigerating casing is scrapped off by an auger rotatably supported within the interior of the refrigerating casing so as to transfer the resulting ice flakes upwardly so that the compressed ice obtained by compressing these ice flakes by an extruding head may be discharged into an ice storage chamber via an ice discharge passage provided at the top of the refrigerating casing, characterized in that an ice transfer passage disposed within the interior of the ice storage chamber is connected to an opening of the ice discharge passage, an ice transfer passage having a drainage portion is disposed in the area immediately downstream of the opening and has an upwardly inclined surface continuing after the drainage portion, and a water collecting section is provided between the drainage portion and the upwardly inclined surface for recovering water so as to drain it to the exterior of the machine.