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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1994
Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyoake, JP;
Abstract
An auger type ice making machine having an upright evaporator housing the interior of which is formed with a cylindrical freezing surface, an auger mounted for rotary movement within the evaporator housing and drivingly connected at its lower end with an electric motor to scrape ice crystals off the freezing surface and to advance the scraped ice crystals toward an upper end of the evaporator housing, an extrusion head fixed in place within the upper end portion of the evaporator housing to compress the scraped ice crystals advanced thereto by rotation of the auger and extrude the compressed ice crystals upwardly, a drain pipe provided with an electrically operated drain valve and connected to a lower end portion of the evaporator housing to discharge supplied water from the evaporator housing when the drain valve is opened by its energization and an electric heater mounted on an outer periphery of the evaporator housing at a place corresponding with the extrusion head, wherein the electric heater is energized when applied with a halt signal of ice making operation and deenergized after lapse of a predetermined time, and the drain valve is energized after or before the electric heater has been deenergized.
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