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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard Blair Hawkes, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Dale Stanley Berger, Nazareth, PA (US);
Assignee:
Follett Corporation, Easton, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B67D / ; B67D / ; B65D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2221466 ; 222561 ; 222564 ; 222547 ;
Abstract
An ice access and discharge apparatus for an ice bin including an access opening for access to ice in the bin and a slidably disposed ice baffle for baffling ice within the bin away from the access opening and metering ice flow to an ice discharge spout and to provide ice on a first in-first out basis. The ice discharge spout has a slidably disposed ice discharge gate for manually metering ice into an ice container.