Ice making apparatus

Abstract

An ice making apparatus comprises: an ice making unit including ice making plates having ice making surfaces, and a water sprinkler for sprinkling ice water on the ice making surfaces; a reservoir tank for receiving the ice water flowing down on the ice making surfaces; and a feed pump including a pump section for supplying the ice water reserved in the reservoir tank to the water sprinkler, and a motor section for driving the pump section. The pump section is accommodated, together with the ice making unit and the reservoir tank, in an ice making chamber formed within a main body of the ice making apparatus. The motor section is accommodated, together with a control box containing therein various electrical components, in an upper machine chamber formed within the main body. The upper machine chamber is formed at the back of the ice making chamber and is partitioned from the ice making chamber by an L-shaped thermally insulating panel. The control box is detachably fixed onto the front wall surface of the upper machine chamber by a control box fixing plate attached to the front wall surface of the upper machine chamber so that the control box fixing plate faces the front surface of the control box. When the control box is taken out from the upper machine chamber, there is no need to remove a number of screws from the control box nor to move the main body. As a result, the control box can be readily taken out from the upper machine chamber.