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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
May. 02, 2001
Masaaki Kawasumi, Shimane-ken, JP;
Masahiro Kodani, Izumo, JP;
Shinichi Nagasawa, Izumo, JP;
Chiyoshi Toya, Nagoya, JP;
Shinsaku Hayakawa, Nagoya, JP;
Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An ice making machine of the open-cell type including a box-type housing, a water storage tank mounted to the bottom of the housing, a sprinkler mounted within the bottom portion of the housing and having a plurality of nozzles for spouting upward ice making water supplied to the water storage tank, and a plurality of ice making cell casings mounted wit an ice making chamber formed in an upper portion of the housing and located above the nozzles of the sprinkler to supplied with the ice making water spouted therefrom, wherein the box-type housing is composed of a pair of spaced side wall panels and front and rear wall panels jointed at their opposite side ends to front and rear end portions of the side wall panels respectively.