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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2007
Martin Buchstab, Bopfingen, DE;
Irene Dumkow, Sontheim, DE;
Adolf Feinauer, Giengen, DE;
Klaus Flinner, Zöschingen, DE;
Bernd Heger, Haunsheim, DE;
Helen Lewis, Worcestershire, GB;
Peter Nalbach, Kirchheim/Nabern, DE;
Craig Duncan Webster, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Nathan Wrench, Cambridge, GB;
Kasim Yazan, Ulm, DE;
Martin Buchstab, Bopfingen, DE;
Irene Dumkow, Sontheim, DE;
Adolf Feinauer, Giengen, DE;
Klaus Flinner, Zöschingen, DE;
Bernd Heger, Haunsheim, DE;
Helen Lewis, Worcestershire, GB;
Peter Nalbach, Kirchheim/Nabern, DE;
Craig Duncan Webster, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Nathan Wrench, Cambridge, GB;
Kasim Yazan, Ulm, DE;
BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH, Munich, DE;
Abstract
An ice dispenser including an ice supply container; a shaft extending into the supply container; a stirrer rotatable about the shaft which extends into the supply container, the stirrer being connectable to a rotation drive device that rotates the stirrer; an output chamber communicated with the supply container, the output chamber having an ice outlet opening; a slider rotatable in the output chamber, a rotation of the slider in a predetermined manner operating to bring the slider into moving engagement with ice located in the output chamber; and a coupling selectively disposable between an active coupling disposition in which the coupling operatively interconnects the stirrer and the slider to one another such that the slider rotates in correspondence with a rotation of the stirrer and a decoupling disposition in which the coupling does not operatively interconnect the stirrer and the slider to one another.