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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 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;
Martin Pünjer, Ulm, 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;
Martin Pünjer, Ulm, DE;
Craig Duncan Webster, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Nathan Wrench, Cambridge, GB;
Kasim Yazan, Ulm, DE;
BSH Hausgeraete GmbH, Hannover, DE;
Abstract
A refrigeration device is provided that includes a housing enclosing an interior and an assembly in the interior having a storage compartment for chunks of ice and a stirrer. The stirrer is rotatable about an axis that extends through the storage compartment to move chunks of ice contained in the storage compartment in relation to each other and to move ice towards a dispensing passage that extends through the housing. A closable flap is interposed between the storage compartment and the dispensing passage.