Ice crushing device
AssigneeQingdao Haier Joint Stock Co., Ltd.
InventorsCharles Miller, Nick Gilkey, Jianjun Xue, Chuan Cui
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Abstract
The present invention provides an ice crushing device, of which a fixed ice cutter and a rotary ice cutter can cooperate to cut and process big ice cubes that enter a drum into small ice cubes. Besides, based on the operation mode that the drum rotates, the probability that crushed ice is adhered onto an inner wall of the drum can be effectively reduced. Thus, the frequency of cleaning the inner wall of the drum can be reduced.
Claims18
An ice crushing device, comprising a shaft seat with an ice outlet formed in the bottom, a fixed shaft fixedly disposed on the shaft seat, a drum rotationally disposed on the shaft seat by taking the fixed shaft as a rotation axis and an ice-incoming baffle plate disposed at a top of the drum, wherein an ice cutter component is disposed inside the drum, and comprises at least one fixed ice cutter secured to the fixed shaft and at least one rotary ice cutter secured to an inner wall of the drum and capable of rotating with the drum;
- the rotary ice cutter has a first rotation direction for rotation relative to the fixed ice cutter to cut a whole piece of ice in the drum into crushed ice;
- the ice outlet is located at one side of the fixed shaft and provided with a crushed-ice discharge side for discharging the crushed ice;
- when rotating in the first rotation direction, the rotary ice cutter enters a space at an upper portion of the ice outlet from a position right above the crushed-ice discharge side of the ice outlet;
- the fixed ice cutter is located in a space at the upper portion of the ice outlet and provided with a cutter edge side for cutting the whole piece of ice;
- and the cutter edge side of the fixed ice cutter faces the crushed-ice discharge side;
- the ice-incoming baffle plate is secured to the fixed shaft and provided with an ice inlet that allows the whole piece of ice at the top of the drum to enter the drum, the ice inlet is located at one side of the fixed shaft, and the ice inlet and the ice outlet are mutually staggered in the first rotation direction;
- a first side edge and a second side edge of the ice inlet are respectively defined at two opposite inlet edges of the ice inlet in view of the first rotation direction, the first side edge and the second side edge are respectively equipped with saw-toothed structures to cut the whole piece of ice located in the ice inlet into crushed ice in response to rotation of the drum relative to the ice-incoming baffle plate in the first rotation direction.
An ice crushing device, comprising a shaft seat with an ice outlet formed in the bottom, a fixed shaft fixedly disposed on the shaft seat, a drum rotationally disposed on the shaft seat by taking the fixed shaft as a rotation axis and an ice-incoming baffle plate is disposed at the top of the drum, wherein an ice cutter component is disposed inside the drum, and comprises at least one fixed ice cutter secured to the fixed shaft and at least one rotary ice cutter secured to an inner wall of the drum and capable of rotating with the drum;
- the rotary ice cutter has a first rotation direction for rotation relative to the fixed ice cutter to cut a whole piece of ice in the drum into crushed ice;
- the ice outlet is located at one side of the fixed shaft and provided with a crushed-ice discharge side for discharging the crushed ice;
- when rotating in the first rotation direction, the rotary ice cutter enters a space at an upper portion of the ice outlet from a position right above the crushed-ice discharge side of the ice outlet;
- the fixed ice cutter is located in a space at the upper portion of the ice outlet and provided with a cutter edge side for cutting the whole piece of ice;
- and the cutter edge side of the fixed ice cutter faces the crushed-ice discharge side;
- the ice crushing device further comprises an ice exiting channel located below the ice outlet, the ice exiting channel comprises a funneled ice receiving portion and a pipeline portion communicated with a lower end of the ice receiving portion;
- the ice exiting channel includes a first housing and a second housing which are separately detachable, two pairs of assembly edges that are fastened to be assembled to form the ice exiting channel are disposed between the first housing and the second housing, and respectively extend in a direction from an edge of a channel inlet of the ice exiting channel to an edge of a channel outlet of the ice exiting channel, the ice exiting channel is further provided with a funneled ice-receiving inner cover, the ice-receiving inner cover is embedded into the ice receiving portion and matches an inner wall of the ice receiving portion.
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