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US 2007/0175235 A1Published application
Apparatus and method for bagging ice
OwnerMark Metzgerinventor
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Abstract
An ice-bagging apparatus that provides an establishment with the ability to automatically and expeditiously produce, bag and store bags of ice, thus maintaining a desired supply of bagged ice and eliminating conventional methods of manual ice-bagging and reducing the likelihood of unwanted bridging of the ice.
Claims46
An ice-bagging apparatus, comprising:
- means for producing ice;
- means for bagging the produced ice;
- and
- means for dispensing the bagged ice.
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An ice-bagging apparatus, comprising:
- means for producing ice;
- means for bagging the produced ice;
- means for dispensing the bagged ice;
- means for controlling operation of said apparatus;
- and
- means for sensing operational parameters of said apparatus.
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An ice-bagging apparatus, comprising:
- at least one icemaker;
- at least one collecting mechanism for collecting ice produced by said at least one icemaker;
- at least one bagging assembly for bagging the ice produced by said at least one icemaker;
- at least one storing unit for storing the ice bagged by said at least one bagging assembly;
- at least one control panel for controlling operation of said apparatus;
- and
- at least one sensing mechanism for sensing operation of said apparatus and for sensing bag parameters.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.