Ice discharge section in auger type ice making machine

An ice discharge section in an auger type ice making machine wherein an evaporator connected to a refrigerating system is sealingly wound along an outer peripheral surface of a cylindrical refrigerating casing and thin ice formed upon an inner wall surface of said refrigerating casing is scraped off by means of an auger rotatably supported interiorly of said refrigerating casing so as to transfer the resulting ice flakes upwardly so that compressed ice obtained by compressing said ice flakes by means of an extruding head may be discharged into an ice storage chamber by means of an ice discharge passage provided at the top of said refrigerating casing, characterized in that:

• an ice transfer passage disposed within the interior of said ice storage chamber is connected to an open end of said ice discharge passage;
• said ice transfer passage comprises a drainage portion within the area disposed immediately downstream of said open end of said ice discharge passage, and an upwardly inclined surface disposed immediately downstream of said drainage portion;
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• a water collecting section provided between said drainage portion and said upwardly inclined surface for recovering water so as to drain said water from said ice transfer passage to the exterior of said machine.