Icemaker

Abstract

An icemaker includes a main body, a water chamber, an icing device and a cover. The main body has a reservoir with a water inlet, a containing chamber, a water tube connected with the water entry and having water injecting hole, a pump connected with the water tube and a water passageway formed between the containing chamber and the reservoir. The water chamber is pivotally connected in the containing chamber, having a pushing board connected pivotally at the front side. The icing device is installed at the top of the water chamber, having plural icing bars extended into the water chamber. Then the pump sends water in the water chamber, and the icing device freezes the water around the icing bars, with water kept pumped into the water chamber till ice blocks are made, so as to obtain a clear and bright ice blocks.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention

[0002] This invention relates to an icemaker, particularly to one including a main body, a water chamber and an icing device to produce clear and bright ice blocks while water kept flowing into the water chamber until ice blocks are made.

[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art

[0004] Ice is popularly and indispensably used for drinks, freezing foods, cooling foods temporarily, diminishing a fever, or cooling a sprain or an inflamed part. Ordinarily, ice is made simply by means of containers filled with water and laid in a refrigerator for freezing. But, a refrigerator is mainly used to store foods, apt to let water contaminated with peculiar smells while being frozen, able to spoil taste of drinks or the like. Moreover, a conventional refrigerator can only produce ice in a limited quantity in about one hour each time, unable to satisfy urgent need of a large quantity. Or, if there is no proper container, bigger ice blocks have to be crashed into small pieces by a tool, quite bothering. Therefore, the invention has been devised to overcome the defects mentioned above.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0005] The objective of this invention is to offer an icemaker able to quickly produce sanitary ice blocks that smell purely and are formed clearly and brightly in a proper size.

[0006] The main characteristics of the invention are a main body, a water chamber, an icing device and a cover. The main body is provided with a reservoir having a water inlet, a containing chamber provided with a supporting plate located at an inner wall of one side, a water tube connected with the water inlet and having a water injecting hole at the upper portion attached on a wall of the containing chamber, a pump connected with the water tube and a water passageway formed between the containing chamber and the reservoir. The water chamber pivotally connected in the containing chamber is provided with a pushing board connected pivotally at the front side. The icing device installed at the top of the water chamber is provided with plural icing bars spaced apart and extending into the water chamber.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0007] This invention is better understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

[0008] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an icemaker in the present invention;

[0009] FIG. 2 is a partial perspective view of the icemaker in the present invention, showing it being operated;

[0010] FIG. 3 is a top view of FIG. 2;

[0011] FIG. 4 is a partial side elevational view of the ice maker in the present invention, showing it being operated; and

[0012] FIG. 5 is another partial side elevational view of the icemaker in the present invention, showing it being operated.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0013] First, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, a preferred embodiment of an icemaker in the present invention includes a main body 1, a water chamber 2, an icing device 3 and a cover 4.

[0014] The main body 1 is provided with a control panel 10 on a front surface, a reservoir 11 in the front lower portion provided with a water inlet 110 near its bottom, a containing chamber 12 at an upper rear portion provided with a supporting plate 120 located at an inner wall of one side, a water tube 13 connected with the water entry 110 and provided with a water injecting hole 130 at an upper portion attached on a wall of the containing chamber 12 under the supporting plate 120, a pump 14 connected with the water tube 13 and a water passageway 15 formed between the containing chamber 12 and the reservoir 11.

[0015] The water chamber 2 pivotally connected in the containing chamber 12 is provided with a pushing board 20 connected pivotally at the front side.

[0016] The icing device 3 installed at the top of the water chamber 2 is provided with plural icing bars 30 spaced apart and extending vertically into the water chamber 2.

[0017] The cover 4 is set on the top of the main body 1.

[0018] In using, as shown in FIGS. 1-5, press a starting button in the control panel 10 of the main body 1 first. Then water is to flow through the water inlet 110 of the reservoir 11 into the water tube 13 and pressurized by the pump 14 to flow up to the water injecting hole 130 and fall into the water chamber 2. The icing device 3 begins to carry out a freezing process as soon as the water chamber 2 is filled full. Meanwhile, the pump 14 is to keep pumping water into the water chamber 2, letting the overflowing water pass down through the water passageway 15 in front of the containing chamber 12, and back in the reservoir 11. By the time, the icing bars 30 of the icing device 3 extending in the water chamber 2 can freeze gradually the water around the icing bars 30 to quickly become ice blocks (A). When the ice blocks (A) are completely formed clear and bright, the pump 14 is stopped from injecting water. Next, turn and tilt the water chamber 2, and then the water remaining on the ice blocks (A) drops down. Then carry out unfreezing to keep ice blocks (A) as many as the number of the icing bars 30 released from the icing bars 30 to drop into the containing chamber 12. After the water chamber 2 turns back to the normal or horizontal position, the ice blocks (A) are shoveled by the pushing board 20 pivotally connected at the front of the water chamber 2, sliding along the pushing board 20 into an ice container (not shown in Figures and able to be put on the reservoir 11 before unfreezing).

[0019] Therefore, the invention can manufacture and unfreeze sanitary clear ice blocks quickly for urgent need.

[0020] While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been described above, it will be recognized and understood that various modifications may be made therein and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications that may fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims

1. An icemaker comprising: a main body provided with a reservoir having a water inlet near its bottom, a containing chamber at an upper portion having a supporting plate located at an inner wall of one side, a water tube connected with said water inlet and possessing a water injecting hole at an upper portion attached on a wall of said containing chamber under said supporting plate, a pump connected with said water tube and a water passageway formed between said containing chamber and said reservoir; a water chamber pivotally connected in said containing chamber and provided with a pushing board connected pivotally at the front side; an icing device installed at the top of said water chamber and provided with plural icing bars spaced apart and extending into said water chamber; and said pump operated to pump pressurized water in said water chamber, said icing device beginning to freeze the water in said water chamber when said water chamber is filled with water, said pump keeping on pumping water into said water chamber unlit the water around each said icing bars is frozen hard, so as to obtain clear and bright ice blocks.

2. An icemaker as claimed in claim 1, wherein said main body is provided with a control panel on a front surface.

3. An icemaker as claimed in claim 1, wherein said main body is provided with a cover in topside.