Refrigeration device comprising an ice dispenser, and corresponding assembly

US9459035B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BSH Hausgeräte GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Martin Buchstab · Bopfingen, DE
• Irene Dumkow · Sontheim, DE
• Adolf Feinauer · Giengen an der Brenz, DE
• Klaus Flinner · Mössingen, DE
• Bernd Heger · Gundelfingen an der Donau, DE
• Helen Lewis · Worcester, GB
• Peter Nalbach · Owen, DE
• Martin Pünjer · Ulm, DE
• Craig Webster · Plano, US
• Nathan Wrench · Swaffham Prior, GB
• Kasim Yazan · Ulm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 22, 2007
• Grant date: Oct 4, 2016
• Expiry date: Dec 30, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F25C2500/08
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

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.