Abstract: A refrigerator includes a freezer compartment and an ice-making apparatus. The ice-making apparatus includes a support, a plurality of ice cube trays, a connecting rod rotating shaft, and a swinging member. Each ice cube tray includes a tray body, and a driving shaft and a hinge shaft connected to the tray body. The connecting rod rotating shaft includes a rotating shaft and a swinging shaft that are arranged in parallel and spaced from each other, and a connecting section connecting the rotating shaft and the swinging shaft. The swinging member includes a body, a hinge hole provided in the body and a plurality of support portions provided on the body.

Abstract: A household refrigeration apparatus has an ice maker with a housing. The housing is formed with a wall element, which has an L-shape in cross-section. The wall element includes a first wall plate and a second wall plate, which together form the L-shape. The housing further has a positioning bracket separate from the wall element. The positioning bracket is non-rectilinear and has a first end, which is non-destructively detachably connected to the first wall plate of the wall element, and has a second end, which is non-destructively detachably connected to the second wall plate.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a freezer segment for a freezer of the type used for casting confectionery in molds which are cooled for freezing and subsequently supplied with heat for a short period, whereafter stripping occurs. Cooling of the molds is effected by using direct evaporation of CO2. The advantage of such a freezer segment is that there is no use for both a primary and a secondary cooling circuit. Another advantage in using a system according to the invention is that working with temperatures down to about minus 50° C. is enabled, compared to about minus 40° C. with brine systems. The low freezing temperature entails that the capacity of a given system is increased by about 40%.

Abstract: An icemaker in a refrigerator is disclosed, by which heat generated from a heater to detach ice is prevented from being transferred to an inside of the refrigerator. The present invention includes an icemaker body provided to a prescribed position of the refrigerator to make to ice from a supplied water, a heater provided to the icemaker body to generate heat to facilitate detachment of the made ice, and a heater shielding unit provided to prevent the heat generated from the heater from being supplied to an inside of the refrigerator.

Abstract: A fastening device for an ice maker of a refrigerator is provided which improves ease and efficiency of installation is provided. Mounting brackets formed along a side of the ice maker each include an insertion portion formed as an opening in the mounting bracket, and a catching portion formed as an opening adjacent to the insertion portion and with a smaller width than that of the insertion portion. Hangers having a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion are affixed to the wall of the freezing chamber by a fastener, and the mounting brackets are slid onto the hangers until the small diameter portion of the hanger is caught in the catching section of the mounting bracket. The ice maker may be further secured by additional fixing brackets opposite the mounting brackets. This fastening device allows the ice maker to be more easily installed while also minimizing the potential for damage to the brackets or the wall surface of the freezer during installation.

Abstract: According to the invention, a support/heat shield is provided for mounting an ice maker from the plastic liner on the inside of a refrigeration apparatus. The invention contemplates mounting the support/heat shield on the liner at the juncture of a first, horizontal wall, and a second vertical wall, depending from the first wall. The support/heat shield, in its simplest state, has third and fourth flat walls, at right angles to each other, with wall surfaces for situation facially against the first and second liner walls. The fourth wall is attached to the first liner wall and the third wall to the second liner wall. The icemaker is attached to the third wall of the support/heat shield.

Abstract: A low cost automatic ice cube maker of simplified construction for use in the freezer compartment of a domestic refrigerator. The ice maker includes a one-piece, molded plastic bail or sensing arm for monitoring the level of ice cubes in an underlying storage bin. The movable bail includes fingerlike resilient projection extending radially from one of the end portions of the bail. The distal end of the projection engages a portion of the ice maker fixed in position relative to the movable bail wherein the resilient projection functions as a springlike member biasing the bail toward a lowermost position. The ice maker also includes a pivotally mounted ice tray that can be easily snapped out of its ice making position for removal and cleaning at a location outside the freezer compartment. An externally accessible mechanism for actuating a test switch of the internal control circuit of the ice maker is provided to facilitate servicing of the ice maker.

Abstract: For picking up ice lollies which have been frozen in split moulds which are adapted to be inserted into rows of freezing pockets of an ice-lolly machine, an appartus is used comprising two rods. One of the rods is connected with one of the mould parts in each of the freezing pockets, and the other rod is connected with the other mould part in the freezing pocket. Means are arranged at the ends of each rod for engaging guiding means at a pick-up station. The guiding means are adapted for moving the rods away from each other after withdrawal of the lower moulds in question and for moving the rods towards each other after the ice lollies have been removed, and for inserting the moulds in the row of freezing pockets. The apparatus automaticizes the withdrawal and the insertion of the moulds in such a way that such withdrawal and insertion and the removal of the ice lollies may be carried out during the same working operation which is used by picking up ice lollies in normal automatic ice-lolly freezing machines.

Abstract: A slab-type ice maker having a cabinet provided with an inner liner, an ice slab-forming evaporator structure, a slab-cutting grid structure, and a water pan structure. Improved structure is provided for mounting the evaporator, cutting grid, and water pan structures in the cabinet.

Abstract: An ice maker for use in freezing compartments of refrigerators and freezers provides a thermal cut-out or fuse to prevent damage in the event of overtemperature conditions. The thermal fuse is located in a closed compartment where it cannot be accidentally damaged or moved. A leaf spring provides an end engaging the thermal fuse to reliably hold the thermal fuse in good heat exchange relationship with the mold in which the ice cubes are formed. The ice maker also provides an improved mounting structure permitting support fasteners to be partially threaded into the wall of the freezer compartment before the ice maker is moved to its mounted position.