Abstract: An automatic ice making machine employing a compression refrigeration system permitting utilization of a single compressor and condenser coil to provide cooled liquid refrigerant for one or more remote evaporator coils, each evaporator coil arranged in heat exchange relationship with a separate group of ice forming cells. A pressure responsive timer terminated control system is employed to control the cycle of operation of the ice making machine. The control system is relatively inexpensive in production and maintenance and acts to implement the operation of the evaporators in a desired flooded condition insuring the attainment of a relatively uniform cooling gradient across the ice forming cells.