| 摘要 |
An ice maker of the type employing a refrigerated chamber and a harvesting auger positioned with its flights in scraping relation to inner walls of the refrigerated chamber for continuously scraping ice particles from the walls. A screw shaft co-rotatable with the harvesting auger drives the ice product harvested by the auger in the form of a confined columnar path through a discharge conduit and forces the ice product through a compression means similar to an extrusion member which may be of any one of a number of configurations to produce variously configured ice products, such as "ice cubes", ice chips, ice flakes or cracked ice, depending upon the particular requirements of the user. The machine is further characterized by releasable attachment means removably securing one of the extrusion members at an outermost end of the screw shaft, thereby to facilitate interchanging one extrusion member for another of a different configuration to adapt the machine for producing differently configured ice products.
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