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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ice dispenser hardly producing the engagement thereof with square ice according to the feeding of the square ice and preventing large rupture noise and excessive load on a motor from being produced. SOLUTION: In this ice dispenser D, the square ice C is sent out to the outside of a storage chamber 12 through a discharge port 41 formed in a front side wall 14 forming the storage chamber at a position higher than the center bottom face 25a of the storage chamber 12. A feeding means 21 forcing out the square ice C along a center bottom surface 25c toward the discharge port 41 side is installed at the center bottom part 25c of the storage chamber 12, the square ice C feeding passage 51 from the feeding means 21 to the discharge port 41 is generally formed as a smooth ascending sloped surface, and a return stop means 53 for the square ice C during feeding is installed on the feeding passage 51. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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