Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stir stick and breaker walls for an ice container
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Application No.: US15387109Application Date: 2016-12-21
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Publication No.: US10508853B2Publication Date: 2019-12-17
- Inventor: Jerold M. Visin
- Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US MI Benton Harbor
- Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
- Current Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Benton Harbor
- Agency: Nyemaster Goode, P.C.
- Main IPC: F25C5/182
- IPC: F25C5/182 ; F25C5/04

Abstract:
A refrigerator having a cabinet, a door for providing access within the cabinet, an ice maker for making ice operably connected to the cabinet, and an ice bin with a pair of opposite-facing walls and a bottom wall. The ice bin is disposed within the cabinet and located adjacent the ice maker, and has a stir stick assembly having a stir stick, a cam rod, and a pair of breaker walls and is positioned within the ice bin. The stir stick oscillates about an axis of rotation and the cam rod is coupled to the stir stick. The pair of breaker walls are engaged with the cam rod near the bottom of the breaker walls, and hingedly attached to the pair of opposite-facing walls.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170108259A1 STIR STICK AND BREAKER WALLS FOR AN ICE CONTAINER Public/Granted day:2017-04-20
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