Abstract:
A box-like ice block collecting receptacle and flexible multiple compartment freezing tray combination which allows the tray with its frozen contents to be inverted and supported on the receptacle by means of cooperating raised support surfaces arranged intermediate each of the side and end walls adjacent its upper open end. The tray is supported in a horizontal manner whereby either pair of unsupported diagonally opposed tray corners can be flexed downwardly out of a horizontal plane for twisting the tray and distorting the compartments to harvest ice cubes into the container. The container additionally provides for the tray to be nested in an upright or inverted position on the storage container in lid-like fashion.
Abstract:
A resilient plastic ice tray and integral grid formed by a longitudinal center partition having an inverted V-shaped cross section together with transverse partitions enclosing two rows of freezing compartments. The tray center partition being of greater height than its transverse partitions, end walls and side walls to allow complementary notched locking guides formed on the underside thereof to cooperate with the upstanding rib portion of the central partition of an underlying tray for relative sliding movement therebetween and to support the trays in interlocked nested fashion when the trays are stacked one upon another in vertically aligned relation. Each tray has its side and end walls provided with an outwardly extending flange wall which allows a tray with its frozen contents to be inverted and nested over a receiving container having a cooperating outwardly directed seating ledge about its upper open end to harvest ice cubes into the container while the container additionally provides for a tray to be nested in an upright position either over or under the container.