Patent ID: 7185508
Filing Date: 2007-03-06
Classification: F25C

Abstract:
1. An automatic ice maker, comprising: a housing; an ice cube tray moveably mounted to the housing for movement between a fill and a harvest position and defining multiple ice cube recesses having open tops and closed bottoms—for receiving and holding water to form an ice cube therein, and each ice cube recess having an upper and lower surface; each ice cube recess having a flexible portion made from a resilient material to permit the flexing of the flexible portion to aid in the removal of an ice cube formed therein; a low friction coating applied to the upper surface of each ice cube recess; and a harvest mechanism moving the ice cube tray from the fill to the harvest position and deforming the resilient portion of each ice cube recess as the ice cube tray is moved from the fill position to the harvest position to aid in removing the ice cube in the ice cube recess.