Patent ID: 7571619
Filing Date: 2009-08-11
Classification: F25C,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A refrigerator having a freezer and a freezer door for opening and closing the freezer, the refrigerator comprising: an ice storage container provided in the freezer and formed with an opening at a side thereof; an ice breaking part for receiving ice cubes stored in the ice storage container and making shaved ice; a rotating blade which is rotatably provided in the opening; a first discharging part for discharging the ice cubes discharged to the opening and crushed ice broken by the rotating blade; a second discharging part which communicates with the ice breaking part to cause the ice cubes which are released from the opening to be transferred by the rotating blade into the ice breaking part to form the shaved ice; and first and second discharging levers for opening and closing the first discharging part and the second discharging part, respectively, wherein the second discharging lever opens the second discharging part when discharging the shaved ice.