Patent ID: 8984907
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: F25C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for producing flake ice from a liquid, comprising: a housing; an evaporator roller rotatably mounted on the housing; a shaft on the evaporator roller that transmits a torque from a drive to the evaporator roller; at least two bearing bushings permanently disposed on the housing, and the shaft is rotatably mounted and supported in the bushings; a scraper to strip ice formed from the liquid on the surface of the evaporator roller; a pan open at a top to receive the liquid to be frozen, the pan having two pan side sections and a pan base section that connects the pan side sections to each other and delimits the pan at front, rear and bottom; the pan is insertable or slidable together with the pan side sections and the pan base section in one piece onto the bearing bushings, or onto coupling elements that are disposed on the shaft or on the bearing bushings, or directly onto the shaft; the pan in an installed state provides a fluid-tight connection between the pan, and the bearing bushings coupling elements or the shaft that receive the pan and directly adjoin the pan when the pan is in the installed state; the shaft and the evaporator roller are mounted on the housing independently of the pan; and the pan is installable to and removable from the housing together with the pan side sections and the pan base section in one piece while the evaporator roller remains rotatably mounted on the housing.