Patent ID: 7010933
Filing Date: 2006-03-14
Classification: F25C

Abstract:
1. An ice-making mechanism of an ice-making machine which is adapted so that ice-making water stored within an ice-making water tank disposed below an ice-making unit cooled by an evaporating pipe is supplied to said ice-making unit via a pump motor and so that the ice-making water not becoming iced in said ice-making unit is collected into said ice-making water tank and recirculated, wherein: said ice-making water tank comprises a circulating tank section to which said pump motor connects, and a retention tank section set to a capacity greater than that of said circulating tank section, wherein said circulating tank section and said retention tank section communicate with each other; and guide means is provided above said ice-making water tank, said guide means guiding only to said circulating tank section the ice-making water un-iced in said ice-making unit, said ice-making mechanism being characterized in that: