Patent ID: 8061157

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising an icemaker for forming ice pieces, an ice chamber positioned under the icemaker, providing the formed ice pieces to be collected, a dosaging unit providing the ice pieces received from the ice chamber to be delivered to the desired containers, an ice dispenser allowing the user to deliver the ice pieces to the desired container and a pathway situated under the dosaging unit, connecting the ice dispenser with the dosaging unit, delivering the ice pieces received from the dosaging unit to the ice dispenser and wherein the dosaging unit has a body, an inlet on the upper portion of the body located under the ice chamber, an outlet on the lower portion of the body, located above the pathway, a loading position in which an upper plate is situated at the inlet providing the ice pieces delivered to the ice chamber to be taken one by one and preventing the ice pieces to be delivered to the outlet, when not desired, a lower plate preventing the ice piece to pass into the outlet while the upper plate allows the passage of the ice piece, and providing the ice piece to be disposed in the outlet after the upper plate allows the passage of the ice piece a connection part directly attached to the upper plate and the lower plate, the upper plate and the lower plate being arranged in parallel spaced planes, wherein the movement of each plate is co-planar allowing only one ice piece to enter in between them; the connection part attached to the body at a center of said connection part such that the connection part rotates around said center, while moving the upper plate and the lower plate in opposite directions, thereby allowing the disposed ice piece into the outlet or dispensing the ice piece from the outlet; and a movement mechanism returning the upper plate, the lower plate and the connection part from a dispensing position to said loading position, thus repeating a dosaging process.