Patent ID: 8104297

Claim:
An ice-maker tray comprising: a plurality of compartments, wherein each compartment each has a form of a segment of a body of rotation, wherein the body of rotation includes a semi-cylindrical base having a continuous outer circumferential surface and a plurality of partition walls segmenting an interior of the semi-cylindrical base into the plurality of compartments, wherein the compartments are arranged in at least one row, wherein a wall of the semi-cylindrical base includes a portion that extends above an upper edge of the plurality of partition walls separating the compartments of the row from one another such that water filling the tray flows past the plurality of partition walls via the portion of the wall extending above the upper edge of the plurality of partition walls and into each of the plurality of compartments when the tray is pivoted into an inclined state in which the openings of the compartments face at an angle upward, and wherein the wall is formed at a longitudinal side of each row of compartments and at least a part of the transverse sides thereof.