Patent ID: 7748230

Claim:
A refrigerator, comprising: an ice making device making ice; an ice container storing the ice made in the ice making device comprising: an opening through which the ice is discharged, and a carrying shaft carrying the ice to the opening; an outlet, into which the ice carried to the opening is supplied, discharging the ice to an outside of the refrigerator; three rotating blades coupled with the carrying shaft and carrying the ice discharged from the opening to the outlet; a supporting blade provided adjacent to the outlet and reciprocally moving with respect to the rotating blades; and an operating lever arranged adjacent to the opening, wherein the outlet is arranged to deviate from an ice discharging axis of the opening, and the operating lever reciprocally moves between a separation position in which the operating lever is separated from a radial end of the supporting blade by a gap and an approach position in which the operating lever approaches the radial end of the supporting blade and reduces the gap, the gap formed between the operating lever and the supporting blade in the separation position accommodating unshaved ice, the reduced gap formed between the operating lever and the supporting blade in the approach position forcing the ice from the gap into a path to be shaved by a reciprocal operation of the rotating blades and the supporting blade, and wherein the three rotating blades include at least three sets of rotating blades arranged in a substantially isometric angle with respect to one another and maintaining the substantially isometric angle during rotation of the carrying shaft.