Patent ID: 8516835

Claim:
An ice tray, comprising: an ice cavity formed on a first side for receiving water and creating an ice cube, the ice cavity having a rectangular cavity portion, unmovable, inflexible, and rigid outermost walls, and an unmovable, inflexible, and rigid floor; and a plurality of rectangular water cavities formed on a second side, the plurality of water cavities adjacent the ice cavity, rectilinear, unmovable, inflexible, and rigid channels that extend perpendicularly from the plurality of water cavities that are adjacent the outermost walls of the ice cavity and the floor separating the ice cavity from the plurality of water cavities, the channels contiguous with and in fluid communication with the plurality of water cavities, the plurality of water cavities are separated by corresponding walls, such that water can be poured into one of the water cavities without entering another one of the water cavities such that when warm water is poured in the plurality of water cavities the water flows into the channels and heat from the water transfers to the ice cavity through the through the outermost walls and the floor and begins to melt the ice cube, wherein the ice cube automatically falls from the ice cavity without movement of the floor and the outermost walls when the ice tray is manually rotated so that the water cavity faces upward and the ice cavity faces downward.