Patent ID: 8794025

Claim:
An apparatus for the preparation of coloured ice cubes, comprising: a connection for a water supply; a single central heating means; an array of two or more colour recipients intended for receiving a colouring agent, each colour recipient comprising a colour recipient water inlet and a colour recipient water outlet for discharging coloured water; and, at least one freezing means for preparing coloured ice cubes; wherein the single central heating means is connected to the connection for the water supply for feeding the heating means with water, the single central heating means comprising a heating means water outlet for discharging hot water, the heating means water outlet being connected to each of the colour recipient water inlets for feeding the colour recipients with hot water; and, wherein the apparatus further comprises a single central cooling means, the single central cooling means having a cooling means water inlet, the cooling means water inlet being connected to the connection for the water supply for feeding the single central cooling means with water, and the single central cooling means also comprising a cooling means water outlet for discharging cooled water; and, said apparatus further comprising an array of two or more mixing means, each of the mixing means in the array of two or more mixing means corresponding to a colour recipient in the array of two or more colour recipients, for mixing the coloured water with the cooled water, each of the mixing means in the array of two or more mixing means comprising a mixing means water inlet for receiving coloured water discharged from the corresponding colour recipient in the array of two or more colour recipients, each mixing means further comprising a mixing means water inlet for cooled water discharged from the single central cooling means, and each mixing means in the array of two or more mixing means further comprising a mixing means water outlet connected to the at least one freezing means.