Patent ID: 7905200

Claim:
An apparatus for dispensing ice in an entertaining manner to a recipient comprising, a support structure; a compartment attached to the support structure wherein the compartment has an input and an output and is able to hold ice; a means for dispensing the ice having an input and an output wherein the input of the dispensing means is in communication with the compartment output; an electronically programmable means for actuating the dispensing means that is from a group consisting of a motion detector, a heat detector, and a pressure switch; and an electronically programmable means of deactivating actuation of the dispensing means and having no configurations able to be set by the ice recipient and having a configuration that restricts a number of actuations of the dispensing means to between one and three within each successive half hour period of time and deactivates the dispensing means for any balance of the half hour period of time, wherein the means for actuating the dispensing means is in electronic communication with the means of deactivating actuation and the dispensing means.