Patent ID: 8360116

Claim:
A dispenser comprising: a housing having an interior bounded by at least one wall and a chute extending from the interior and through the wall; a drum having an internal cavity and an upwardly oriented mouth, the drum rotatably disposed within the interior of the housing; an advancing fin disposed on an inner surface of the internal cavity of the drum; an ice maker attached to the housing such that the ice maker is adapted to receive water and turn the water into ice, the produced ice gravitationally falling from the ice maker into the mouth of the drum; a bagging and delivery unit disposed below mouth of the drum such that the bagging unit causes the ice falling out of the mouth to be received within a bag with the bag and ice being delivered into the chute wherein the bagging and delivery unit comprises; a hopper having a trap door that pivots between a raised position and a lowered position the hopper receiving ice from the drum; a bag rack adapted to receive a plurality of bags; a blower that blow opens one of the bags; a floor panel capable of pivoting between a raised position and a lowered position; and wherein when the device is activated, the drum rotates such that the advancing fin causes the ice disposed within the internal cavity of the drum to advance out of the mouth and fall into the hopper and such that when a sufficient quantity of ice is present within the hopper, the drum discontinues rotating and thereafter the blower blow opens the bag and thereafter the trap door drops to the lowered position causing the ice within the hopper to drop into the blown open bag and thereafter the floor panel is pivoted to the raised position thereby delivering the bag with ice into the chute.