CN105042974A - Device and method for making fancy ice - Google Patents
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The invention provides a device and method for making fancy ice. The device comprises an ice making box and evaporation pipes. The ice making box comprises an ice making inner cavity. The evaporation pipes are located at the bottom of the ice making box and used for cooling water in the ice making inner cavity into ice. The device further comprises a diversion structure arranged on the ice making box and used for leading water exceeding the maximum water capacity of the ice making inner cavity out of the ice making box. According to the device for making the fancy ice, when a small amount of water is supplied into the ice making box and kept still, the small amount of water can be completely cooled into white ice through the evaporation pipes; when water continues to be supplied to the surface of the white ice and flows on the surface of the white ice, the diversion structure can lead the water exceeding the maximum water capacity of the ice making inner cavity out of the ice making box, the evaporation pipes cool the water on the surface of the white ice into a layer of transparent ice, and therefore the white ice and the fancy ice with the transparent ice layer arrayed in an overlapped manner can be made.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of ice making equipment and process, in particular to a device and a method for preparing fancy ice.
Background
There are various ice making apparatuses in the prior art, however, these ice making apparatuses can be classified into two types according to the types of ice that can be made, a white ice maker in which only white ice can be made, and a transparent ice maker in which only transparent ice can be made.
As shown in fig. 1, the ice cube maker disclosed in chinese patent document CN101881535A belongs to a white ice maker, and includes a bracket 010 and an evaporator 011 mounted on the bracket 010, where the evaporator 011 has a rectangular ice making housing 012, an ice grid 013 formed by welding hollow partition plates is disposed in the ice making housing 012, a refrigerant flow channel 014 is disposed in the partition plates, a refrigerant inlet 015 and a refrigerant outlet 016 communicated with the refrigerant flow channel 014 are disposed outside the ice making housing 012, a lower cover 017 is disposed at the bottom of the ice making housing 012, the lower cover 017 is movably connected with the bottom of the ice making housing 012 and is used for sealing the lower opening of the ice grid 013, an ice containing plate 019 opposite to the lower opening of the ice grid 013 is disposed at the bottom of the bracket 010, and a fence 018 is disposed around the ice containing plate 019. When ice is made, the lower cover plate 017 is pulled upwards to be buckled at the bottom of the ice lattices 013, all the ice lattices 013 are ensured to be watertight, then a certain amount of water is added into the ice lattices 013, a refrigerant enters the refrigerant flow channel 014 through the refrigerant inlet 015 and exchanges heat with the water in the ice lattices 013, the refrigerant rises in temperature and evaporates, then the refrigerant flows out through the refrigerant outlet 016, and after the water temperature in the ice lattices 013 is reduced to be completely frozen, ice blocks are obtained; since a certain amount of still water is stored in the ice grids 013 when the ice grids 013 are cooled, the ice prepared in this way is white ice.
The ice maker disclosed in chinese patent document CN203940675U belongs to a transparent ice maker, and as shown in fig. 2, includes a support 01, a housing 02 mounted on the support 01, a plurality of ice grids 03 are arranged side by side on the side wall of the housing 02, an evaporation tube (not shown in the figure) for refrigeration is arranged at the back of the ice tray 03, a water spraying pipe 04 is further fixedly arranged at the top of the housing 02, a water spraying area 05 is arranged below the water spraying pipe 04, and an overflow opening 06 for guiding water in the water spraying area 05 to the ice grids 03 is arranged on the water spraying area 05; when the ice maker works, the water spraying pipes 04 downwards flow water slowly and uniformly, the water flows into each corresponding ice grid 03 through the overflow ports 06 after flowing into the water spraying area 05, and the water in the ice grids 03 is cooled and frozen under the refrigeration effect of the evaporation pipes; since the water in the ice tray 03 flows when the ice tray 03 is cooled, the ice thus prepared is transparent ice.
However, no ice making device capable of producing fancy ice or a method capable of producing fancy ice has been available in the prior art, and therefore, how to design a device capable of producing fancy ice and a method capable of producing fancy ice are technical problems which have not been solved in the prior art.
Disclosure of Invention
Therefore, the technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to overcome the technical defect that the ice type produced by the ice making machine in the prior art is either white ice or transparent ice, resulting in single ice type, thereby providing an ice making device capable of producing fancy ice.
The invention aims to solve another technical problem of overcoming the technical defect that the ice making method in the prior art can only prepare white ice or transparent ice to cause single ice type, thereby providing the ice making method capable of preparing fancy ice.
The invention provides a device for preparing fancy ice, which comprises an ice making box, a water tank and a water tank, wherein the ice making box is provided with an ice making inner cavity;
the evaporation pipe is positioned at the bottom of the ice making box and used for cooling the water in the ice making cavity into ice;
the ice making box is characterized by further comprising a flow guide structure, wherein the flow guide structure is arranged on the ice making box and used for guiding water exceeding the set water capacity of the ice making cavity to the outside of the ice making box.
As an improved scheme, the flow guide structure comprises an overflow groove which is arranged on the ice making box and communicated with the ice making inner cavity.
As an improved scheme, the flow guide structure comprises a plurality of overflow holes which are arranged on the ice making box and communicated with the ice making inner cavity, and the overflow holes are arranged along the height direction of the ice making inner cavity.
As an improvement scheme, the ice making box is provided with an arc-shaped bottom surface, a baffle is arranged in the ice making box, and the baffle divides the ice making box into a plurality of mutually independent ice making grooves which are distributed along the axial direction of the ice making box.
As an improved scheme, the flow guide structures are provided in plurality, and the flow guide structures are respectively communicated with the ice making grooves one by one.
As a modification, the part of the evaporation pipe contacting or close to the ice making box is provided with a matching side wall matched and attached with the outer wall of the ice making box.
As a modification, the ice making box further comprises an ice removing structure for pulling out the prepared ice blocks from the inside of the ice making box along the arc-shaped bottom surface; the deicing structure comprises a rotating shaft which is rotatably arranged on the machine shell, a shifting plate which is arranged on the rotating shaft, and a driving motor which drives the rotating shaft to rotate and further drives the shifting plate to rotate, so that ice blocks in the ice making box are shifted outwards.
As an improvement scheme, the ice making machine further comprises a conveying pipe used for conveying water for making ice to the ice making box, and guide holes corresponding to the ice making grooves one to one are formed in the conveying pipe.
The invention also provides a method for preparing fancy ice, which comprises the following steps,
firstly, supplying a certain amount of water to an ice making cavity of an ice making box and then stopping, and controlling an evaporation pipe to completely cool all water in the ice making cavity into white ice; continuously supplying water to the surface of the white ice, wherein the water exceeding the set water capacity is guided to the outside of the ice making box by the guide structure, the water supplied to the surface of the white ice is cooled into a layer of transparent ice by the evaporation pipe, and the step is operated for one or more times and is stopped after any step is finished, so that the fancy ice is prepared; or
Firstly, controlling to open the evaporation pipe and continuously supplying water to an ice making cavity of the ice making box, wherein the water exceeding the set water capacity is guided to the outside of the ice making box through the guide structure, and the evaporation pipe cools the water in the ice making cavity into a layer of transparent ice; and stopping supplying water to the ice making cavity, completely cooling the water on the surface of the transparent ice into white ice by the evaporation pipe, operating the steps one to more times, and stopping after any step is finished, thereby preparing the fancy ice.
As a refinement, the ice making box comprises a plurality of ice making grooves, and water is separately supplied to the ice making grooves by using a water conveying pipe.
The device for preparing fancy ice comprises an ice making box, a water tank and a water tank, wherein the ice making box is provided with an ice making inner cavity;
the evaporation pipe is positioned at the bottom of the ice making box and used for cooling the water in the ice making cavity into ice;
the ice making box is characterized by further comprising a flow guide structure, wherein the flow guide structure is arranged on the ice making box and used for guiding water exceeding the set water capacity of the ice making cavity to the outside of the ice making box.
As an improved scheme, the flow guide structure comprises an overflow groove which is arranged on the ice making box and communicated with the ice making inner cavity.
As an improved scheme, the flow guide structure comprises a plurality of overflow holes which are arranged on the ice making box and communicated with the ice making inner cavity, and the overflow holes are arranged along the height direction of the ice making inner cavity.
As an improvement scheme, the ice making box is provided with an arc-shaped bottom surface, a baffle is arranged in the ice making box, and the baffle divides the ice making box into a plurality of mutually independent ice making grooves which are distributed along the axial direction of the ice making box.
As an improved scheme, the flow guide structures are provided in plurality, and the flow guide structures are respectively communicated with the ice making grooves one by one.
As a modification, the part of the evaporation pipe contacting or close to the ice making box is provided with a matching side wall matched and attached with the outer wall of the ice making box.
As a modification, the ice making box further comprises an ice removing structure for pulling out the prepared ice blocks from the inside of the ice making box along the arc-shaped bottom surface; the deicing structure comprises a rotating shaft which is rotatably arranged on the machine shell, a shifting plate which is arranged on the rotating shaft, and a driving motor which drives the rotating shaft to rotate and further drives the shifting plate to rotate, so that ice blocks in the ice making box are shifted outwards.
As an improvement scheme, the ice making machine further comprises a conveying pipe used for conveying water for making ice to the ice making box, and guide holes corresponding to the ice making grooves one to one are formed in the conveying pipe.
The invention also provides a method for preparing the fancy ice, which comprises the following steps
Firstly, supplying a certain amount of water to an ice making cavity of an ice making box and then stopping, and controlling an evaporation pipe to completely cool all water in the ice making cavity into white ice; then, water is continuously supplied to the surface of the white ice, and the diversion structure diverts the water exceeding the set water capacity to the outside of the ice making box; the evaporating pipe cools the water supplied to the surface of the white ice into a layer of transparent ice, the steps are operated for one to multiple times, and the operation is stopped after any step is finished, so that the fancy ice is prepared; or
Firstly, controlling to open the evaporation pipe and continuously supplying water to an ice making cavity of the ice making box, wherein the water exceeding the set water capacity is guided to the outside of the ice making box through the guide structure, and the evaporation pipe cools the water in the ice making cavity into a layer of transparent ice; and stopping supplying water to the ice making cavity, completely cooling the water on the surface of the transparent ice into white ice by the evaporation pipe, operating the steps one to more times, and stopping after any step is finished, thereby preparing the fancy ice.
As a refinement, the ice making box comprises a plurality of ice making grooves, and water is separately supplied to the ice making grooves by using a water conveying pipe.
The device and the method for preparing fancy ice have the following advantages that:
1. the invention relates to a device for preparing fancy ice, wherein an ice making box is provided with an ice making inner cavity, the ice making box is provided with a flow guide structure for guiding water exceeding the set water capacity of the ice making inner cavity to the outside of the ice making box, when a small part of water is supplied to the inside of the ice making box and is kept static, an evaporation pipe can cool the small part of water into white ice, when water is continuously supplied on the surface of the white ice and flows on the surface of the white ice, the flow guide structure can guide the water exceeding the set water capacity of the ice making inner cavity to the outside of the ice making box, and the evaporation pipe cools the water on the surface of the white ice into a layer of transparent ice, namely the device can prepare the fancy ice with the white ice and the transparent ice which are arranged in a laminated manner.
2. According to the device for preparing the fancy ice, the flow guide structure is the overflow groove which is arranged on the ice making box and communicated with the ice making inner cavity, when the transparent ice layer needs to be prepared, the overflow groove can ensure that water input into the ice making inner cavity continuously flows outwards, so that the water generates fluidity in the ice making inner cavity, and the transparent ice layer is prepared under the cooling action of the evaporation pipe. Furthermore, the ice making box can be further provided with a flow guide structure comprising a plurality of overflow holes which are arranged on the ice making box and communicated with the ice making inner cavity, and the overflow holes are arranged along the height direction of the ice making inner cavity, so that the ice making inner cavity is divided into spaces with a plurality of set water volumes, and the white ice and the transparent ice can be prepared into the fancy ice which is alternately stacked for a plurality of times.
3. According to the device for preparing the fancy ice, the ice making box is provided with the arc-shaped bottom surface, and the baffle plate divides the ice making box into the plurality of ice making grooves which are mutually independent, so that the crescent fancy ice can be prepared by the device for preparing the fancy ice, and the ice blocks generated in the ice making grooves are easy to pull out and easy to ice shedding due to the arc-shaped bottom surface.
4. According to the device for preparing the fancy ice, the part of the evaporation pipe, which is in contact with or close to the ice making box, is provided with the matching side wall which is matched and attached with the outer wall of the ice making box, and the matching side wall can increase the attaching area of the evaporation pipe and the ice making box, so that the transmission efficiency of cold or heat is increased.
5. The device for preparing the fancy ice further comprises an ice-shedding structure used for pulling the prepared ice blocks outwards from the inner part of the ice making box along the cambered bottom surface, the rotating shaft drives the pulling plate to turn over under the driving action of the driving motor, so that the ice blocks in the ice making box or the ice making groove are pulled outwards, and the ice-shedding is simple and rapid.
6. The invention also provides a method for preparing the fancy ice, which comprises the steps of inputting part of water into the ice making cavity of the ice making box at the beginning by controlling the water quantity input into the ice making cavity, keeping the water static, preparing white ice after cooling through the evaporation pipe, continuously supplying water to the ice making cavity, and enabling the water to flow, so that a layer of transparent ice is obtained by cooling above the surface of the white ice; or continuously supplying water to the ice making cavity, preparing a layer of transparent ice on the bottom surface of the ice making box, stopping supplying water to the ice making cavity, keeping the water on the surface of the transparent ice static, and preparing white ice by part of the water under the cooling action of the evaporation pipe, thereby preparing the fancy ice which does not exist in the prior art. When the ice making box has a plurality of set water volumes, the steps can be alternately carried out, so as to prepare the white ice, the transparent ice multiple-layer or the transparent ice and the white ice multiple-layer fancy ice.
7. The method for preparing the fancy ice uses the water conveying pipe to independently supply water to the ice making grooves of the ice making box, can prepare a plurality of fancy ices in one ice making box at the same time, and can prepare different fancy ices by controlling the water quantity input into each ice making groove.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of an ice making machine in the prior art.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of another ice making machine of the prior art.
Fig. 3 is a schematic view showing the overall construction of the ice-making device of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is another perspective view of fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the housing of fig. 3.
Fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of fig. 3 with the chassis removed.
Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of the exploded structure of fig. 6.
Fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of the ice making housing and the evaporation pipe after being combined.
Fig. 9 is another perspective view of fig. 8.
Fig. 10 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 8.
Reference numerals: 010-a bracket, 011-an evaporator, 012-an ice-making shell, 013-an ice grid, 014-a refrigerant flow channel, 015-a refrigerant inlet, 016-a refrigerant outlet and 017-a lower cover plate; 018-rail, 019-ice tray; 01-support, 02-shell, 03-ice tray, 04-water spraying pipe, 05-water spraying area and 06-overflow port;
1-machine shell, 11-diversion trench, 111-first mounting trench, 112-second mounting trench, 12-water tank, 13-evaporation pipe mounting hole, 2-ice making box, 21-baffle, 22-ice making trench, 23-drainage trench, 3-evaporation pipe, 31-cambered side wall, 32-heat preservation shell, 33-heat preservation material, 4-rotating shaft, 41-shifting plate, 42-driving motor, 43-U-shaped open slot, 44-rotating shaft mounting trench, 5-water conveying pipe, 51-first mounting hole, 61-first supporting block, 62-second supporting block, 63-third supporting block, 64-fourth supporting block, 65-inner cavity, 7-microswitch and 71-microswitch pressing plate.
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The apparatus and method for making fancy ice of the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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The embodiment provides a device for preparing fancy ice, as shown in fig. 3, the device comprises a housing 1, an ice making box 2 is fixedly mounted on the housing 1, an ice making cavity of the ice making box 2 has an arc bottom surface, an evaporation pipe 3 for cooling water in the ice making box 2 into ice is fixedly mounted on the outer side of the bottom surface of the ice making box 2, and the device further comprises a flow guide structure which is arranged on the ice making box 2 and used for guiding the water exceeding the maximum water capacity of the ice making cavity to the outside of the ice making box 2.
When the inside of the ice making box 2 is supplied with a small part of water and the part of water is kept still, the evaporation pipe 3 cools the small part of water into white ice, when water is continuously supplied on the surface of the white ice, the diversion structure can lead the water exceeding the maximum water capacity of the ice making cavity to the outside of the ice making box 2, when the water flows on the surface of the white ice, the evaporation pipe 3 cools the flowing water on the surface of the white ice into a layer of transparent ice,
as shown in fig. 8, the diversion structure is an overflow groove 23 provided on the ice making box 2 and communicating with the ice making cavity. When the transparent ice layer needs to be prepared, the overflow groove 23 can ensure that water input into the ice making cavity continuously flows outwards, so that the water generates fluidity in the ice making cavity, and the transparent ice layer is prepared under the cooling effect of the evaporation tube 3.
As shown in fig. 8 to 9, a plurality of baffles 21 are disposed in the ice making housing 2, and the baffles 21 divide the ice making housing 2 into a plurality of ice making grooves 22 which are axially distributed along the ice making housing 2 and are independent from each other, so that the device for preparing the fancy ice of the present invention can simultaneously prepare a plurality of crescent fancy ices. The person skilled in the art can also split the ice-making box 2 into a plurality of ice-making grooves 22 with other shapes, or directly prepare the ice-making box 2 into the form of the ice-making grooves 22 with different shapes. The overflow groove 23 is provided in plurality, and the plurality of overflow grooves 23 are in one-to-one communication with the plurality of ice making grooves 22, respectively.
The evaporation pipe 3 is contacted with or close to the bottom of the ice making box 2, and when a refrigerant flows through the inside of the evaporation pipe 3, the water in the ice making box 2 can be rapidly cooled to the freezing point to be frozen, so that the refrigeration efficiency is improved; high-temperature refrigerants can also circulate in the evaporation pipe 3, so that the temperature of the side wall of the ice making box 2 is raised, and ice blocks in contact with the inner wall of the ice making box 2 are separated from the inner wall of the ice making box 2 after being melted; the above-mentioned installation positions of the evaporation pipe 3 and the ice making housing 2 determine that there is sufficient space for installation, maintenance and cleaning of the evaporation pipe 3, and thus installation, maintenance and cleaning are convenient.
Further, in the present embodiment, a portion of the evaporation tube 3 contacting or close to the ice making housing 2 has a matching sidewall 31 matching and adhering to an outer wall of the ice making housing 2, in the present embodiment, the bottom of the ice making housing 2 is an arc shape, and thus the matching sidewall 31 is also an arc shape; when the bottom of the ice making box 2 is in other shapes, the matching sidewall 31 may be designed in the same way, so that the sidewall is matched and attached to the bottom of the ice making box 2. The matching side wall 31 can increase the area of the evaporation pipe 3 attached to the ice making box 2, thereby increasing the transmission efficiency of cold or heat.
As an improvement to this embodiment, as shown in fig. 10, a heat insulating housing 32 for insulating the evaporating pipe 3 may be further disposed below the ice making box 2, and a heat insulating material 33 is filled in the heat insulating housing 32, so as to reduce dissipation of cold or heat, and further improve utilization rate of the cold or heat. The thermal insulation casing 32 can be a foaming box, and the thermal insulation material 33 can be a foaming layer.
As shown in fig. 3 and 7, the housing 1 is further installed with an ice storage basket (not shown), a water drainage through hole is formed at the bottom of the ice storage basket, the ice storage basket is used for receiving ice cubes pulled out by the ice removing structure, and the water drainage through hole formed at the bottom of the ice storage basket can drain water remaining on the ice cubes downwards, so as to ensure that the ice cubes are anhydrous; the overflow groove 23 communicated with the ice making groove 22 also has the function of discharging excess water in the ice making groove 22 outwards, so that the ice blocks are prevented from being adhered due to the fact that the water in the adjacent ice making grooves 22 are communicated with each other.
As shown in fig. 6 and 7, the ice removing structure includes a rotating shaft 4 rotatably mounted on the housing 1, and a driving motor 42 for driving the rotating shaft 4 to rotate, the rotating portion is a poking plate 41 mounted on the rotating shaft 4, and the poking plate 41 is driven by the driving motor 42 to rotate, so that the ice cubes in the ice making box 2 are poked outwards. A plurality of the pulling plates 41 are provided on the rotating shaft 4, and are respectively used for pulling out the ice cubes located in different ice making grooves 22. The ice-removing structure is provided with a poking part which pokes the ice blocks outwards along the arc-shaped bottom surface of the ice-making box 2, so that the ice discharging is easy, and the ice discharging efficiency is improved.
The casing 1 is further provided with a water pipe 5, the water pipe 5 is provided with a diversion hole, and the diversion hole is positioned right above the ice making groove 22 and corresponds to the ice making groove 22 one by one. The water delivery pipe 5 arranged on the shell 1 supplies water to each ice making groove 22 through the guide holes, so that the ice block adhesion phenomenon caused by mutual contact of water in adjacent or multiple ice making grooves 22 can be avoided, the ice making quality is improved, and different fancy ice can be obtained by controlling and preparing through controlling the water amount delivered into each ice making groove 22.
As an improvement, a U-shaped opening groove 43 may be further disposed on the shifting plate 41, an opening direction of the U-shaped opening groove 43 is far away from the rotating shaft 4, so that unfrozen water can be prevented from being shifted out, a load of the driving motor 42 can be reduced, and in addition, when the rotating shaft 4 rotates at a specific position, the U-shaped opening groove 43 is opposite to a flow guide hole of the water conveying pipe 5, water flowing out from the flow guide hole directly passes through the U-shaped opening groove 43 to enter the ice making groove 22, so that water splashing caused by water flow impacting the shifting plate 41 can be avoided.
As shown in fig. 3-5, a diversion trench 11 is disposed on the casing 1, a first installation groove 111 and a second installation groove 112 are disposed on two opposite sidewalls of the diversion trench 11, respectively, and two ends of the evaporation tube 3 are installed on the first installation groove 111 through a first installation structure; both ends of the ice making housing 2 are fixedly installed inside the first and second installation grooves 111 and 112 by a second installation structure.
The evaporation pipe 3 and the ice making box 2 are installed inside the guide groove 11 through the first installation groove 111 and the second installation groove 112 which are arranged on two opposite side walls of the guide groove 11, the evaporation pipe 3 and the ice making box 2 are protected by the guide groove 11 and cannot be damaged by collision, and water flowing down from the evaporation pipe 3 or the ice making box 2 can also directly flow into the guide groove 11 to be collected so as to be conveniently reused.
As shown in fig. 7, the first mounting structure includes an evaporator tube mounting groove 13 opened upward on the bottom surface of the first mounting groove 111 for passing the input end and the output end of the evaporator tube 3. The opening of the evaporating pipe mounting groove 13 arranged on the first mounting groove 111 faces upwards, so that the mounting position is provided for the input end and the output end of the evaporating pipe 3 arranged in the diversion trench 11, and the input end and the output end of the evaporating pipe 3 are convenient to mount along the putting-in type from the top to the bottom.
The second mounting structure includes a first support block 61 detachably and fixedly mounted on the bottom surface of the first mounting groove 111, and a second support block 62 detachably and fixedly mounted on the bottom surface of the second mounting groove 112, and the bottom surfaces of the first and second support blocks 61 and 62 are fixedly connected to opposite ends of the ice making housing 2, respectively. The two ends of the first supporting block 61 are provided with through holes, the through holes are opposite to the through holes, the bottom surface of the first mounting groove 111 is provided with threaded holes, the first supporting block 61 is detachably and fixedly mounted on the bottom surface of the first mounting groove 111 through bolts, and the second supporting block 62 is detachably and fixedly mounted on the bottom surface of the second mounting groove 112 in the same mode. A threaded hole is formed in the middle of the bottom surface of the first support block 61, a through hole is formed in one end of the ice making box 2 opposite to the threaded hole, and a bolt penetrates through the through hole and then is connected with the threaded hole, so that one end of the ice making box 2 is fixedly mounted on the bottom surface of the first support block 61; in the same manner, the installation of the other end of the ice making housing 2 to the second supporting block 62 may be accomplished.
The first support block 61 and the second support block 62 are further provided at top surfaces thereof with a rotation shaft mounting groove 44 for mounting the rotation shaft 4. The first support block 61 and the second support block 62 not only provide the installation position for the ice making box 2 and the rotating shaft 4 at the same time, but also can be respectively detachably and fixedly connected with the first installation groove 111 and the second installation groove 112, so that the assembly, disassembly and replacement after damage are convenient.
The third supporting block 63 is used for closing the first mounting groove 111, and the third supporting block 63 is provided with an inner cavity 65 which is used for accommodating the first supporting block 61 and is fixedly connected with the first supporting block 61; the cavity 65 has an inner wall located outside the first support block 61. The third supporting block 63 is further provided with a first mounting hole 51 for the water inlet end of the water pipe 5 to pass through.
The water pipe conveying device further comprises a fourth supporting block 64 fixedly mounted on the top surface of the second supporting block 62, and a second mounting hole used for accommodating the closed end of the water conveying pipe 5 is formed in the fourth supporting block 64.
The outer wall of the second supporting block 62 facing the outside of the housing 1 is provided with a tapping screw hole for fixing the driving motor 42 by using a tapping screw, opposite to the mounting through hole provided in the driving motor 42; the fourth supporting block 64 is used for closing the second mounting groove 112, and the outer wall of the fourth supporting block 64 facing the outside of the housing 1 is provided with a tapping screw hole for fixing the micro switch 7 by using a tapping screw, opposite to the mounting through holes provided on the micro switch 7 and the micro switch press plate 71. The outer wall of the second supporting block 62 is simultaneously provided with a mounting structure for mounting a driving motor, and the outer wall of the fourth supporting block 64 is simultaneously provided with a mounting structure for mounting a microswitch, so that the compactness of the equipment is improved. The above tapping screw hole and tapping screw may be replaced with a conventional threaded hole and bolt.
The microswitch 7 is linked with the output shaft of the driving motor 42 or the rotating shaft 4, and is used for detecting the rotating position of the rotating shaft 4 and further judging the position of the dial plate 41.
The water tank 12 is arranged in parallel with the diversion trench 11, the bottom surface of the diversion trench 11 is higher than that of the water tank 12, and the diversion trench 11 is communicated with the water tank 12 through a diversion port 14; an ice storage basket is installed at the upper portion of the water tank 12.
Example 2
The embodiment provides a preparation method of fancy ice, which comprises the following steps:
firstly, supplying a certain amount of water to an ice making cavity of the ice making box 2 and then stopping, so that the water storage amount of the ice making cavity is lower than the maximum water capacity amount of the ice making cavity; then, the evaporation tube 3 cools all water in the ice making cavity into white ice; then, water is continuously supplied to the surface of the white ice, and the water exceeding the maximum water capacity of the ice making cavity is guided to the outside of the ice making box 2 through the guide structure; the evaporation tube 3 cools the flowing water supplied to the surface of the white ice into a layer of transparent ice, thereby preparing fancy ice.
In this embodiment, the ice making housing 2 includes a plurality of independent ice making grooves 22, and water is supplied to each ice making groove 22 by using the water conveying pipe 5, and the amount of the supplied water is controlled, so that the fancy ice is prepared inside each ice making groove 22. And the flow guiding structure is an overflow chute 23.
In order to make three-layer fancy ice, when the bottom surface of the transparent ice is lower than the bottom surface of the overflow groove 23, water supply to the ice making cavity or the ice making groove 22 is stopped, and the evaporation pipe 3 cools all water on the surface of the transparent plate into white ice, so that the three-layer fancy ice of white ice-transparent ice-white ice lamination is prepared.
Example 3
The present embodiment provides a method for preparing fancy ice, which is a modification of embodiment 2, and includes the following steps:
firstly, continuously supplying water to an ice making cavity of an ice making box 2, and guiding the water exceeding the maximum water capacity of the ice making cavity to the outside of the ice making box 2 through a guide structure; the evaporating pipe 3 cools the flowing water in the ice making cavity into a layer of transparent ice; finally, the water supply to the ice making cavity is stopped, and the evaporation tube 3 is used to cool the water on the surface of the transparent ice into white ice, thereby preparing the fancy ice.
In this embodiment, the ice making housing 2 includes a plurality of independent ice making grooves 22, and water is supplied to each ice making groove 22 by using the water conveying pipe 5, and the amount of the supplied water is controlled, so that the fancy ice is prepared inside each ice making groove 22. And the flow guiding structure is an overflow chute 23.
Example 4
This example provides an apparatus for making fancy ice, which is a variation on example 1, except that: in this embodiment, the flow guiding structure is a plurality of overflow holes disposed on the ice making box 2 and communicated with the ice making cavity, and the plurality of overflow holes are arranged in the height direction of the ice making box 2, so that the ice making cavity has a first, a second, a third, and a plurality of set water volumes. Therefore, the ice making cavity has a plurality of set water volumes, and fancy ice with more stacking times can be prepared.
The embodiment provides a preparation method of fancy ice, which comprises the following steps:
firstly, supplying a certain amount of water to an ice making cavity of the ice making box 2 and then stopping, and controlling the evaporation pipe 3 to completely cool all water in the ice making cavity into white ice; then, water is continuously supplied to the surface of the white ice, the water exceeding the first set water capacity of the ice making cavity is guided to the outside of the ice making box 2 through the overflow hole, and the evaporation pipe 3 cools the flowing water supplied to the surface of the white ice into a layer of transparent ice; and (4) operating the steps for one or more times, and stopping after any step is finished, thereby preparing the fancy ice. Or,
firstly, controlling to open the evaporation pipe 3 and continuously supplying water to the ice making cavity of the ice making box 2, guiding the water exceeding a first set water capacity outwards to the outside of the ice making box 2 through the overflow hole, and cooling the water in the ice making cavity into a layer of transparent ice by the evaporation pipe 3; and stopping supplying water to the ice making cavity, completely cooling the water on the surface of the transparent ice into white ice by the evaporation tube 3, operating the steps one to more times, and stopping after any step is finished, thereby preparing the fancy ice.
It should be understood that the above examples are only for clarity of illustration and are not intended to limit the embodiments. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. And obvious variations or modifications therefrom are within the scope of the invention.
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1. An apparatus for making fancy ice comprising
The ice-making box (2) is provided with an ice-making cavity;
the evaporation pipe (3) is positioned at the bottom of the ice making box (2) and is used for cooling the water in the ice making cavity into ice;
the method is characterized in that: also comprises
And the flow guide structure is arranged on the ice making box (2) and is used for guiding the water exceeding the set water capacity of the ice making cavity to the outside of the ice making box (2).
2. Apparatus for making fancy ice according to claim 1, wherein: the flow guide structure comprises an overflow groove (23) which is arranged on the ice making box (2) and communicated with the ice making cavity.
3. Device for producing fancy ice according to claim 1 or 2, wherein: the flow guide structure comprises overflow holes which are arranged on the ice making box (2) and communicated with the ice making inner cavity, and a plurality of overflow holes are arranged along the height direction of the ice making inner cavity.
4. Apparatus for making fancy ice according to claim 1, wherein: the ice making box (2) is provided with an arc-shaped bottom surface, a baffle (21) is arranged in the ice making box (2), and the baffle (21) divides the ice making box (2) into a plurality of ice making grooves (22) which are axially distributed along the ice making box (2) and are mutually independent.
5. Device for making fancy ice according to claim 4, wherein: the guide structures are arranged in a plurality and are respectively communicated with the ice making grooves (22) one by one.
6. Apparatus for making fancy ice according to claim 1, wherein: the part of the evaporation pipe (3) contacting or approaching the ice making box (2) is provided with a matching side wall (31) matching and attaching with the outer wall of the ice making box (2).
7. Device for making fancy ice according to claim 4, wherein: the ice-making box also comprises an ice-removing structure used for pulling out the prepared ice blocks from the inside of the ice-making box (2) along the cambered bottom surface; the ice removing structure comprises a rotating shaft (4) rotatably mounted on the machine shell (1), a shifting plate (41) mounted on the rotating shaft (4), and a driving motor (42) for driving the rotating shaft (4) to rotate and further driving the shifting plate (41) to rotate, so that ice blocks in the ice making box (2) are shifted outwards.
8. Device for making fancy ice according to claim 4, wherein: the ice making machine is characterized by further comprising a conveying pipe (5) used for conveying ice making water to the ice making box (2), wherein the conveying pipe (5) is provided with guide holes corresponding to the ice making grooves (22) one to one.
9. A method of making fancy ice, comprising: comprises the following steps of (a) carrying out,
firstly, supplying a certain amount of water to an ice making cavity of an ice making box (2) and then stopping, and controlling an evaporation pipe (3) to completely cool all water in the ice making cavity into white ice; then, water is continuously supplied to the surface of the white ice, the diversion structure outwards diverts the water exceeding the set water capacity to the outside of the ice making box (2), the evaporation pipe (3) cools the water supplied to the surface of the white ice into a layer of transparent ice, the steps are operated for one to multiple times, and the operation is stopped after any step is finished, so that the fancy ice is prepared; or
Firstly, controlling to open the evaporation pipe (3) and continuously supplying water to an ice making inner cavity of the ice making box (2), wherein the water exceeding a set water capacity is guided to the outside of the ice making box (2) through a guide structure, and the evaporation pipe (3) cools the water in the ice making inner cavity into a layer of transparent ice; and stopping supplying water to the ice making cavity, completely cooling the water on the surface of the transparent ice into white ice by the evaporation pipe (3), and operating the steps one to more times until any step is finished, so that the fancy ice is prepared.
10. Method for producing fancy ice according to claim 9, wherein: the ice-making box (2) comprises a plurality of ice-making grooves (22), and water is separately supplied to the ice-making grooves (22) by using a water conveying pipe (5).
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