Device for comminuting small ice bodies
First Claim
1. A device for comminuting small ice bodies of a predetermined size, comprising a housing having four walls and being open at the top and the bottom, a rotatable shaft horizontally mounted extending between two opposite of the four side walls, a plurality of metal disks forming beater knives fixedly connected on the shaft so as to rotate therewith, a plurality of stationary counterknives attached to the housing and extending between the disks, the spacing between the disks and the beater knives corresponding to the desired degree of comminution of the ice bodies, wherein groups of adjacent disks define segment-like recesses such that chambers for receiving an ice body each are formed by the recesses, wherein the size of each chamber corresponds to the size of an ice body.
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Abstract
A device for comminuting small ice bodies includes a housing without top and bottom walls in which a horizontally extending shaft is rotatably mounted. Disks forming beater knives are mounted on the shaft and counterknives in the form of cross-shaped breaking members are attached to the housing. Groups of adjacent disks define chambers in such a way that each chamber receives exactly one ice body. The chambers are arranged distributed over the circumference of the disks and along the length of the shaft in such a way that only a single ice body is comminuted at a given time. This reduces the power required for driving the shaft to a minimum.
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- 1. A device for comminuting small ice bodies of a predetermined size, comprising a housing having four walls and being open at the top and the bottom, a rotatable shaft horizontally mounted extending between two opposite of the four side walls, a plurality of metal disks forming beater knives fixedly connected on the shaft so as to rotate therewith, a plurality of stationary counterknives attached to the housing and extending between the disks, the spacing between the disks and the beater knives corresponding to the desired degree of comminution of the ice bodies, wherein groups of adjacent disks define segment-like recesses such that chambers for receiving an ice body each are formed by the recesses, wherein the size of each chamber corresponds to the size of an ice body.
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