Ice shaver apparatus
First Claim
1. An improvement in ice shaving apparatus of the type including (a) an ice receiving chamber having a cylindrical, upstanding sidewall and a substantially flat floor, (b) an elongate opening in said floor, (c) an elongate blade having a knife edge projecting through said opening into said chamber, (d) a removable cover for said chamber and (e) means for moving ice placed in said chamber against said knife edge to cut shavings from said ice, said improvement comprisingan elongate, blunt, blade guard positioned adjacent to said blade, said blade guard being movably mounted beneath said opening in said floor of said chamber for movement from a recessed position in which a leading edge of said blade guard is recessed beneath the knife edge of said blade to an extending position in which the leading edge extends through said opening in said floor of said chamber to project into said chamber at least to the same distance as said knife edge of said blade projects into said chamber and to thereby provide a guard for said knife edge,means for biasing said blade guard to its extending position;
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Abstract
Improvements are disclosed for ice shaving apparatus of the type including (a) an ice receiving chamber having a cylindrical, upstanding sidewall and a substantially flat floor, (b) an elongate opening in the floor, (c) an elongate blade having a knife edge projecting through the opening into the chamber, (d) a removable cover for the chamber and (e) means for moving ice placed in the chamber against the knife edge to cut shavings from the ice. The improvements comprise an elongate, blunt, blade guard which is positioned adjacent to the blade and is movably mounted for movement from a recessed position in which a leading edge of the blade guard is recessed beneath the knife edge of the blade to an extending position in which the leading edge projects at least to the knife edge of the blade to provide a guard for the knife edge. Additional improvements include an ice press which does not have spikes or sharp projections extending therefrom and an outer chamber surrounding a rotating inner ice chamber, with the outer chamber having at least one window therein and with the inner chamber having designs placed thereon which are visible through the window in the outer chamber.
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14 Claims
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1. An improvement in ice shaving apparatus of the type including (a) an ice receiving chamber having a cylindrical, upstanding sidewall and a substantially flat floor, (b) an elongate opening in said floor, (c) an elongate blade having a knife edge projecting through said opening into said chamber, (d) a removable cover for said chamber and (e) means for moving ice placed in said chamber against said knife edge to cut shavings from said ice, said improvement comprising
an elongate, blunt, blade guard positioned adjacent to said blade, said blade guard being movably mounted beneath said opening in said floor of said chamber for movement from a recessed position in which a leading edge of said blade guard is recessed beneath the knife edge of said blade to an extending position in which the leading edge extends through said opening in said floor of said chamber to project into said chamber at least to the same distance as said knife edge of said blade projects into said chamber and to thereby provide a guard for said knife edge, means for biasing said blade guard to its extending position; - and
means for depressing said blade guard to its recessed position when said cover is positioned on said ice containing chamber. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An improvement in an ice shaving apparatus of the type including (a) an ice receiving chamber having a cylindrical, upstanding sidewall and a substantially flat floor, (b) an elongate opening in said floor, (c) an elongate blade having a knife edge projecting through said opening into said chamber, (d) a removable cover for said chamber and (e) means for moving ice placed in said chamber against said knife edge to cut shavings from said ice, said improvement comprising
a substantially flat, circular dasher is received in the ice receiving chamber with a shaft extending from the dasher through the cover; -
a crank handle is attached to the extending end of said shaft for turning said dasher; and an elongate, raised, blunt slat is attached to and extends across the face of said circular dasher, wherein the blunt slat and the circular dasher engage ice in said ice receiving chamber and move the ice against said knife edge to cut shavings from said ice. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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