Ice planer

• US 6,450,426 B1
• Filed: 01/18/2001
• Issued: 09/17/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lee, Ming-Tsung
• Original Assignee: Lee, Ming-Tsung
• Inventors: Lee, Ming-Tsung
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenbaum, Mark
• Application Number:
  US09/761,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20020092942A1
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• Field of Search: 241/92, 241/285.1, 241/37.5, 241/DIG.17
• US Class Current: 241/37.5
• CPC Class Codes: F25C 5/12 Ice-shaving machines
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 241/17 Ice crushers

Abstract

An ice planer includes a base, a fix frame, a cylinder, a body, a safety hook, a transmit device and a push cap. When the body is fitted with the cylinder, the safety hook rests against the inner wall of the cylinder and its upper end separate from the touch switch, and a planing plate under the body presses down ice blocks in the cylinder and pushes up the transmit shaft of the transmit device, with the touch switch moved up. Then the push cap is pressed to touch the touch switch to turn on the transmit device to operate the ice planer. Thus, the ice planer has three separate safety measures to let its use very safe, and in addition, the transmit device is contained in the body, not to get wet to increase its service life, with the components easily assembled and disassembled.

Claims

1. An ice planer comprising:

a base having a recess on an upper surface and a elongate position groove formed respectively at two opposite sides of said recess;

a fix frame shaped as an inverted U, screwed on said base, having an opening in a horizontal wall and two engage notches formed in two opposite sides of said opening;

a cylinder combined on said fix frame, able to contain ice blocks to be planed having a planing blade and a drop hole and a combine member protruding down in its bottom and two opposite hooks formed at two opposite sides of said combine member, said combine member engaging said opening of said fix frame, and said two opposite hooks engaging said two engage notches of said opening of said fix frame;

a body fitting with said cylinder, having an chamber in its interior, an annular empty fitting groove formed between an annular wall of said chamber and an outer wall, a transmit shaft hole bored in a proper location of a bottom, a hook base provided vertically along said annular wall of said chamber, an engage groove formed at a connect place of said hook base and said annular wall of said chamber;

a safety hook combined in said hook base of said body, having a hook in a bottom to hook a hook groove of said hook base and able to rest against an inner wall of said annular empty fitting groove of said body, and an elastic member to let said safety hook move leftward and rightward;

a transmit device contained in said body, consisting of a motor, a touch switch, a support push plate, and a motor base on which said motor, said touch switch and said support push plate are deposited, a transmit shaft protruding through said body and combined with said planing plate possible to be move up and down elastically, said touch switch having a touch strip facing to an upper end of said safety hook, and a gear unit;

a push cap closed on said body, having a cap base and an upper cap, said upper cap possible to be elastically pushed down, also having a push member combined at one side to face, touch and move said touch strip of said transmit device;

said hooks under said safety hook in said body resting against an inner wall of said cylinder to let an upper end separate from said touch switch when said body is fitted with said cylinder, said planing plate pressing ice blocks placed in said cylinder, said transmit shaft of said transmit device pushing said touch switch up at the same time, said upper cap of said push cap pushed down to let said push member under said push cap touch and push said touch switch to turn on said ice planer, said ice planer being very safe to use owing to three separate safety control measures, said transmit device contained in said body and protected from getting wet, prolonging service life of said ice planer, said components easy to assemble and disassemble for washing.

2. The ice planer as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cylinder has plural vertical projecting strips spaced apart equidistantly on an outer surface, and an annular insert groove of said body has plural vertical projecting strips spaced apart equidistantly on an inner wall to rest against said vertical strips of said cylinder so that said body may not rotate leftward or rightward after fitted with said cylinder.

3. The ice planer as claimed in claim 1, wherein said body has two opposite combine holes in an upper end of said annular fitting groove, and said cap base of said push cap has two threaded holes to align to and be screwed together with said two combine holes of said body to secure said cap base with said body.

4. The ice planer as claimed in claim 1, wherein said chamber in said body has plural insert grooves and plural posts in proper locations for auxiliary shafts of said transmit device to fit in and fix the position of said body and screw said motor base with said body.

5. The ice planer as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hook base of said body has stop grooves in side walls and engage apertures in intermediate portions for said safety hook to fit in and be secured stably therein.