Christopher A Little

US Patent:

20190093933, Mar 28, 2019

Filed:

Nov 28, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/202919

Inventors:

- Shelburne VT, US
Christopher Terence Little - Moretown VT, US

International Classification:

F25C 1/25
F25C 1/18
F25C 1/22

Abstract:

Devices for making shaped clear ice that each include an insulated vessel and a multipart ice mold engageable into a vessel cavity of the insulated vessel. In some embodiments, the ice mold includes mold cavity having a high point. Such an ice mold also includes an upper end wall having a first hole that allows for fluid communication through the upper end wall to the high point of the mold cavity. The ice mold further includes a lower end wall that has a second hole and, when the ice mold is engaged with the vessel cavity, that is spaced from a bottom of the vessel cavity so as to define a hollow space in the vessel cavity. The second hole allows for fluid communication between the mold cavity and the hollow space when the ice mold is engaged with the vessel cavity.

US Patent:

20180087817, Mar 29, 2018

Filed:

Oct 9, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/727890

Inventors:

- Shelburne VT, US
Christopher Terence Little - Moretown VT, US

International Classification:

F25C 1/22

Abstract:

A clear-ice-making device that includes an insulated vessel and an ice mold that is engageable with a cavity of the insulated vessel in a manner that allows a user to rotate the ice mold about a central rotational axis to aid in removing the ice mold from the insulated vessel. In one embodiment, the ice mold includes one or more mold cavities that, when the ice mold is engaged with the insulated vessel, each fluidly communicate with a void beneath the ice mold and with an overfill region above that mold cavity. A method of making clear-ice shapes using a device having an ice mold rotatable within an insulated vessel is also disclosed, as is a method of instructing a user on how to perform the method of making clear-ice shapes.