The Development History Of Block Ice Machine

The development history of block ice machine

Before the invention of block ice machines, without refrigeration technology, people in ancient times wanted to store food in their own underground cellars in winter, and moved pieces of ice into the cellar in the frozen river, and then put them into the cellar. The food to be preserved is placed in an ice cellar to achieve the purpose of keeping food fresh. However, there is more snow in the north, and the subtropical regions in the south do not see ice and snow 365 days a year. It is conceivable that it was difficult to preserve food for a longer time in the south at that time.

The inventor of the block ice machine is Dr. John Gorey of the United States. Dr. John Gorey was a doctor, scientist, inventor, and humane man who demonstrated the ice machine to the world in 1851 and was awarded the designation for the ice machine, although Dr. Gorey never put the ice machine Applied commercially, he is still considered the father of refrigeration. Among other things, he invented the air cooling system for hospitals in Florida. But Dr. Gorey was not the only inventor of the ice machine. Downing Alexander in 1853 and James Harrison of Australia in 1855 were also inventors of the ice machine. Zhuanli of technology. Thaddeus-Lowe invented the first commercial ice machine and used it in commerce in 1866, which was the first ice machine used in commercial production.

The following briefly describes the development of refrigeration technology in four stages:

1. Household refrigeration

Ice-making technology was invented in the middle of the 19th century. After that, after technical development and improvement by different people in different countries, household refrigerators began to appear and replace the old-fashioned ice boxes, but there was no cold room in the early household refrigerators. Until the 1920s, household refrigerators began to be widely used in the West, and freezers and ice cube trays were gradually added to new refrigerators, allowing people to make ice cubes at home.

2. Make ice in the refrigerator

The Servel Corporation first introduced a refrigerator with a built-in ice maker in 1953, and the technology gradually evolved from manually filling the water hooks with water, to connecting the house's mains water line to the ice maker to make ice automatically. By the late 1960s, refrigerators with built-in ice makers were commonplace.

3. Indoor refrigerator making ice

The indoor refrigerator released by Polaris in 1965 can have its own water dispenser, so that ice and water can be automatically distributed, without manual switching equipment for distribution. By 1985, ice cube makers had improved the storage in freezers to hold cubes weighing up to 12 pounds.

4. Portable ice maker

Now, people buy free-standing ice machines and bar-top ice machines on the market, and it takes at least 10 minutes to produce small ice cubes. Of course, this is fully automatic ice production without manual operation.