A high throughput, short batch cycle commercial ice making machine produces commercial
ice which resists melting in convenient sizes for mobile food carts, market produce,
or fish displays. The machine introduces super-cooled water, that is in a liquid
state while exposed to a temperature below freezing, into a batch of pre-formed
hollow molds of one or more horizontally oriented ice forming freezing trays oriented
horizontally. Using vapor compression refrigeration, the machine produces a plurality
of supercooled ice segments in pockets within the freezing tray. The supercooled
ice segments are rapidly subjected to a short, temporary contact with a high heat
source from a sleeve integral with the freezing tray compartments, along a peripheral
bottom surface of the ice segment accommodating freezing tray molds. This temporarily
melts a bottom surface of each ice segment, lubricating it and loosening it. Then
the machine rotates the freezing tray containing the batch of ice segments about
its horizontally oriented axis to a vertically oriented dump position, thereby
dumping the temporarily heated ice segments into the freezing tray. The ice cubes
thus formed may be fresh water, salt water or beverage containing ice cubes.
