Ice Making & Bagging Vending Machine

U.S. Patent : # 6,112,539 Inventor: Francisco J. Colberg

As attorney for the inventor of the innovative Ice Making & Bagging Vending Machine we are currently seeking manufacturing companies to license, purchase patent rights or enter into a royalty agreement for this timely invention.

The Ice Making and Bagging Vending Machine makes, bags, and delivers a sealed bag of ice to the consumer. The user deposits a specified amount of money into the vending machine and receives a completely sealed bag of ice. This provides sanitary dispensing conditions by packaging the ice product within a sealed container, elminating all handling of the product except by the consumer.


Objects of the present invention:

  • to provide an ice dispensing machine having on site production capability

  • to provide an apparatus for manufacturing ice, maintaining a reservoir of despensible ice and means for dispensing said ice

  • to provide an ice dispensing machine having heat sealing means for forming plastic bags from a roll of tubular plastic material

  • to provide a machine having vacuum means for manipulating a roll of plastic material

  • to provide an ice dispensing machine which will increase profit margins for retailers by manufacturing ice at the point of sale

  • to provide a means of dispensing ice in a sanitary fashion


Now for the first time this unique product is available for millions of potential users. The low manufacturing cost is of major importance.

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