abstract:An ice maker, ice generator, or ice machine may refer to either a consumer device for making ice, found inside a home freezer; a stand-alone appliance for making ice, or an industrial machine for making ice on a large scale. The term "ice machine" usually refers to the stand-alone appliance.
But he is also right in seeing that the old way of moving white goods, in which a floorwalker had to explain every icemaker and vegetable drawer, was too labor-intensive to survive.