Ice bin lighting

Abstract

A first embodiment of this new invention is a portable free standing after market lighting fixture for installation into ice bins to illuminate the stored ice therein. The super bright solid state light emitting diodes, (LEDs), emit colored illumination that is reflected by all of the random reflecting and refracting surfaces of the stored ice pieces in the bin. The super bright LEDs provide abundant colored light with little heat to dissipate, therefore loss of ice due to fixture heat is negligible. A second embodiment of this invention relates to the installation of LEDs into original equipment manufacturing of ice bins. Colored illumination of ice in an ice bin creates a very pleasing effect appreciated by most viewers.

1 . A portable free standing lighting fixture designed to stand within the ice storage area of an ice bin and to illuminate the inside of an ice bin with colored light; 
 comprising:    a means to generate colored light;    a means to supply electrical power to the colored light generation;    a means to adjust the height and orientation of the colored light generation within the ice bin storage area;    a means to assure that the portable fixture remains in a freestanding and upright position.    
   
   
       2 . Installation of super bright colored LEDs between the double walls of an ice bin during manufacturing of the ice bin, so that colored illumination from the LEDs illuminates the ice storage area of the bin, either directly through openings in the inner wall of the ice bin, or through one or more transparent or opaque water proof windows installed into an inner wall of the ice bin.