Ice cube tray

Claim 1

An ice cube tray adapted for stacking with identical trays in a manner preventing freeze bonding of the stacked trays, comprising a tray body portion including plural ice cube compartments of a common depth, said body portion having an upper marginal flange defining the perimeter of the tray and the flange being provided near the four corners of the tray with stacking leg locator notches, depending corner stacking legs on the tray projecting below the bottoms of the ice cube compartments and adapted when trays are stacked to engage in said locator notches of underlying trays, and a lid for the tray hinged thereto at one side of the tray and substantially covering the tops of all said compartments when the lid is closed against the top of said marginal flange, the lid having four corner stacking leg clearance notches and the longitudinal edges of such notches guiding said legs when trays are stacked and preventing lateral displacement of the legs from the locator notches, the lid when closed serving to retain ice cubes in an inverted tray until it is desired to open the lid and release the cubes over a storage receptacle, and said legs maintaining the bottoms of cube compartments in stacked trays spaced from the tops of closed lids of other trays to prevent the freezing together of stacked trays.