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Food rethermalizing and satelliting tray
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Inventors: DeGrow, Gary C.; Wyatt, W. Burk; Smith, Milton E.; Wimpee, Julia T.;
Assignee: Aladdin Synergetics, Inc. (Nashville, TN)
Primary Examiner: Reynolds; Bruce A.
Assistant Examiner: Jeffery; John A.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Banner, Birch, McKie & Beckett
A food service rethermalization process including a tray having first and second receiving hot dish receiving areas, at least one cold dish receiving area and an end wing area for holding eating utensils, napkins and the like. First and second selector or actuator knobs are mounted in the tray adjacent to the first and second hot dish receiving areas, respectively, and can be separately turned to on or off positions. When the tray is inserted in a rethermalization cart and the first and second heating pods of the cart are at the first and second areas respectively, the heating pods whose associated knobs are in the "on" position are switched on and the food at the associated areas thereby heated in a programmed manner. After the knobs have been turned as needed and before the tray is inserted in the cart, an over-all insulated cover is secured to and on top of the tray. The cover thermally separates and covers the different areas including the wing area. It thereby covers, insulates and protects each of the areas allowing the loaded tray to be safely transported outdoors to a remote building or other location. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION A need has arisen though for a new type of rethermalization system.
This system would include at least two tray locations for hot food dishes, at least one location for securely retaining a cold food dish, and a wing area for retaining silverware, napkins and the like.
This system should have the flexibility, however, to individually control the heating of the hot food dishes, that is, to allow one or both of the hot food dishes to not be heated during the rethermalization process, as they might support a cold entree or a cold soup for example.
The system should be simple enough to use so that all service people can easily learn to use it.
They should be able to readily tell whether the proper food areas were heated.
This system should further be adapted to satelliting operations where the rethermalized trays must be transported to remote locations while protecting the contents of the tray from contamination from wind, dust and the like and while keeping the foods for as long a time as possible in their chilled or reheated conditions.
The tray/cover unit should be able to stack easily and securely one on top of the other, and the dishes and other contents of the unit should be secured therein in position so to not slide freely about during transport.
Directed to achieving these objects, an improved rethermalization and satelliting system and tray therefor are herein provided.
The tray is formed of plastic with a large and a smaller hole or opening therethrough.
The holes are round and a lip surrounds them to support a large or entree hot food dish in the first hole and a smaller hot food or soup dish in the second hole.
Three recessed-in support areas are provided also on the top surface of the tray for retaining therein three cold food dishes.
A tray recessed area also is positioned above the entree opening and between two of the cold food areas for placement of cartons of drinks and the like.
A recessed wing area extends the length of the right end of the tray for silverware, napkins and the like
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