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Heated food service system

Details

Inventors: Wyatt, William B.;
Assignee: Aladdin Industries, Incorporated (Chicago, IL)
Primary Examiner: Mayewsky; Volodymyr Y.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm:

A food service system for institutional or other use is provided by a stack of insulated trays and a cart. In one embodiment the cart includes a heating and/or cooling source with an outlet and a return. The trays are provided with openings to permit the passage of heated or cooled air from the outlet through the stack to the return. In another embodiment the trays and cart are combined with a refrigeration unit and a heating unit to permit simultaneous heating and cooling of food portions held in the trays.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The foregoing and other objects of the invention are achieved in one embodiment thereof by the provision of a plurality of compartmented trays stacked one on top of the other and on the top of a base structure provided with a heated or cooled air source and return.
The trays once stacked provide vertical columns of compartments each with apertures so as to permit the forced circulation of heated or cooled air upward through the stack and downward to the return.

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