Food warming vessel for cafeterias, restaurants and the like

Details Food warming vessel for cafeterias, restaurants and the like Food warming vessel for cafeterias, restaurants and the like

1991-04-29

1993-04-20

Hornsby, Harvey C.

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Non-cooking heat treatment of food

99403, 392441, 392447, 219437, 219523, 219433, 126 33, 126377, 126369, F24B 900

Patent

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052032574

ABSTRACT:
A food warmer is provided which includes a food containment vessel or pan having side and bottom walls and a mouth at the top opening upwardly. A hollow well or sump vessel is provided around the food containment vessel. The sump vessel has bottom and side walls that enclose the sides and bottom of the food containment vessel, and is adapted to hold liquid, specifically water, as a heat transfer medium. An electric heating element is provided in the sump vessel between the walls of the sump vessel and the containment vessel for heating the food when energized. The sump vessel is preferably spaced from the food containment vessel to define a chamber between them. The electric heating element is positioned in the chamber, preferably at a location spaced apart from the food containment vessel to heat the food containment vessel by means of radiant and convection heating and by conduction when the sump vessel is filled with water. In a preferred form, the sump vessel has an indentation in one side wall so that the bottom wall has two portions at different elevations, including an elevated bottom wall portion and a relatively deep bottom wall portion which defines the bottom of a lowered sump chamber that can be used for containing water as a heat transfer medium.

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