Foods and beverages: apparatus – Non-cooking heat treatment of food
Patent
1998-05-15
1999-06-08
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Non-cooking heat treatment of food
99340, 99448, 99451, 99470, 62258, 62453, 165 64, 165919, 219386, 219620, 219622, A47J 3902, A47B 3102, H05B 508, H05B 602
Patent
active
059102101
ABSTRACT:
Meals are placed on individual trays in an institutional kitchen. The individual trays have a first part carrying the meal portion intended to be eaten hot and covered with a thermally insulative cloche and a second part carrying the meal portion intended to be eaten cold. The individual trays are transported in a thermally insulated enclosure to the places where the meals are to be eaten, where they are distributed into local individual units having a thermally insulated enclosure. Each individual unit includes retractable contact terminals operated by an electromagnet and contacting external terminals on the cloche which are in turn electrically connected to an electrical heating element of the cloche. Accordingly, by supplying power to the contact terminals, the meal portions intended to be eaten hot and placed under the cloches are selectively heated. The device is relatively inexpensive and facilitates meal handlings in compliance with hygiene conditions.
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Ferbus Jean-Francois
Violi Jean-Charles
Violi Raymond
Simone Timothy F.
Societe Cooperative de Production Bourgeois
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