Heat exchange – With vehicle feature – Heating and cooling
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-11
2006-04-11
Ciric, Ljiljana (Department: 3753)
Heat exchange
With vehicle feature
Heating and cooling
C165S041000, C165S058000, C165S075000, C165S919000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07025121
ABSTRACT:
A refrigeration/rethermalization food service system includes a food service cart having hot and cold chambers for receiving pre-plated foods. A hot air plenum is provided along a sidewall of the cart in the hot chamber, and a cold air plenum is provided along a sidewall of the cold chamber. To rethermalize foods in the hot chamber, heated air is forced into the hot air plenum from a docking station, and the heated air is evenly distributed from the plenum into the hot chamber. To refrigerate foods in the cold chamber, chilled air is forced into the cold air plenum from the docking station, and the chilled air is evenly distributed from the plenum into the cold chamber. The substantially uniformly distributed convective air currents provide substantially even heating and cooling of foods located in all portions of the hot and cold chambers.
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Crocker Rodger Dale
DeGrow Gary C.
Gordon David Riley
Griggs William Curt
Johnson Natalia V.
Aladdin Temp-Rite, LLC
Ciric Ljiljana
McFadden Jeffrey R.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC
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