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Food warming cabinet

  • US 4,233,495 A
  • Filed: 12/15/1978
  • Issued: 11/11/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A food warming cabinet comprising:

  • an upwardly opening well having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls and a bottom,a housing connected to said well and surrounding the well on the sides, ends and bottom thereof and being spaced from the well so as to form a substantially enclosed air chamber immediately adjacent the side and end walls and the bottom of said well,a plurality of inlet louvers in one of said pair of walls and a plurality of outlet louvers in the other of said pair of walls providing communication between said air chamber and the interior of said well,heating element means within said air chamber positioned beneath said well bottom so as to radiate heat upwardly to said well bottom,a thermally conductive baffle plate positioned between said heating element means and said well bottom, anda pair of blower means located at opposite ends of said air chamber for drawing air from the interior of said well through said outlet louvers and blowing the air across said heating element means in respective streams inpinging on each other in said air chamber beneath said well bottom, and causing the air heated by the heating element means to flow through the portion of the air chamber laterally adjacent said well and through said inlet louvers into the interior of said well.

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