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Hot countertop self-service food station

  • US 5,203,255 A
  • Filed: 04/25/1991
  • Issued: 04/20/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A hot food countertop self-service display station comprising:

  • a countertop display oven including an oven body defining a generally rectangular heated oven compartment having a reclosable, side-opening, hinged front door panel for covering a generally rectangular front opening and an upright, vertical elongate forced air flow control tube disposed in a corner location in said oven compartment opposite said front door panel, said flow control tube including means for directing air flow in said oven compartment, means for supplying a flow of heated forced air into said flow control tube and throughout said oven compartment, means for thermostatically controlling air temperature connected to said hot air supply for maintaining the temperature of said oven compartment at a generally constant range of temperatures and rack means adapted to be placed in said oven compartment and effective to sub-divide said compartment into a gravity feed, self-facing array of columns and rows of product packages disposed at said front opening, said rack means including stop means adjacent said front opening for each package position in said array and positioned to prevent packages placed in said rack from sliding forwardly out of said array of columns and rows at said front opening, each said stop means being located in such manner that heated rack surfaces are recessed from said front opening, away from the center of each package presented in the array, thereby permitting a person to grab a package in the center and remove the package from a column or row of said array at the front opening generally without being burned.

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