Product warming apparatus
AssigneeThermodyne Food Service Products, Inc.
InventorsVincent P. Tippmann, SR., Joseph R. Tippmann
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Abstract
A product warming apparatus with at least one product holding container having a bottom surface. An enclosure includes at least one opening configured to receive the product holding container. A heat radiating plate is provided in thermal communication with and configured to receive heat from a heating element. The heat radiating plate includes a top surface disposed adjacent the bottom surface of the product holding container with the top surface of the heat radiating plate being spaced apart from the bottom surface of the product holding container to define a gap therebetween. A thermostatic controller is in thermal communication with the heat radiating plate for controlling a flow of heat to the heat radiating plate.
Claims20
A product or food warming apparatus, comprising:
- at least one product or food holding container having a bottom surface;
- an enclosure having at least one opening configured to receive the product or food holding container;
- a heat radiating plate, said plate being in thermal communication with and configured to receive heat from an electric heating element, and said heat radiating plate having a top surface disposed adjacent the bottom surface of the product or food holding container, said top surface of the heat radiating plate being spaced apart from the bottom surface of the container to define a gap therebetween;
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- a thermostatic controller in thermal communication with the heat radiating plate for controlling a flow of electric current to the electric heating element.
A product warming apparatus, comprising:
- at least one product holding container having a bottom surface;
- an enclosure having at least one opening configured to receive the product holding container;
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- a heat radiating plate, said plate being in thermal communication with and configured to receive heat from a heating element;
- wherein said heat radiating plate includes a top surface disposed adjacent to the bottom surface of the product holding container, said top surface of the heat radiating plate being spaced apart from the bottom surface of the container to define a gap therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.