Energy Saving Food Display Cabinet
AssigneeThe Alan Nuttall Partnership Limited
InventorsAlan Nuttall, Michael James Steele
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Abstract
A food display cabinet having a plurality of food display zones, wherein each food display zone including a heat exchange element and is configurable to be held at the same or different temperatures, the food display cabinet having a control logic to control the temperature of each of the food display zones, the control logic configured to: receive an indicia of an item to be placed in a first food display zone, and the time in which the item is placed in the zone; identify a temperature and power profile associated with the item; vary the temperature of the first food display zone, using the heat exchange element, so that the first food display zone is at the identified temperature at the time the item is placed in the first food display zone.
Claims17
A food display cabinet having a plurality of food display zones, wherein each food display zone includes a temperature regulating device and is configurable to be held at the same or different temperatures, the food display cabinet having a controller to control the temperature of each of the food display zones,
- the controller configured to:
- receive indicia of an item to be placed in a first food display zone;
- identify a time the item is to be placed in a first food display zone;
- identify a temperature profile associated with the item;
- vary the temperature of the first food display zone, using the temperature regulating device, so that the first food display zone is at the identified temperature for the item at the time the item is placed in the first food display zone.
A method of operating a food display cabinet having a plurality of food display zones, wherein each food display zone includes a temperature regulating device and is configurable to be held at the same or different temperatures, the food display cabinet having a controller to control the temperature of each of the food display zones,
- the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving indicia of an item to be placed in a first food display zone;
- identifying, based on the received indicia, a time the item is to be placed in a first food display zone;
- identifying, based on the received indicia, a temperature profile associated with the item;
- varying the temperature of the first food display zone, using the temperature regulating device, so that the first food display zone is at the identified temperature for the item at the time the item is placed in the first food display zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.