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US 8,910,841 B2Granted
Method and portable apparatus for transporting, displaying and serving food
OwnerThomas A. Genunginventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus providing self-service of food items, such as snacks, including a portable food displaying and serving apparatus capable of transforming a vehicle, such as a golf cart, into a traveling food purveying apparatus permitting the selection of food items for consumption from an array of displayed food items by possible consumers.
Claims19
A portable food display and serving apparatus, comprising
- a base forming an interior space with an open top,
- a removable substantially flat panel, including a plurality of openings within the panel for carrying a plurality of food containers adjacent the open top of the base,
- means within the interior space of the base for horizontally supporting the removable substantially flat panel within the interior space of the base, and
- a plurality of open-top food containers removably supported and horizontally carried by the removable substantially flat panel within the plurality of openings of the panel for carrying and displaying adjacent the open top of the base a plurality of different food items for selection by a consumer.
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A portable food display and serving apparatus, comprising
- a generally rectangular base adapted to be supported in a generally horizontal position, said generally rectangular base having four sidewalls extending generally vertically adjacent the periphery of the base,
- a generally rectangular panel having a plurality of openings therein to carry open top food containers, said panel being sized to be carried within the four side walls on support means within the four side walls and located for displaying and serving of food from the open top containers carried by the generally rectangular panel,
- a flexible cover, capable of being rolled into a cylindrical shape, carried by and within one of the four sidewalls, and of being unrolled to extend to and be fastened to the opposing sidewall over the generally rectangular panel carried by the four sidewalls of the generally rectangular base.
A portable food display and serving apparatus, comprising
- a base including a generally circumferential wall,
- a removable flat panel including one or more openings therein for carrying within the base one or more food containers, said base including within the generally circumferential wall one or more means for removably supporting said removable flat panel in a horizontal position,
- one or more food containers sized to be removably supported and carried within said one or more openings by said removable panel for displaying and serving food carried by said plurality of food containers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.