Patent ID: 6116154
Filing Date: 2000-09-12
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
A system for manually manipulating a food pan for containing food products in a food warming apparatus having an open front end communicating with an interior warming compartment, comprising:a wire form pan holder for cradling the food pan and moving the pan into and out of the interior warming compartment through the open front end of the food warming apparatus;a manually graspable handle projecting forwardly of said wire form pan holder;a wire form grate in the warming compartment for guiding the wire form pan holder into and out of the compartment;first complementary interengaging stop limit means between the wire form grate and the wire form pan holder for defining an inner position of the pan holder and, therefore, the pan within the warming compartment; andsecond complementary interengaging stop limit means between the wire form grate and the wire form pan holder for defining an outer position of the pan holder and, therefore, the pan outside the warming compartment.