Patent ID: 6625991
Filing Date: 2003-09-30
Classification: F25B,F25D

Abstract:
A food chiller comprising:a housing including a horizontal base wall and upwardly extending enclosing side walls; a Peltier effect thermoelectric device mounted in the base wall and thermally connected to a cold sink on an outer face of the base wall and a hot sink within the housing on an inner face of the base wall; a food container suspended from the housing and having a wall spaced from and generally parallel to said housing base wall, said container wall and said base wall defining therebetween a downwardly facing duct enclosing the cold sink; said container wall including downwardly directed air inlet openings into the container and upwardly directed air outlet openings from the container; a fan mounted at one end of said duct directly between said cold sink and one of said air inlet openings and air outlet openings; the other of said air inlet openings and air outlet openings defining the other end of said duct; and an ambient air flow path through the housing and across the hot sink defined by ambient inlet and outlet slots in the enclosing side walls.