Patent ID: 6644441
Filing Date: 2003-11-11
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
A food storage and distribution system for airplanes comprising:a track being adapted to securely attach to and extend along a ceiling of an airplane above an aisle; a cabinet support assembly being movably suspended from said track; a cabinet assembly including a cabinet being attached to said cabinet support assembly; a drive and control assembly being attached to said cabinet support assembly and to said cabinet assembly for moving said cabinet up and down and along said track either manually or electronically; wherein said track includes an elongate channel member having a main wall and longitudinal end portions which are angled relative to said main wall and which are disposed below said main wall; and wherein said cabinet support assembly includes a first housing member having a top and side walls and an open bottom, and also includes first bracket members being securely attached to an exterior of said top wall, and further includes rollers being mounted to said bracket members and being movably disposed upon said longitudinal end portions of said elongate channel member, and also includes second bracket members being securely attached to an interior of said top wall of said first housing member, and further includes a second housing member having side and bottom walls and an open top with said first housing member being telescopingly received in said second housing member through said open top thereof, and also includes third bracket members being securely attached to interiors of said bottom wall of said second housing member, and further includes hydraulic cylinders being securely attached to said second bracket members in said first housing member, and also includes piston members being movably disposed in and from said hydraulic cylinders and being attached to said third bracket members for raising and lowering said second housing member relative to said first housing member.