Patent ID: 6114659
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: A47F

Abstract:
A food-warming device for maintaining food products warm, said device comprising:a food product bin having a bottom portion with a surface for receiving food products to be warmed, said bottom portion having first and second opposed edges and third and fourth opposed edges, first and second end walls disposed at said first and second opposite edges of said bottom portion, the regions above said bottom portion and along said third and fourth opposite edges between said first and second walls being substantially open to ambient atmosphere;a duct system arranged in said bottom portion and in said first and second end walls, said system including an air delivery port in said first wall and an air intake port in said second wall, wherein said air delivery port and said air intake port oppose each other;means for circulating air through said duct system, out said air delivery port and in said air intake port to form a stream of circulating air over said surface and between said surface and said region;means for heating said surface and said circulating air; andair directing means for directing said stream of circulating heated air to contact said food products, whereby said food products are warmed from below by said heated surface and by contact with said circulating stream of heated air.