Patent ID: 8117961

Claim:
An apparatus for thawing frozen food items, comprising: an enclosure having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a side wall extending between the top and bottom walls and defining a thawing chamber, wherein one of the top wall, bottom wall, or side wall includes an access opening to the thawing chamber; a first receptacle inside the thawing chamber and configured to hold frozen food items; a first showerhead adapted to discharge a shower of water onto frozen food items held by the first receptacle in the thawing chamber; a closure associated with the enclosure and movable between opened and closed positions, the thawing chamber being accessible through the access opening when the closure is in the opened position, and the closure covering the access opening when the closure is in the closed position; a rear wall extending between the top and bottom walls; a chamber section defined by the top, bottom and rear walls; a pair of end caps defining in combination the side wall and coupled to the chamber section to define the enclosure; a base underlying the enclosure and spaced from the bottom wall; and a spaced-apart pair of support arms associated with the base, each of the end caps being supported on a corresponding one of the support arms when the enclosure is coupled to the base.