Patent ID: 8227727

Claim:
A meal tray dispensing trolley enabling two adjacent coplanar trays each having a hot part configured to reheat food and a cold part configured to cool food, each part being positioned on each loading level, said trolley comprising: a parallelepipedic enclosure having two open faces opposing one another each open face being equipped with a door, said faces being connected by two side panels, hot plates superposed in a central zone of the enclosure, acting as support for the hot parts of the meal trays, plate supports arranged along the side panels of the enclosure, first and second slides arranged along the side panels of the enclosure for guiding and securing the cold parts of the trays, a bodywork protecting said enclosure, wherein the bodywork comprises: openings made in the side panels of the enclosure to house add-on elements added from the outside of the side panels and protruding inside the side panels by insertion in said openings, said add-on elements constituting the plate supports and the first and second slides, support means arranged adjacent to each open face to be protruding outside the panels of the enclosure, and rigid panels forming the bodywork, fixed onto the support means determining a gap with respect to the enclosure to receive a thermal insulator.