Aladdin Synergetics, Inc.

Aladdin Temp-Rite LLC

Gary C DeGrow

W Burk Wyatt

Julia T Wimpee

Kevin B Cundiff

Jonathan H Mueller

Rodger D Crocker

Leonard L Mitchum, Jr

David Riley Gordon

Robert A McCoy

Roger W Pepper

Royce A Payton

Michael P Allen

Lara Lee Whitehead

William Curt Griggs

Milton E Smith

Natalia V Johnson

A refrigeration/rethermalization food service system includes a food service cart having hot and cold chambers for receiving pre-plated foods. A hot air plenum is provided along a sidewall of the cart in the hot chamber, and a cold air plenum is provided along a sidewall of the cold chamber. To rethermalize foods in the hot chamber, heated air is forced into the hot air plenum from a docking station, and the heated air is evenly distributed from the plenum into the hot chamber. To refrigerate foods in the cold chamber, chilled air is forced into the cold air plenum from the docking station, and the chilled air is evenly distributed from the plenum into the cold chamber. The substantially uniformly distributed convective air currents provide substantially even heating and cooling of foods located in all portions of the hot and cold chambers.

Refrigeration/rethermalization food delivery system

The present invention provides a beverage mug for containing hot or cold beverages without substantial spillage. The beverage mug comprises an endless outer wall having an open top and bottom, and an endless inner wall having an open top and bottom, each of which comprises a base portion, a mouth portion, and optionally, a neck portion. The base portion of each of the inner and outer walls is substantially wider in the direction generally perpendicular to the vertical axis, i.e., when viewed from the top, than said mouth portion from the same perspective, so as to impart stability to the mug and resist tipping of the mug. Advantageously, the first and second walls define an insulating space sufficient to retard heat transfer to or from a beverage contained in the mug. In preferred embodiments, the mug is formed in four sections, joined in three joints to form the mug, comprising the outer wall, the inner wall, a base portion joined to the inner wall and a base portion joined to the outer wall. A method aspect of the invention is also provided.

Double wall beverage container having a wide base

A closure cover for sealing a liquid container including a body having an orifice for dispensing the liquid in the container, and a rotating disk pivotally attached to the body and providing an effective seal for the dispensing orifice. The effective seal is created by a downward force upon a sealing gasket, such force being the result of the rotation of the disk member containing a ramp which is moved under a cam on the body.

Container closure arrangement

A rethermalization system for rethermalizing food includes (a) a food service tray having a hot dish through-opening and the through-opening having a through-opening top edge, (b) a rethermalization cart including a cart frame, a plurality of heating pads supported within the cart frame, and a plurality of vertically spaced tray supports attached to the cart frame for supporting the food service tray at a plurality of alternative vertically spaced shelf locations, and in a tray support position such that the hot dish through-opening is disposed above one of the heating pads, and (c) a food service dish positionable in the hot dish through-opening of the food service tray. The food service dish has a bottom surface for allowing heat transfer to occur from the heating pad to food in the food service dish with the tray in the tray support position, The food service dish is positionable in a heating position when the tray is in the tray support position such that the bottom surface of the food service dish is supported by the heating pad and an upper lip of the food service dish is slightly raised and out of contact with hot dish through-opening edge. This prevents heat transfer between the food service dish and the food service tray during heating of the food. The food service dish is also positionable in a serving position when the tray is supported on a planar surface such that the food service dish is supported by the contact of the upper lip with the hot dish through-opening top edge. This causes the generally vertical wall to be closely positioned adjacent to the hot dish through-opening in order to prevent excessive movement of the food service dish within the through-opening while the rethermalized food in the food service dish is being consumed.

Rethermalization system including food service dish

A food service rethermalization process including a tray having first and second receiving hot dish receiving areas, at least one cold dish receiving area and an end wing area for holding eating utensils, napkins and the like. First and second selector or actuator knobs are mounted in the tray adjacent to the first and second hot dish receiving areas, respectively, and can be separately turned to on or off positions. When the tray is inserted in a rethermalization cart and the first and second heating pods of the cart are at the first and second areas respectively, the heating pods whose associated knobs are in the 'on' position are switched on and the food at the associated areas thereby heated in a programmed manner. After the knobs have been turned as needed and before the tray is inserted in the cart, an over-all insulated cover is secured to and on top of the tray. The cover thermally separates and covers the different areas including the wing area. It thereby covers, insulates and protects each of the areas allowing the loaded tray to be safely transported outdoors to a remote building or other location.

Food rethermalizing and satelliting tray

Tray top for a food service tray

Tray

Cover

A closure cover for a liquid container includes a body portion that is releasably connected to the container and mounts a stopper member for rotational movement between positions that alternately expose or close dispensing and vent openings in the body portion. The stopper member is provided with limited flexibility to permit release of a sealed closure of the dispensing opening. Also, a centering device is provided on the stopper member to accurately position the visually obscured sealing flange with respect to the dispensing opening before pressure is applied to the stopper member for seating the sealing flange in the dispensing opening.

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Antioch, TN, United States of America

Gary C DeGrow