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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2017
B/e Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Anthony Brown, Leighton Buzzard, GB;
Donna C. Brownlie, Northamptonshire, GB;
Neil Elshaw, Gosport, GB;
Sam Foster, Milton Keynes, GB;
Peter Griffiths, Kensworth, GB;
Shahmaan Khan, London, GB;
Richard Morris, Pulloxhill, GB;
Venkata Prasanth Suman Neti, Milton Keynes, GB;
Chris Nixon, Bedfordshire, GB;
Elizabeth M. Payne, Rowesham, GB;
B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
In a preferred embodiment, a modular galley monument for an aircraft cabin includes a first side panel, a second side panel, and an upper surface connecting the first side panel and the second side panel. The modular galley monument may include dividers partitioning the monument into a number of compartments. The monument may include an upper monument portion and a lower monument portion connected at a periphery via a seal allowing for vertical deflection between the first monument portion and the second monument portion of at least one inch while maintaining contact with both. The monument may include an integrated heating appliance for a compartment, including an insulation shell, a heated compartment positioned within the insulation shell, an electrical heating unit disposed within the insulation shell and configured to provide heat energy to the heated compartment. And a door assembly rotatably connected about an opening of the heated compartment.