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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2020
The Vollrath Company, L.l.c., Sheboygan, WI (US);
Jill Hundley, Sheboygan, WI (US);
Thomas David VanDerPuy, Sheboygan, WI (US);
Jeffrey T. Zank, Germantown, WI (US);
Kirk Michael Komendat, West Henrietta, NY (US);
Kristin Blada, Howards Grove, WI (US);
Ian Robert Ecclestone, Oostburg, WI (US);
The Vollrath Company, L.L.C., Sheboygan, WI (US);
Abstract
A food station includes a base configured to support a food product, a frame coupled to the base and including a longitudinal member having a length extending in a longitudinal direction, and a heat strip module coupled to the longitudinal member. The heat strip module includes a housing, a heating element coupled to the housing, and a reflector coupled to the housing. The heat strip module is at least one of (a) selectively rotatable relative to the longitudinal member between a first orientation and a second orientation and configured to emit the energy in both the first orientation and the second orientation or (b) selectively repositionable along the length of the longitudinal member between a first position and a second position and configured to emit the energy in both the first position and the second position.