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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
May. 13, 1999
Moe H Majordy, Parsons, TN (US);
Manitowoc Foodservice Group, Inc., Sparks, NV (US);
Abstract
A food preparation table comprises a storage compartment; a food preparation surface above the storage compartment; a cold wall tank adjacent the food preparation surface and above the storage compartment, the tank having a liner forming the inside walls and floor of the tank, refrigerant cooling passageways in heat transfer relationship on the outside of the liner; and support rails; a plurality of food storage pans each having flanges for supporting the pans on the support rails and side and bottom walls forming the food storage portion of the pan and extending from the flanges downwardly into the tank; a refrigeration system comprising a source of compressed refrigerant, an evaporator and interconnecting refrigerant lines that supply refrigerant to the evaporator and the tank refrigerant cooling passageways; and an air distribution system which circulates air past the evaporator to cool the storage compartment and inside the tank where it impinges on the inside walls of the liner and from there onto the walls of the food pans.