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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2002
Darly R. Monroe, Granite City, IL (US);
Kim C. Fietsam, New Athens, IL (US);
Paul S. Rusk, Ballwin, MO (US);
Duke Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A temperature controlled food serving bar. The food serving bar includes a cabinet having a bottom, opposite sides and opposite ends defining an interior-space. A top wall and an opening in the top wall are above the interior space. A plurality of elongate, generally parallel spaced apart dividers of thermally conductive material extend lengthwise of the cabinet in or below the opening. The dividers have side walls dividing the interior space into elongate generally parallel cavities. A temperature control system for controlling the temperature of the dividers has heat transfer lines extending along the side walls of the dividers. Upwardly facing surfaces on the dividers support food-holding pans such that the pans extend down into the cavities adjacent the side walls. Thermal barriers below the upwardly facing surfaces inhibit the transfer of heat between the side walls and the upwardly facing surfaces.