| CPC A47B 31/02 (2013.01) [A47B 2031/002 (2013.01); A47B 2031/003 (2013.01); A47B 2031/023 (2013.01); A47B 2031/026 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A system for storing and delivering individual food trays, each food tray having separate hot and cold food products areas on opposite sides of a transversal demarcation line, the system including:
a housing having two lateral doors to selectively open and close a respective one among two opposite lateral openings, the housing including separate first and second chambers, each chamber having an enclosed internal space accessed through a respective one of the lateral openings, each chamber including:
a tray supporting arrangement having a plurality of vertically spaced stacking positions, each stacking position corresponding to a stowage space for receiving one of the food trays with the chamber through the respective lateral opening; and
a vertically extending thermal barrier to divide the enclosed internal space within the chamber into separate vertically extending hot and cold food products sections along the demarcation line on the food trays; and
when viewed from above, the hot food products section of the first chamber and the hot food products section of the second chamber are diametrically opposite to one another, and the cold food products section of the first chamber and the cold food products section of the second chamber are diametrically opposite to one another,
wherein the system includes an air passage arrangement forming a hot food products air circuit and a cold food products air circuit that are separate from one another.
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