Abstract: The system is used for storing and delivering individual food trays having opposite hot and cold food products areas. The housing includes two separate chambers that can receive food trays through a respective one among two opposite lateral openings. Among other things, from the standpoint of an attendant at a food tray assembly station, this system allows using the same left-right food tray orientation regardless of which one of the lateral openings is directly set in front of the standpoint after repositioning the whole housing.

Abstract: The system is used for storing and delivering individual food trays having opposite hot and cold food products areas. The housing includes two separate chambers that can receive food trays through a respective one among two opposite lateral openings. Among other things, from the standpoint of an attendant at a food tray assembly station, this system allows using the same left-right food tray orientation regardless of which one of the lateral openings is directly set in front of the standpoint after repositioning the whole housing.

Abstract: The cabinet is for use at a food tray assembly station. It includes a repositioning system for repositioning food tray items disposed in a storage compartments on a shelf. This system includes a transversally-disposed push plate that is slidably engaged inside a corresponding one of the storage compartments and that is longitudinally movable along the food tray item path. It also includes an elongated and longitudinally-disposed pull strip that is slidably mounted inside the corresponding one of the storage compartments. A one-way locking device is interposed between the push plate and the pull strip to incrementally move the push plate in a forward direction upon moving the pull strip from the retracted position towards the extended position. The system can reposition a row of food tray items quickly and efficiently.

Abstract: The modular grease extractor is of the type to be used for replacing filters in an assembly which utilises a plurality of filters to accommodate grease extracting needs for various air flow generated by each cooking appliance. The extractor comprises a hopper shaped member which is opened at a wide end and is terminated by at least one opening at a narrow end thereof. The hopper shaped member has a front panel and a rear panel, and lateral sides joining the front and rear panels, thereby defining a grease extracting chamber. A sliding member is provided between the lateral sides to divide the grease extracting chamber into an entrance portion and an exit portion of the grease extracting chamber and to provide a variable communication between the entrance portion and the exit portion depending on the extent of penetration of the sliding member into the grease extracting chamber.

Abstract: Shots of grease biodegrading bacteria consortia are mixed with a flow of air which ascends through an exhaust hood. Preferably, the exhaust hood includes a filter device which comprises a narrowing passageway which is located immediately below a baffle filter thereby regularly distributing the air flow through the entire area of the baffle filter. The hood is constructed to cause a swirling motion to the air flow.

Abstract: The exhaust hood assembly has a vertically disposed greast extractor which leads into a suction ventilator adapted for expelling air and odor to the outside. The assembly has a first deflector at the entrance into the grease extractor to cause a first swirl of the air loaded with grease, impurities and odors, and a first release thereof into a bucket provided below the greast extractor. Inside the greast extractor there are two deflectors to cause swirls of the air load with grease and odor and release of grease and particles into the bucket. Finally, any grease and/or impurities not released in the grease extractor are centrifugally expelled by the suction ventilator and sent through a tube which also feeds into the bucket. This device is inexpensive to produce and is much more efficient than those currently in use.

Abstract: Along the path of the cooking fumes of an exhaust hood where the fumes move with swirling motion, forwardly adjustable blades are disposed between a retracted and an extended position to accentuate or decrease the intensity of the swirling path end of the centrifugal force applied to the particles to be removed, depending on the volume and the flow rate of the cooking fumes which ascend through the hood. This blade arrangement also ensures a constant static pressure inside the hood for a maximum efficiency of extraction.

Abstract: A lid is described wherein the bowl has a rim with a groove extending about the rim and open to the top. The lid includes a downwardly extending rib coinciding with the groove. The radius of the rib is smaller than the radius of the groove such that when liquid is present in the groove, surface tension will cause adhesion between the diverging surfaces of the groove and the rib.