Patents Assigned to Kitchen Equipment Fabricating Company
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Patent number: 8997640Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, apparatus, and method for a modular food tray system having a plurality of food trays that can be used for heating, cooling, or a combination thereof. The system can include a first food tray for heating and a second food tray for cooling, generally mounted at a different elevation from the first food tray. Alternatively, one or both of the food trays can be designed for cooling through temperature elements coupled thereto and the tray can be heated by overhead radiant heating elements for dual temperature capabilities. The first food tray can be mounted above the second food tray. The first food tray can include a thermal shield between a heating element in the first food tray and the second food tray. In other embodiments, the second food tray can be mounted above the first food tray with a thermal shield therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Kitchen Equipment Fabricating CompanyInventors: Alvis Lloyd Hartsfield, Jr., Charles Horace Camp
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Publication number: 20140174694Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, apparatus, and method for a modular food tray system having a plurality of food trays that can be used for heating, cooling, or a combination thereof. The system can include a first food tray for heating and a second food tray for cooling, generally mounted at a different elevation from the first food tray. Alternatively, one or both of the food trays can be designed for cooling through temperature elements coupled thereto and the tray can be heated by overhead radiant heating elements for dual temperature capabilities. The first food tray can be mounted above the second food tray. The first food tray can include a thermal shield between a heating element in the first food tray and the second food tray. In other embodiments, the second food tray can be mounted above the first food tray with a thermal shield therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: KITCHEN EQUIPMENT FABRICATING COMPANYInventors: Alvis Lloyd Hartsfield, Jr., Charles Horace Camp
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Patent number: 8701554Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, apparatus, and method for a modular food tray system having a plurality of food trays that can be used for heating, cooling, or a combination thereof. The system can include a first food tray for heating and a second food tray for cooling, generally mounted at a different elevation from the first food tray. Alternatively, one or both of the food trays can be designed for cooling through temperature elements coupled thereto and the tray can be heated by overhead radiant heating elements for dual temperature capabilities. The first food tray can be mounted above the second food tray. The first food tray can include a thermal shield between a heating element in the first food tray and the second food tray. In other embodiments, the second food tray can be mounted above the first food tray with a thermal shield therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Kitchen Equipment Fabricating CompanyInventors: Alvis Lloyd Hartsfield, Jr., Charles Horace Camp, Jr.
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Publication number: 20120216987Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, apparatus, and method for a modular food tray system having a plurality of food trays that can be used for heating, cooling, or a combination thereof. The system can include a first food tray for heating and a second food tray for cooling, generally mounted at a different elevation from the first food tray. Alternatively, one or both of the food trays can be designed for cooling through temperature elements coupled thereto and the tray can be heated by overhead radiant heating elements for dual temperature capabilities. The first food tray can be mounted above the second food tray. The first food tray can include a thermal shield between a heating element in the first food tray and the second food tray. In other embodiments, the second food tray can be mounted above the first food tray with a thermal shield therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: KITCHEN EQUIPMENT FABRICATING COMPANYInventors: Alvis Lloyd HARTSFIELD, JR., Charles Horace CAMP, JR.
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Patent number: 8171845Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, apparatus, and method for a modular food tray system having a plurality of food trays that can be used for heating, cooling, or a combination thereof. The system can include a first food tray for heating and a second food tray for cooling, generally mounted at a different elevation from the first food tray. Alternatively, one or both of the food trays can be designed for cooling through temperature elements coupled thereto and the tray can be heated by overhead radiant heating elements for dual temperature capabilities. The first food tray can be mounted above the second food tray. The first food tray can include a thermal shield between a heating element in the first food tray and the second food tray. In other embodiments, the second food tray can be mounted above the first food tray with a thermal shield therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Kitchen Equipment Fabricating CompanyInventors: Alvis Lloyd Hartsfield, Jr., Charles Horace Camp, Jr.
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Publication number: 20110018406Abstract: The disclosure provides a food-line serving counter with an adjustable trayslide that readily adjusts to different heights using the frame of the counter's trayslide elevator assemblies. Multiple trayslide elevator assemblies can be coupled together, even around angles, to allow a variety of types of trayslides, including long and curving trayslides, to be elevated to different heights on the counter. With the present invention, a customer can purchase a food-line serving counter, and use it at a variety of heights for different groups of children, disabled persons, and those with special needs from a single facility and satisfy federal and state requirements. A trayslide actuator can be placed at a variety of locations suitable for the installation and raise the entire trayslide from a single position. Further, the trayslide elevator assembly can include a slider and a slider guide to provide stability and rigidity on the trayslide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: KITCHEN EQUIPMENT FABRICATING COMPANYInventors: Alvis Lloyd Hartsfield, JR., Charles Horace Camp, JR.
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Publication number: 20080283440Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, apparatus, and method for a modular food tray system having a plurality of food trays that can be used for heating, cooling, or a combination thereof. The system can include a first food tray for heating and a second food tray for cooling, generally mounted at a different elevation from the first food tray. Alternatively, one or both of the food trays can be designed for cooling through temperature elements coupled thereto and the tray can be heated by overhead radiant heating elements for dual temperature capabilities. The first food tray can be mounted above the second food tray. The first food tray can include a thermal shield between a heating element in the first food tray and the second food tray. In other embodiments, the second food tray can be mounted above the first food tray with a thermal shield therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: KITCHEN EQUIPMENT FABRICATING COMPANYInventors: Alvis Lloyd Hartsfield, JR., Charles Horace Camp, JR.
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Publication number: 20070267950Abstract: The present disclosure radically departs from conventional teaching and creatively offers a flexible alternative to the orthogonal arrangement. The present disclosure provides a system of modular counters that can be mixed to create arrangements shaped as an āSā, āCā, or a multitude of other modular arrangements by mixing predefined toroidal shaped modular radial counters with other modular radial counters and/or modular orthogonal counters. For the present disclosure, such radial arrangements represent a significant change in the accepted understanding of orthogonal counter design. Examples of such flexible radial arrangements are disclosed herein. Despite decades of efforts in this field and the opportunities to design similar modules, the field has simply been absent of such modular radial solutions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2007Publication date: November 22, 2007Applicant: KITCHEN EQUIPMENT FABRICATING COMPANYInventor: Alvis Lloyd HARTSFIELD
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Patent number: D543740Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2006Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Kitchen Equipment Fabricating CompanyInventors: Alvis Lloyd Hartsfield, Jr., Charles Horrace Camp, Jr.
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Patent number: D587938Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2006Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Kitchen Equipment Fabricating CompanyInventor: Alvis Lloyd Hartsfield, Jr.
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Patent number: D650397Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2009Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Kitchen Equipment Fabricating CompanyInventors: Alvis Lloyd Hartsfield, Jr., William Cassidy, Johnnie Hal Merchant, Jr.