Patents by Inventor Vito M. Onori

Vito M. Onori has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4216845
    Abstract: A portable self-supporting food service conveyor has an elongated rectangular table top supported at each end by box-like pedestal enclosures and in the top of which there is a circular tracking slot within which is removably received an articulated-slat conveyor belt. Centrally supported above the table top are a pair of vertically-spaced, rectangular shelf members for the temporary storage of condiments and other food portions to be placed on removable trays carried by the conveyor belt. One of the support pedestals houses electric drive mechanism for sprocket drive from underneath of a sprocket chain comprising the articulated conveyor belt and projecting through the conveyor tracking slot. The other pedestal houses a refrigerating compressor and evaporator system associated with a cooling coil serving to refrigerate a portion of one of the food holding shelves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1980
    Inventors: Philip Tashman, Vito M. Onori