Title: Transport and serving device

Abstract: Transport, service and pick-up devices for use primarily in food, snack and beverage service in aircraft cabins; apparatus for loading, transporting, serving and picking-up of trays and containers used in serving meals, beverages and snacks to seated passengers in aircraft; a collapsible, storeable, transport service device suspended from an overhead monorail which, moving along the monorail, typically first receives a multiplicity of trays or objects from a storage and dispersal point in an aircraft cabin, then transports them to the passenger seating area, there permits distribution of the trays or objects to the passengers and, finally, thereafter, facilitates mass pick-up of the trays or objects from the passengers for transport back to the storage and dispersal point in the aircraft; a device of the character described which removably receives within itself loaded containers of trays for dispensing and pick-up of the trays from the containers.

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Inventors: McPhee, Donald T. (Kansas City, MO, US)

Application Number: 670748
Filing Date: 1976-03-26
Publication_date: 1976-12-28
Assignee:
Primary Class(es): 186/40 244/118.5
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

904525	Nov, 1908	Frederick	105/150.
3102607	Sep, 1963	Roberts	244/118.
3179208	Apr, 1965	Umanoff	244/118.
3457876	Jul, 1969	Holden	105/150.
3696890	Oct, 1972	Armstrong	104/93.

Other Refs: 499,198

Jun, 1937	UK

Primary Examiner: Kunin, Stephen G.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Scofield; Thomas M.