Title: Food serving system

Abstract: A warming unit and serving tray combination includes a unit that has a generally planar bottom surface which accommodates resting on a counter top with a top surface being parallel to and spaced above that counter top. The top surface is warmed, and it includes a peripheral margin of a contour that extends therearound. A serving tray has an upper surface corresponding in extent to the top surface of the warming unit and its skirt has a bottom margin matable with the warming unit so as to nest therewith. There are a plurality of openings in the serving tray that receive corresponding food containers seatable therein.

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Inventors: Mackay, Frederick G. (Tarzana, CA, US)
Keryluk, Horace T. (Ft. Collins, CO, US)
Cannon, Thomas G. (Ft. Collins, CO, US)

Application Number: 795175
Filing Date: 1977-05-09
Publication_date: 1979-03-20
Assignee: Teledyne Industries, Inc. (Ft. Collins, CO)
Primary Class(es): 219/387 219/432, 219/433, 219/448.11, 219/466.1, 219/473, D7/364
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US Patent Ref:

RE16908	Mar, 1928	Rittman et al.	219/433.
2024259	Dec, 1935	Troeber et al.	126/33.
2187196	Jan, 1940	Douglass	219/387.
2271156	Jan, 1942	Walker	220/8.
2563875	Aug, 1951	Salton	219/465.
2867712	Jan, 1959	Schwaneke	219/454.
3147369	Sep, 1964	Salton	219/449.
3381115	Apr, 1968	Welch	219/387.
3385952	May, 1968	Mix	219/387.
3391271	Jul, 1968	Campbell	219/432.
3636299	Jan, 1972	Stewar, Jr.	219/218.

Other Refs: 6314087357191025595

May, 1936	DE2
Nov, 1932	FR
Apr, 1966	GB

Primary Examiner: Truhe, J. V.
Assistant Examiner: Roskoski, Bernard
Attorney: Drake; Hugh H.