Refrigerator with electro:inductive heaters - has inducers built into shelves to couple with elements in containers on trolley shelves

摘要

The refrigerator heating cabinet serves both to store individual prepared meals, and to reheat the meals as required. The cabinet has a series of shelves (2) and receives a trolley with a similar shelf arrangement. The trolley is moved into the refrigerated volume whereby the trolley shelves locate immediately above the cabinet shelves (2). A selectively regulated (10) electro-induction system can then be used to generate heat in trolley shelf mounted containers. The unit may include an intermittent induction current generator which feeds flat windings or couplers (4). The couplers (4) are contained withint he thermo-insulated walls walls (3) of the cabinet shelves (2). Thermo-insulation containers on each of the trolley shelves each inc. an element of conductive material. The fluctuating current emanating from the couplers (4) gives rise to heat generation by the elements and thus heating of a contained metal or alia.