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• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • F25D13/00—Stationary devices, e.g. cold-rooms
  • F25D13/06—Stationary devices, e.g. cold-rooms with conveyors carrying articles to be cooled through the cooling space
  • F25D13/067—Stationary devices, e.g. cold-rooms with conveyors carrying articles to be cooled through the cooling space with circulation of gaseous cooling fluid

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• the invention relates to a device for distributing refrigerated food, especially for commercial kitchens, with a belt conveyor, a number of mobile food distribution equipment and a refrigeration system with a closed refrigerant circuit.
• Belt conveyors for food distribution in the commercial kitchen sector have long been known. These are used in canteens, hospitals, nursing homes and the like. On the belt conveyor are mobile food distribution devices, eg. B. Tellerstapler, food distribution car, tray stacker and the like. In order to distribute chilled foods, for example salads, desserts, cook-chill components and the like, in practice the entire environment is regularly cooled by room air conditioning.
• a belt conveyor for transporting refrigerated food which has a thermally insulated housing and a cooling device arranged in the interior of the housing.
• the invention has for its object to provide a device for distributing refrigerated food, which allows a technically simple and effective cooling of standing along a belt conveyor food distribution equipment.
• the object is achieved in that the cooling capacity of the refrigeration system can be divided into a plurality of cooling points, which are arranged in the longitudinal direction of a belt conveyor and have means for connecting a food distribution device.
• the refrigeration system can be an external system or a refrigeration system integrated in the belt conveyor, which is preferably designed as a compression refrigeration system.
• food distribution devices are mitverentend by a cold subdistribution.
• the distribution boards remain mobile and do not require their own chiller.
• a preferred embodiment provides that the refrigerant circuit in the longitudinal direction of the belt conveyor has extending refrigerant lines and that several evaporators are connected to the refrigerant circuit to divide the cooling power to the cooling points.
• the evaporators are accessible on the outside of the belt conveyor and designed for example as a plate or plate heat exchanger.
• the food distribution devices are positioned on the evaporator and have surfaces or devices that heat exchange with the evaporator.
• the evaporators can also be arranged in cooling air ducts which can be connected to a cooling or sheath space of the food distribution devices.
• the evaporators associated with the cooling points are individually switched on and off.
• the belt conveyor has a thermally insulated housing in which at least one evaporator of the refrigeration system and at least one fan is arranged and in that the housing has outlet openings for cooling air to which the food distribution devices can be coupled.
• the belt conveyor preferably has a thermally insulated housing, in the interior of which cooling devices are arranged for cooling food conveyed on the belt conveyor.
• the cooling points can be equipped with adjusting devices with which the cooling capacity at the cooling points can be set or controlled individually.
• the adjusting devices are connected to a central control. With the central control, the cooling times and the temperature level of both the belt conveyor and the food distribution devices are tax-controlled and optionally individually.
• the central control is manually operated or program controlled.
• maintenance flaps and cleaning aids may be provided on the belt conveyor as well as the food distribution equipment. It is also possible to monitor the proper coupling of the distribution boards by sensors and / or on / off switch.

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