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Abstract

Apparatus for keeping hot and for transporting prepared dishes, in particular pizzas, from the producer to the consumer, using a motor vehicle equipped with a thermally insulated container, which in its lower portion is provided with a heat exchanger using which the heat supplied by an external source is transmitted to the air in the container by heat conduction and radiation, characterised in that the container is laid out as an essentially square box at the bottom of which the heat exchanger is incorporated. One of the four lateral walls of the box is linked to the box, forming a door which is sealed and gives access to the container. The other three lateral walls and the top cover of the box are laid out as double walls enclosing air interspaces, which on their sides are all mutually interconnected and towards the front, towards the access door, are connected to the inner chamber of the container. The inner chamber of the container is connected with the surrounding room via a through passage opening located in the lower portion of the bottom of the container. Air from the outside is fed into the air interspaces provided in the other lateral walls and in the top cover using at least one blowing fan arranged in the back lateral wall in such a manner that an air stream is established passing from the air interspaces to the inner chamber via the connection provided at the access door and escaping via the passage opening located at the bottom of the container. The inner chamber, in which the dishes to be transported are stored, is provided with supporting shelves which do not subdivide it into separated zones but permit free air circulation and formation of air vortices.

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