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A heated warming apparatus for food products comprises, one or a plurality of food containers, a housing for accomodating the food containers, and a hot-air fan whose discharge opening leads in the housing. Since in such conventional apparatus, the hot air blown from the hot-air fan into the housing

A heated warming apparatus for food products comprises, one or a plurality of food containers, a housing for accomodating the food containers, and a hot-air fan whose discharge opening leads in the housing. Since in such conventional apparatus, the hot air blown from the hot-air fan into the housing flows along the exterior of the food containers which mostly are cardboard containers, the transfer of heat to the food products contained in the containers is poor. In order to maintain a sufficiently high temperature of the food products the hot air has to be heated intensively. The object of the invention is to reduce the required heating power in an apparatus of this type. This object is achieved by providing each food container with one or a plurality of inlet holes and one or a plurality of outlet holes for the hot air, and each food container is arranged in the housing such that at least one of its holes in in fluid communication with the discharge opening.

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A heated warming apparatus for food products, comprising: at least one food container for containing a food product; a housing for accommodating the food container; and a hot-air fan having a fan suction and a fan discharge, the hot-air fan supplying a hot air to the housing, wherein each food conta

A heated warming apparatus for food products, comprising: at least one food container for containing a food product; a housing for accommodating the food container; and a hot-air fan having a fan suction and a fan discharge, the hot-air fan supplying a hot air to the housing, wherein each food container has a least one inlet hole and at least one outlet hole for the hot air, the housing having a housing bottom with a housing inlet and a housing outlet for the hot air, the hot-air fan being mounted on an exterior of the housing such that the fan discharge covers the housing inlet, and, wherein the food containers are stackable, each food container having a bottom, a circumferential wall rising from the bottom, and a cover, at least one inlet hole of each food container being provided in the bottom, at least one outlet hole of each food container being provided in the cover, each food container being arranged in the housing such that at least one of the inlet holes of each food container is in fluid connection with the hot-air fan discharge, the arrangement being obtained by stacking food containers inside the housing such that at least one inlet hole of a lowest food container is aligned with the housing inlet, the food containers being further arranged such that a lower food container and an upper food container form a pair of food containers, that in each pair of food containers, at least one inlet hole of the upper food container is aligned with at least one outlet hole of the lower food container and such that at least one outlet hole of an uppermost food container is in fluid connection with the housing outlet.