Apparatus for chilling a plurality of food trays.

Chilling device especially for airline food tray serving carts has a small blower at one upper end of the inside of the cart, which exhausts air across a removable pan of dry ice or other cooling material positioned on an upper shelf of the cart. Spacer means in the cart enclosure prevent the stacked trays from blocking vertical air flow passage at each end of the cart. Thus, the chilled air is directed downwards from the pan over the inside wall of a door on the cart. The chilled air then passes horizontally over at least a portion of the trays containing items to be chilled and is sucked upwards along the other inside end wall of the cart to the blower inlet duct. The device is very light in wt. and sufficiently uniformly cools items on each tray which must be chilled, when a container on each tray is...