Serving apparatus

Claim 1

A storage and serving apparatus detachably affixed to a back of a passenger seat, comprising: a frame having a top, a bottom, a backwall, and first and second sidewalls forming a chamber open on the front portion and being removably attached within the space of the back of the passenger seat with said walls and said sidewalls in contact with the seat; a serving tray connected to lower portion of the housing for movement between a first position at which the tray extends laterally and substantially horizontally outwardly from the lower portion of the housing and a second position at which the tray is covering the front portion of the housing and sealing the chamber; a plurality of dividing members extending laterally from the frame within the chamber to divide said chamber into a plurality of compartments; an electric heating element within at least one of the compartments for providing a heating compartment within the apparatus; said electric heating element having an electric line with a plug means positioned on the outer portion of the housing for automatically connecting the heating element to a power source during attachment of the apparatus to the passenger seat; and an insulating material within the compartment having the heating element therein and an insulated closing element for covering and sealing the frontal portion of the heating compartment.