Galley and method of catering for passengers on an aircraft

US8387916B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Baatz · Sauensiek, DE
• Joyce Tan · Hamburg, DE
• Jonathan W. Short · Winchester, GB
• Robert J. Henshaw · Newnan, US
• Mark Londborg · Atlanta, US
• Steve Casey · Cambridge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 24, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 5, 2013
• Expiry date: Dec 21, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T50/40
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A galley including a galley body on a cabin floor for accommodating storage boxes, appliances and at least one service cart; storage boxes for storing goods, and a service cart. The galley body has a plurality of vertical levels that are substantially equidistant from each other, each of the vertical levels divided into a plurality of laterally adjacent compartments whose horizontal and vertical dimensions are equal to an integer multiple of the respective dimensions of a single one of the storage boxes. A transfer table is provided in front of the galley body for access to the compartments. A method includes catering for passengers on an aircraft.