Supports: racks – Special article – Platelike
Patent
1997-04-04
1998-11-10
Gibson, Jr., Robert W.
Supports: racks
Special article
Platelike
211 413, 211 418, A47F 700
Patent
active
058330755
ABSTRACT:
The rack retains objects such as lids or other generally like-shaped items for washing and drying in a dishwasher or for sterilizing in a pot or pan of boiling water. The rack has a frame having up-standing dividers spaced apart from one another at regular intervals for receipt of the objects therebetween. The frame also has a pair of trunnions, a stop member and a groove formed therein. The rack includes a retainer having a pair of lateral supports pivotally mounted to the frame and a number of spaced bars attached to the supports and extending therebetween. Each support has a slot within which a trunnion is slidably received. The retainer swings about the trunnions from a closed position in which the bars are over the objects and prevent them from being removed from between the dividers to an open position in which the bars are beside the objects and allow them to be selectively inserted and removed from between the dividers. One of the supports has a boss which contacts the stop member when the retainer is in the closed position. The retainer when in the closed position being, with respect to the trunnions, selectively slidable downward to cause the boss to enter the groove and upward to withdrawn the boss therefrom. When the boss is in the groove it secures the retainer in the closed position.
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Czaplinski Cheryl E.
Grafe Bernie
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