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US 11,590,401 B2Granted
Sports equipment drying rack
OwnerRyan Teasdaleinventor
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Abstract
This disclosure relates to a drying rack for wet equipment constructed to support wet equipment having absorbent and non-absorbent sides. The drying rack supports the equipment such that absorbent sides of the wet equipment are generally oriented in a single windward direction relative to an external airflow source.
Claims14
A drying rack for wet equipment, comprising:
- a plurality of planks that interlock and are separable via a press fit, the rack having a front side and a back side, the front side faces a single windward direction when in use, the rack configured to support a complete set of personal hockey equipment in an orientation that exposes absorbent material in each article of the hockey equipment in the windward direction, the planks including:
- a foundation beam extending horizontally;
- a pair of feet that interlocks with the foundation beam and extends in the windward direction perpendicular to the foundation beam;
- a first lower beam and a second lower beam that interlocks with and extends vertically upward from the foundation beam;
- a lower arm that interlocks with the first and second lower beams, the lower arm extending in a horizontal direction parallel to the foundation beam and positioned vertically above the foundation beam;
- an upper beam that interlocks with and extends vertically upward from the lower arm, the upper beam positioned between the first and second lower beams;
- an upper arm that interlocks with the upper beam and extends in a horizontal direction parallel to the lower arm and positioned vertically above the lower arm;
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- a first stop and a second stop extending horizontally towards each other from opposed sides of the rack, the first stop is cantilevered from the first lower beam and the second lower beam is cantilevered from the second lower beam, wherein the first stop and the second stop are each configured to hold an article from the complete set of personal hockey equipment.
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