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US 12,622,568 B2Granted
Dish drying mat
AssigneeMacneil IP LLC
InventorStephen Kane
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Abstract
A dish drying mat has elongate spaced-apart ribs upwardly extending from a general upper surface, and spaced-apart dimples downwardly extending from a general lower surface. The lateral locations of the ribs and the dimples do not intersect. A lower portion of a marginal wall has at least one gap so as to communicate a continuous lower volume below the general lower surface to the atmosphere beyond the peripheral margin of the mat. At rounded corners, the peripheral wall has inwardly concave surfaces which are sized to fit to a thumb or finger of a user's hand when grasping or cleaning the mat.
Claims4
A dish drying mat, comprising:
- a body having a general upper surface and a general lower surface spaced from the general upper surface;
- a plurality of elongate, laterally spaced apart ribs upwardly extending from the general upper surface, each rib occupying a respective lateral rib location;
- and
- a plurality of laterally spaced apart dimples downwardly extending from the general lower surface, each dimple occupying a respective lateral dimple location;
- wherein
- the lateral rib locations and the lateral dimple locations have no intersection, and wherein
- the general lower surface is spaced from the general upper surface by a substantially uniform body thickness, each of the ribs being at least partially hollow and being formed by walls having a thickness substantially the same as the substantially uniform body thickness, each rib having a downwardly open groove, and wherein
- the body, ribs and dimples are integrally injection-molded from a thermoplastic polymer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.