Low profile wire form rack for hood-type warewash machine and associated warewash machine and method
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorSteven H. KRAMER
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Abstract
A wire form ware rack for holding trays to be washed in a chamber of a hood-type warewash machine includes multiple rack supporting structures for supporting the wire form ware rack on corresponding structures of the warewash machine, and a primary support frame defining a ware support surface. The multiple rack support structures are configured and oriented relative to the primary support frame such that the ware support surface will be located below a bottom of a ware inlet opening and a bottom of a ware outlet opening of the warewash machine when the rack support structures are engaged with the corresponding structures of the warewash machine.
Claims14
A warewash machine, comprising:
- a chamber having an inlet opening and an outlet opening;
- a hood-type door movable upward and downward between an open position to allow access to the chamber through the inlet opening and the outlet opening, and a closed position that closes the inlet opening and the outlet opening;
- a wire form ware rack supported in a lower portion of the chamber, the wire form ware rack having a ware support surface that is located below a bottom of the inlet opening and a bottom of the outlet opening.
A wire form ware rack for holding trays to be washed in a chamber of a hood-type warewash machine, the wire form ware rack comprising:
- multiple rack supporting structures for supporting the wire form ware rack on corresponding structures of the warewash machine;
- a primary support frame defining a ware support surface;
- wherein the multiple rack support structures are configured and oriented relative to the primary support frame such that the ware support surface will be located below a bottom of a ware inlet opening and a bottom of a ware outlet opening of the warewash machine when the rack support structures are engaged with the corresponding structures of the warewash machine.
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A method of reconfiguring a warewash machine as between a configuration for cleaning standard wares and a configuration for cleaning long trays, wherein the warewash machine includes a housing defining an internal cleaning chamber having one or more wash and/or rinse arms, and a hood mounted form movement on the housing for movement between a raised open position that allows access to the chamber through an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and a lowered closed position that closes the inlet opening and the outlet opening, the method comprising:
- when configuring the warewash machine for cleaning standard wares, positioning a first wire form rack in the chamber on support portions of the chamber such that a ware rack receiving surface of the first wire form rack is positioned at a height substantially aligned with a bottom of the inlet opening and a bottom of the outlet opening;
- when configuring the warewash machine for cleaning long trays, positioning a second wire form rack in the chamber on the support portions of the chamber such that a tray support surface of the second wire form rack is positioned below the bottom of the inlet opening and the bottom of the outlet opening;
- wherein the second wire form rack is not present in the chamber when the warewash machine is configured for cleaning standard wares, and the first wire form rack is not present in the chamber when the warewash machine is configured for cleaning long trays.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.