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US 4,436,352 AGranted
Kitchen furnishings
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshio Okada, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Ryohei Murakami, Yoshiaki Segawa
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Abstract
This invention relates to a kitchen furnishings wherein a storage cabinet is arranged in an eye-level space above a work top with a sink laterally of the work top, which storage cabinet is provided with front and rear rack assemblies slidable from within the cabinet to above the work top adjacent the sink, a drain tray being provided within the cabinet for catching water drops from items placed on the rack assemblies to dry.
Claims6
A kitchen arrangement comprising:
- a. a sink having a front side facing frontward, a rear side facing rearward, and two opposite sides connecting said front and rear sides, one of said two sides having an upper side edge;
- b. a countertop adjacent said upper side edge on said one of said two sides of said sink defining an open space thereabove above said upper side edge;
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- c. a storage cabinet on said one of said two sides of said sink above said countertop and said upper side edge, adjacent said countertop and horizontally spaced from said upper side edge, said cabinet including:
- (1) outer walls defining an interior space therein, including a near side wall facing said sink, and a frontward facing front wall contiguous to said near side wall, a continuous opening being provided in said near side wall and in said front wall,
- (2) a plurality of rack assemblies having rack shelves mounted thereon, slidably mounted to said outer walls within said interior space forwardly and rearwardly side-by-side for movement toward and away from said sink, such that said rack shelves are freely movable between said interior space and said open space adjacent said sink, and
- (3) a lower drain tray within said interior space below said rack assemblies for receiving water drops falling from any items accommodated on said rack shelves.
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