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US 4,531,641 AGranted
Dish rack and drainboard
OwnerGene Archambaultinventor
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Abstract
A dish rack and drain board construction including a dish rack supported by integral leg means at a relatively high elevation above and substantially parallel with a sink or support platform and a drain board adjustably mounted for providing an adjustable incline water/debris collection and drainage surface to enable selective rates of draining and/or accommodation with varying sinks and platforms with which the dish rack and drain board may be utilized.
Claims13
A drainer having particular utility for being surmountable on a platform to enable stacking of wet items for drip drying and to facilitate drainage, comprising:
- rack means configured for receiving the items therewithin and having a plurality of drain holes;
- a front pair and a rear pair of spaced apart leg means affixed to said rack means and being dimensioned so that with surmounting on the platform said rack means being relatively distally mounted above the platform;
- drain board means configured for being positionable beneath and removable from said rack means without necessitating a dislocating of the surmounting of said rack means upon the platform.
A dish drainer comprising:
- dish rack means for receiving dishes and having a water drainage slot;
- a plurality of spaced apart support leg means affixed to said dish rack means;
- drain board means having a drainage surface portion positionable beneath the water drainage slot, and having mounting means to enable disposing of said drainage surface portion at a plurality of drainage inclines with said drain board means being pivotally mounted to enable shakable motion of the drain board means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.