Dish carrier
OwnerJohn Stanfieldinventor
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Abstract
A dish carrier for transporting and storing a stack of dishes comprises a base from the periphery of which a set of resilient wire arms upwardly extends. A cover is slidably mounted onto the arms and a handle releasibly attachable to the ends of two opposing arms. So constructed, dishes may be stacked upon the base and maintained in their stacked configuration by the upright arms and the cover passed downwardly over the arms and onto the top of the stack of dishes.
Claims16
A dish carrier comprising a base and a pair of generally U-shaped, resilient wires each having two generally parallel arms that extend from a connecting bight, said pair of wires being mounted to said base with said wire bights extending mutually transversely along a bottom surface of said base and with said wire arms extending upwardly from an upper surface of said base adjacent a periphery thereof whereby dishes may be stacked upon the base and held by the arms of the resilient wires.
A dish carrier comprising a base having an upper surface and a lower surface, a set of resilient arms mounted to said base that extend upwardly, each of said arms comprised of an inverted U-shaped resilient wire having an outer strand located proximally to the periphery of said base and an inner strand located distally from said base periphery, said outer strand being mounted to said base and said inner strand having a free end located closely adjacent said base upper surface for spring biased movement generally toward and away from said outer strand in response to being spread and unspread by the placement and removal of dishes upon the base.
A stacked article carrier comprising first, second, third, and fourth resilient arms, means for maintaining said resilient arms in spaced substantially parallel relationship, said means comprising a first and second connecting member, said first connecting member extending from one end of said first resilient arm to the corresponding end of said second resilient arm and said second connecting member extending from one end of said third resilient arm to the corresponding end of said fourth resilient arm with a mid portion of said second connecting member crossing a mid portion of said first connecting member, and a base adapted to be supported by said connecting members with said resilient arms extending substantially perpendicularly from an upper surface of said base adjacent the edges thereof.
A stacked article carrier comprising first, second, third, and fourth resilient arms, means for maintaining said resilient arms in spaced substantially parallel relationship, said means comprising a first and second connecting member, said first connecting member extending from one end of said first resilient arm to the corresponding end of said second resilient arm and said second connecting member extending from one end of said third resilient arm to the corresponding end of said fourth resilient arm, and a base adapted to be supported by said connecting members with said resilient arms extending substantially perpendicularly from an upper surface of said base adjacent the edges thereof, said base having holes formed adjacent its edges, said holes being adapted to receive said resilient arms with said connecting members extending mutually transversely along a bottom surface of said base member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.