Device for washing a ball cap in a dish washer
OwnerHarold W. Finney, Jr., John D. Fortheyinventors
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Abstract
A device for washing a ball cap in a dishwasher formed from a male top frame assembly and a female bottom frame assembly that nest together in a stacked formation. The front ends of the respective frame assemblies are pivotally secured to each other and there is structure for latching their rear ends together. There is a sufficient spacing between the respective frame assemblies when they are assembled together so that a ball cap placed between them is not wedged therein but free to move about. The ball cap device has been designed to be placed in a conventional dishwashing machine for washing a ball cap.
Claims3
A device for washing a ball cap in a dishwasher comprising:
- a male top frame assembly having a top crown portion, said a top crown portion having a front end, a rear end, a left side and a right side, said top crown portion having a base and an apex;
- a top brim portion extending forwardly only from the front end of said top crown portion, said top brim portion having a front end formed by a transversely extending front cross member that has a left end, a right end and a bottom surface;
- a female bottom frame assembly having a bottom crown portion, said bottom frame portion having a front end, a rear end, a left side and a right side, said bottom crown portion having a base and an apex;
- a bottom brim portion extending forwardly only from the front end of said crown portion, said bottom brim portion having a front end formed by a transversely extending front cross member that has a left end and a right end and a top surface;
- the bottom surface of said male top frame assembly is spaced a predetermined distance D1 from the top surface of said female bottom frame assembly when they are secured to each other so that a ball cap placed between them is not wedged therein but is free to move about;
- said male top frame assembly and female bottom frame assembly are each entirely integral members made of molded plastic material;
- means for pivotally securing the front end of said top brim portion to the front end of said bottom brim portion at two laterally spaced points comprising:
- the front cross member of said top brim portion having an aperture therein adjacent its right end and its left end, a pair of resilient fingers extending downwardly from the front and rear edges of each of said apertures;
- the front cross member of said bottom brim portion having laterally spaced upstanding protrusions that detachably interlock with said resilient fingers;
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- means for detachably securing the rear end of said top crown portion to the rear end of said bottom crown portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.