Toeplate and access cover

In a dishwasher supported on a floor or other mounting surface and having a box-like tub, said tub having a bottom wall, a top wall, two side walls, a back wall and an open front, a metal frame supporting said tub above a mounting surface to provide an under-tub space between said bottom wall of said tub and said mounting surface, a door for said open front of said tub, said door opening around a hinge line spaced slightly above the bottom of the door whereby the bottom of the door hinges inwardly and upwardly into a recess space below the tub when the door is opened outwardly, and a detachable combined toeplate-and-access-panel member covering a front of said under-tub space both behind said recess space and below said door, said member comprising a lower forward panel and an upper rearward panel each of which is relatively vertical, and a middle panel which is relatively horizontal and joins the upper and lower panels, said panels being formed as a single piece of sheet material, said lower panel having a lower edge, said lower edge being adjacent said mounting surface, said upper panel having an upper edge, said upper edge being adjacent the bottom of said tub, a pair of downward projections fixed to the bottom of the tub and aligned transverse to the tub and generally parallel to said hinge line, said upper edge of said upper panel having associated therewith a pair of receptors in register with and engagable over said projections, said lower panel having a pair of threaded fasteners fixing it to said metal frame, said fasteners being the only fasteners requiring unthreading and threading in the course of removing and reinstalling said member, and being well below the bottom of said door and readily accessible from the front of the dishwasher.