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US 8,074,813 B2Granted
Dish rack with adjustable spout and removable drip tray
Assigneesimplehuman, LLC
InventorsFrank Yang, Joseph Sandor, Chih-Hong Hsieh
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Abstract
A dish rack has a wireframe, a drip tray having a base and a dish-receiving region provided on the base, and a drain channel that is removably coupled to the bottom of the base at the location of the dish-receiving region.
Claims20
A dish rack, comprising:
- a wireframe;
- a drip tray removably supported by the wireframe, the drip tray having a base that has a bottom, the drip tray having a longitudinal dish-receiving region provided on the base and spanning an area less than entire area of the base, wherein the longitudinal dish-receiving region extends across a width of the base of the drip tray and has a plurality of openings distributed along the longitudinal dish receiving region for drainage, and wherein the drip tray does not have any opening providing drainage other than at the longitudinal dish-receiving region;
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- a longitudinal drain channel that drains water to outside of the dish rack, which is removably coupled to and supported from the bottom of the base of the drip tray at the location of the dish-receiving region, wherein the longitudinal drain channel extends to cover below all the openings in the entire longitudinal dish-receiving region to catch drainage from all the openings, and wherein the longitudinal drain channel does not extend to cover below entire area of the base.
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A drip tray for use with a dish rack, comprising:
- a base that has a bottom having a plurality of opening for drainage, and a longitudinal dish-receiving region provided on the base and spanning an area less than entire area of the base, wherein the longitudinal dish-receiving region extends across a width of the base and has a plurality of openings distributed along the longitudinal dish receiving region for drainage, and wherein the drip tray does not have any opening providing drainage other than at the longitudinal dish-receiving region;
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- a longitudinal drain channel that drains water to outside the drip tray, which is removably coupled to and supported from the bottom of the base of the drip tray at the location of the dish-receiving region, wherein the longitudinal drain channel extends to cover below all the openings in the entire longitudinal dish-receiving region to catch drainage from all the openings, and wherein the longitudinal drain channel does not extend to cover below entire area of the base.
A method of using a dish rack, comprising:
- a. providing a dish rack having:
- a wireframe;
- a drip tray removably supported by the wireframe, the drip tray having a base that has a bottom having a first side and a second side of periphery of the base, the drip tray having a longitudinal dish-receiving region provided on the base, wherein the longitudinal dish-receiving region extends across a width of the base of the drip tray and has a plurality of openings distributed along the longitudinal dish receiving region for drainage;
- a longitudinal drain channel;
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- a spout rotatably connected to the bottom of the drain channel;
- b. coupling the drain channel to and supporting the longitudinal drain channel from the bottom of the base of the drip tray at the location of the dish-receiving region, wherein the longitudinal drain channel extends to cover below all the openings in the entire longitudinal dish-receiving region to catch drainage from all the openings;
- c. rotating the spout about an axis extending from the bottom of the base to position the spout adjacent the first side of the base;
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- d. rotating the spout about the axis extending from the bottom of the base, from the first side of the base to position the spout adjacent the second side of the base.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.