Drain guard
OwnerBarbara J. Walshinventor
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Abstract
A drain guard for a sink equipped with a garbage disposal having a flange attached to a surface of such sink and forming a sink drain opening includes a generally round and flat body member, a T-shaped grip attached to a top surface of the body member and a generally flat member extending outwardly and in a generally vertical direction from a bottom surface of the body member and which is capable of scraping solids from at least one of eating wear and such sink surface.
Claims18
A drain guard for a sink equipped with a garbage disposal having a flange attached to a surface of the sink and forming a sink drain opening, said drain guard comprising:
- (a) a body disposed in a generally horizontal plane when said drain guard is positioned within the sink drain opening;
- (b) a grip member attached to a top surface of said body;
- (c) a generally flat member extending outwardly from a bottom surface of said body in a plane generally transverse to a plane of said bottom surface of said body, said generally flat member having a straight bottom edge disposed in a plane being generally parallel to said plane of said bottom surface of said body, said bottom edge scraping solids from at least one of eating wear and the sink surface;
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- (d) a plurality of apertures disposed within said body for enabling a liquid to flow into the sink drain opening, herein each of said plurality of apertures is generally round.
In a drain guard for a sink equipped with a garbage disposal having a flange attached to a surface of the sink and forming a sink drain opening, the improvement wherein said drain guard includes each of an elongated grip and a generally flat scraper extending outwardly and in a generally vertical direction from a bottom surface of said drain guard, said scraper having a straight bottom edge disposed in a plane being generally parallel to a plane of said bottom surface of said body, said bottom edge scraping solids from at least one of eating wear and such sink surface.
A drain guard for a sink equipped with a garbage disposal having a flange attached to a surface of the sink and forming a sink drain opening, said drain guard consisting of:
- (a) a generally round and planar body disposed in a generally horizontal plane when said drain guard is positioned within the sink drain opening;
- (b) plurality of round apertures formed in a predetermined pattern through a thickness of said body and disposed inwardly from a peripheral edge thereof;
- (c) an elongated generally flat grip member positioned in a spaced apart relationship with a top surface of said body;
- (d) an elongated abutment provided on a bottom surface of said elongated flat grip member;
- (e) an elongated member disposed in a generally vertical plane when said drain guard is positioned within the sink drain opening of a sink surface disposed in a generally horizontal plane and having each of a first end thereof disposed centrally on and attached to said top surface of said body and an opposed second end thereof disposed on and attached to a bottom surface of said elongated abutment;
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- (f) a generally flat elongated scraping member extending outwardly in said generally vertical plane from said bottom surface of said body, said generally flat scraping member having a generally straight bottom edge thereof disposed in a plane being generally parallel to said plane of said bottom surface of said body, wherein a length of said scraping member defined by a pair of spaced apart side edges is greater than a height thereof defined by a distance between said bottom edge of said scraping member and said bottom surface of said body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.