US1605238A

US1605238A - Tableware drainer

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Publication number: US1605238A
Application number: US653654A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jezik Paul
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1923-07-25
Filing date: 1923-07-25
Publication date: 1926-11-02
Anticipated expiration: 1943-11-02

Description

Nov. '2,192e.- 1,605,238 P. JEZIK TABLEWARE DRAI NER Filed July 25 1923 iv 5. Fly 4. 7

lNVENTOR Pau/ JeZ/X ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES PAUL JEZIK, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

TABLEWARE DRAINER.

Application filed. July 25, 1923. Serial No. 653,654.

This invention relates to wire receptacles which are designed, more especially, for use as a drainer for tableware.

The invention has for its object to provide a receptacle of this character which will be of novel, strong, durable and inexpensive construction, and which is convenient to use.

lVith this and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction,

19 arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the main or outer member of my improved drainer. Fig.

15 2 is a vertical section on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevational view, with parts broken away, of the inner member of the drainer. Fig. 4 is an elevational view of the drainer complete.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 5 indicates an outer member, preferably circular, which is intended for holding dishes; and 6 indicates the inner member which is arranged to be detachably connected to said outer member and is intended for holding knives, forks, spoons, and the like, while being drained.

Both of said members are constructed of wire. As shown, the outer member 5 is constructed with a frame comprising ribs 7 and 8, the inner ends of which are secured to a central ring 9, each rib extending therefrom in a general radial direction to a bend 10 and thence upwardly as at 11 and has its upper end secured to a ring 12 which constitutes the rim of the member.

At a short distance from the central ring 9, each of said ribs is provided with vertically spaced bends 13 and 14: to provide the frame with a central recessed portion.

This recessed portion of the frame is provided with a bottom 15 formed of a spirally arranged wire, see Fig. 1, and a peripheral wall 16 of a helically arranged wire which is desirably an extension of said bottom wire. Said bottom and wall are secured, as by welding, to the horizontal and vertical elements 17 and 18, respectively, of therecessed portion of the frame.

The wire 16 is disposed interiorly of the frame recess andby its helical arrangement serves as an internal screw thread.

Surrounding said recess the frame ribs wall of said pocket being support a floor comprising a plurality of rings 19 formed of wire andsecured to said ribs concentrically of the frame.

20 represent wire rings secured in vertically spaced positions to the rib elements 11 and with the latter and the rim l2 constitute the peripheral wall of the outer member. The ribs 7 adjacent to the respective bands 10 are formed with depending loops 21 which serve as supporting legs for the drainer.

The inner member 6 is the shape of an inverted frustum of a cone, is made of wire with a frame consisting of a ring 23 secured to the upper ends of ribs 22. Rigidly secured to and surrounding the rib portion of the last named frame is a helically arranged wire 24 which serves as an external screw thread with respect to the inner member and is engageable with the internal screwthreads provided by the helically arranged wire 16 of the outer member for detachably connecting the two members together.

The two members are readily coupled or disconnected by suitably rotating the inner member when the smaller end of the same is inserted within the receptacle therefor provided by the central recess of the outer member. The outer member is intended to be used for dishes, or the like, whether the inner member is used or not.

The inner member is intended to be used for knives, forks, etc., which are supported thereby in substantially vertical positions upon the floor 15 of the recess or pocket of the bottom of the outer member.

The drainer is of simple constructionand is conveniently kept in a clean and sanitary condition.

What I claim, is,

A drainer of the character described formed of wire and comprising an outer member having a circular pocket in the floor thereof, the wire constituting the peripheral disposed helically,

an inner member having a circumferential wall formed by arranging the structural wire helically so as to afford a screw-like engagement with the helically formed wall of said pocket.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 9th day of July, 1923.

PAUL JEZIK.