US2184245A

US2184245A - Drainer basket

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Publication number: US2184245A
Application number: US227623A
Authority: US
Inventors: Henry J Watral
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1938-08-31
Filing date: 1938-08-31
Publication date: 1939-12-19
Anticipated expiration: 1956-12-19

Description

Dec. 19,1939; H. J. WATRAL 2,184,245

DRAINER BASKET Filed Aug. 31, 1.93s 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 l j l2,

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INVENTOR hf; ATTORNEY,

De.-19.,1939. H. J. WATRAL 4 2,184,245

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BY Wag? ATTORNEY- Patented Dec; 19, 1939 UNITED 1 STATES PATENT, OFFICE 7 2,184,245 '1 DRAINEB. BASKET Henry J. Watral, Astoria, N. Y.

Application August 31, 1933, Serial No. 227,623

ally contain an elongated separate small basket or compartment secured therein for the silver, that is the eating utensils used at the table, aside of the dishes, cups and "the like, usually called the' silver tray. I

- Now, it is a very desirable and necessary quality of such drainer baskets that they should be adapted to be placed telescopically one into the other, an operation usually called nesting, whereby a great number of such baskets may be put 20 into a telescopical relation to one another, into a comparatively small space, for shipping or storage. It will be obvious that such nestingwill result in great saving of space, labor, materials for wrapping and boxing, and will make such packing, shipping and storage more convenient.

With the drainer baskets having their silver tray secured in the basket, as it is most desirable, such nesting is impossible since the silver tray of the lower basket will prevent a nesting of the :u) upper one therein. To avoid this drawback,

drainer baskets have been made in which the silver tray is secured outside of the drainer basket, usually on one side of the upper frame thereof. i This would permit nesting but will make the construction and use of the drainer basket awkward, inconvenient for shipping, storage, etc., it also will use larger space than the basket itself, and will cause trouble and awkward operations to pack such nesteddrainer baskets.

40 It has also been proposed to make the silver tray hinged on said upper frame member and to swing it inwardly when the basket is in use and swing it outwardly when several baskets are shipped or stored, and a nesting is desired. Such 5 baskets also have been constructed but they have the drawback of being awkward and cumbersome in use and in storage, and their construction also is more expensive than that of the simple baskets, and the hinged elements will also be ready sources an of trouble, particularly causing the usual coating, like tin, rubber, etc.,. on the wires of the basket and of the silver tray, to rust, peel and quickly deteriorate, as Will be obvious.

Another object of my*invention is to provide 55 a drainer basket with a silver tray permanently secured therein, which will permit a ready nesting of a number of such baskets one, in the other, including the silver trays.

A further object of my invention is to provide a drainer basket of this character, which will be 5 simpler than such baskets now in use, will be inexpensive to manufacture, and will be more adapted to tinning or rubber coating than the baskets of similar construction now in use.

Other objects of my invention will be apparent as the specification of the same proceeds.

In the drawings, forming a part of this specification, and accompanying the same:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a drainer basket according to my invention, a portion of the same having been broken away;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation thereof along the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; while Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation along the line 3-4 of Fig. 1-; and I 26 of my drainer basket, and

Figs. 6 and 7 are fragmentary plan view and a sectional elevation, respectively, of another modification of such a silver tray.

Referring now to the drawings more in detail, by characters of reference, the numeral l0 indicates my drainer basket proper being composed of three elements, namely, the longitudinal wire members I I, the transverse wire members I2,,and an upper wire frame l3,. The major portions of the longitudinal wires ll, indicated by the numerals Ila, are of straight lines, and so are the 85 two side portions of the transverse wires l2, indicated by the numerals I2a. At the points of intersection of said two systems of wires, indicated by the numerals M, the same are secured to one another, as by welding, so that the straight 40 portions of said wires will form the bottom structure of my drainer basket.

The end portions of the longitudinal wires II are bent upwardly in an outwardly inclined direction, as indicated at llb (Fig.3), forming the two transverse sides of my drainer basket, and, in a similar manner, the two ends of the transverse wires l2 are bent upwardly and outwardly in an inclined manner, as indicated at I217, said outwardly inclined portions of said transverse wires l2 forming the longitudinal sides of my basket. The upper frame member l3 also shows two longitudinal sides, 13a and I31), and two transversesides [3c and I3d, to which are secured the upper ends of the inclined wire portions I212 and lib respectively, by any appropriate means, as by welding, as indicated at l5. Legs l6 may be secured to the bottom wires, at appropriate places, if desired.

A specially constructed silver tray, generally indicated by the numeral I1, is secured to an appropriate portion of my drainer basket, in the embodiment here shown, it being arranged alongside of the transverse upper frame member I311.

In the preferred embodiment of said silver tray, shown in Figs. 1 to 3, it is formed of a longitudinal wire loop, generally indicated by the numeral I 8, and being formed of the

side members

19 and 20, and end or cross members 2| and 22. The side members l9 and 20 are of straight line formation and are secured to and on the longitudinal bottom wires H by any appropriate means, as again by welding, and as indicated at 23. The end portions of the loop l8, indicated by the numerals l9a and 20a, and I9b and 20b, respectively, are also bent upwardly and outwardly in an inclined manner, their plane of inclination being identical to that containing the inclined ends l2b of the transverse bottom wires l2, so that, in a word, the end portions of the said loop l8 form parts of the two longitudinal sides of my drainer basket.

A plurality of cross loops, generally indicated by the numeral 24, are secured on the longitudinal wires l9 and 20 of the longitudinal loop [8 of my silver tray, by any appropriate means, as by welding, as indicated at 25.

Each of said cross loops 24 is again formed by two

main portions

26 and 21 and two

end portions

28 and 29. The central part of said main portions is generally of straight lines, while the outer ends 26a, 21a, 26b and 21b thereof are bent upwardly and outwardly in an inclined manner to form the two longitudinal sides of the silver tray. The inclination of the sides 26b and 21b is again of such a direction that said inclined portions 26b and 21b of the silver tray will fall into the plane of the inclined portions llb of the longitudinal wires, forming the transverse side of my drainer basket adjacent and secured to the frame member l3d, while the other longitudinal side of the silver tray, formed by the wire portions 26a and 21a is bent out wardly and upwardly inclined, similar to the said portions 26b-and 21b, but in a reverse, opposite direction, as will be best seen in Fig. 3. Upwardly projecting loops I2c are formed in the centers of the transverse bottom wires l2, all of said loops also being inclined in one direction, in the case shown, towards the side l3c of the upper frame, said loops being provided to receive the dishes to be drained in an inclined manner, as it is well known in this art.

In Fig.' 3, I indicate the manner in which several of my drainer baskets may be telescopically placed into one another, that is, how they are adapted to the nesting operation. In said figure, my drainer basket I0 is shown as nesting in a lower similar drainer basket, indicated in an imaginary manner by dot and dash lines, and generally designated by the numeral 30, and it is shown that the respective right hand inclined sides of the two drainer baskets may be placed in a telescopical manner, side by side, the elements of the silver trays in the planes of said sides naturally being telescopically placed into one another within said sides, while the inner longitudinal side of the lower silver tray, being formed by the elements generally indicated in the imaginary dot and dash line showing by the numeral 3|, and corresponding to the elements 26a and 21a in the upper basket, will pass through the spaces in the bottom of the upper basket between the longitudinal wires ll thereof, while at the same time the spaces between said elements 3|, indicated in Fig. 1 by the numerals 32, and the end spaces 33 at the two ends of the silver tray, will permit said longitudinal wires I I in the bottom of the upper tray to enter within the confines of the silver tray in the lower basket and pass downwardly through

said spaces

32 and 33, respectively, as will be understood,.and as all the elements of both drainer baskets have the same, inclination, nothing will be in the way of the nesting, as shown in Fig. 3. It also will be understood that initially when starting such nesting operation, theside portions I2a of the closest bottom transverse wires l2 in the upper basket will have to avoid the horizontal upper wire elements 28 in the loops in the inner side.

of the silver tray of the lower basket. For this purpose the upper basket at the start will be shifted somewhat to the left, as seen in Fig. 3 so as to cause its said nearest bottom wires We to clear, to the left, the upper cross branches 28 in the inner side loops of the silver tray of the lower basket, whereupon the upper basket may be moved back in a right handed direction and permitted to sink downwardly into the lower basket. The same initial avoidance of the wires 28, in the lower silver tray, by the nearest bottom wires l2a, in the upper basket, may be aided by tilting the upper basket somewhat upwardly at its left end (Fig. 3) when it still is at a distance above the lower basket and then righting it when said wires 12a have passed around and underneath said wires 28.

I may rema; that the construction of a drainer basket, as herein shown and described, will give a simple but novel and attractive appearance to the basket, and will also be particularly adapted for covering all the elements of the basket and of the silver tray therein with rubber, as it is I desired of better grade goods of such type.

In Figs. 4 and 5, a modified form of the construction of my silver tray is indicated. In this modification, the silver tray is not formed of individual wire loops 24, as in the preferred embodiment described hereinbefore, but it will be made of one single piece of wire 34, which is bent and looped in the manner indicated in Fig. 4, whereupon the two sides thereof will be upwardly bent, as indicated at 35 and 36 in Fig. 5, thereby forming a silver tray adapted to be secured to the bottom of a drainer basket, and to be used for the telescopic or nesting operation described hereinbefore.

In this embodiment no ends, similar to 2| and 22 in the preferred embodiment, are made for the silver tray, while suitable bends may be provided for such purpose also in the single wire 34, as will be obvious. The lines of bending are indicated in an imaginary manner by the dot and dash lines 35a and 36a in Fig. 4.

Another modified construction of the silver tray is indicated in Figs. 6 and '7. In this modification, the silver tray is formed of a single piece of sheet material 31, having a plurality of extensions or fingers 38 at the two sidesthereof and similar fingers or extensions 39 at the two ends. After bending these fingers or extensions in the manner indicated in Fig. 7, the silver tray, made of a single piece of sheet material, may be secured to the bottom wires of the drainer basket and used as described hereinbefore. The

lines of bending in this'modification are indicated by the dot and dash lines 40, 4|, and 42.

What I claim'is new, is:

1. In a drainer basket, having a basket proper with an open work bottom, a silver tray having upstanding side walls and a bottom immovably secured within said basket proper, the upstanding side walls for said silver tray being formed of spaced apart elements, the spaces between said elements being open at the top so as to permit respective members in said open work bottom to pass downwardly through the open tops into said spaces when a drainer basket is caused to nest in another one therebelow, said spaced apart elements in the silver tray of said lower basket at the same time passing upwardly through respective openings in said bottom of the upper basket.

2. In a drainer basket, as set forth in claim 1, said silver tray being formed of an elongated wire member, the major central portion of which follows the plane of the bottom of the basket and being secured thereto, its two ends being bent upwardly to form the ends of the silver tray, and a plurality of transverse wire loops secured on said elongated wire member, the end portions of said transverse wire loops being bent upwardly to form the two sides of the silver tray. 3. In a drainer basket, as set forth in claim 1, saidsilver tray being formed of a piece of wire shaped into a continuous row of loops, the ends of said loops being turned upwardly to form the two sides of the silver tray.

4. In a drainer basket, as set forth in claim 1,

said silver tray being formed of a bottom member having fingers projecting from the circumference thereof, said fingers being bent upwardly to form the sides of the silver tray.

5. In a drainer basket, as set forth in claim 1, said silver tray being formed of a bottom member of a piece of sheet material, having projections formed around the circumference thereof, said projections being adapted to project upwardly to form the sides and ends of the silver tray.

HENRY J. WATRAL