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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1988
Ginger E Patera, Lincoln Township, Berrien County, MI (US);
Larry L Janke, Joseph Township, Berrien County, MI (US);
William T Lampman, Joseph Township, Berrien County, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
An article holder for the dish rack of a dishwasher is provided for securely holding cup-shaped articles. The article holder includes a hinge member for removably interconnecting said article holder to a horizontally extending tine of the dish rack. The article holder also includes an article engaging member that extends generally vertically with respect to the interconnecting member of the article holder. A curvelinear biasing member of the article holder is interposed between the interconnecting member and the article engaging member for resiliently biasing the article engaging member against an article, holding a wall of the article between the holder's article engaging member and a dish rack member.