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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Charles R. Patzer, Columbus, OH (US);
James L. Kennedy, Columbus, OH (US);
Ellen M. Brown, Columbus, OH (US);
Charles R. Patzer, Columbus, OH (US);
James L. Kennedy, Columbus, OH (US);
Ellen M. Brown, Columbus, OH (US);
Next Future, LLC, Dublin, OH (US);
Abstract
An after-market dishwasher stats indicator has a housing and an indicator member slidable therein. The housing has left and right end openings and a rear aspect or wall to be held at the dishwasher door front and a top wall extending obliquely therefrom with a viewing window such that indicia on the indicator member is viewable through the viewing window by a user standing astride the dishwasher. The member has first and second different indicia thereon, one indicative of a clean status of the dishwasher and the other indicative of a dirty or ready to be loaded status of the dishwasher. The different indicia are separately viewable through the viewing window depending on the position of the member, such that when the rear aspect is held to the dishwasher door front, the selected indicia is viewable to a user standing astride the dishwasher door front.