Rack construction for cups and glasses

Claim 1

In a rack for supporting dishware including glasses, cups and the like whereby the dishware can be held in the rack and thereby efficiently moved from place to place, stored, and transported through a dishwashing machine, said rack comprising a flat bed, said bed defining a plurality of openings for the free flow of fluids therethrough, and a gridwork, said gridwork defining openings for receiving said dishware, the improvement wherein said gridwork comprises two sets of dividers, the dividers of each set being disposed in spaced-apart parallel relationship with the dividers of one set being perpendicular to the dividers of the other set whereby a plurality of dishware receiving openings are defined by the dividers, and wherein each of said dividers comprises a relatively thin panel having a substantial vertical dimension, each panel defining a scalloped upper edge with the low points of said edges being located at intersections of respective panels and the high point of said edges being located intermediate adjacent intersections, a frame, said dividers being attached at their opposite ends to said frame, and including upstanding posts formed around the periphery of said bed, and means connecting said frame to said posts, at least one additional frame member interposed between said bed and the frame supporting said dividers, said additional frame member being supported on the posts formed around said bed, and including upstanding posts formed on said additional Frame member, openings defined by said frame and corresponding openings defined by said posts, pins extending through the respective openings for securing said frame to said posts, the openings defined by the frame having their respective bottom ends terminating adjacent the entry ends of the corresponding openings in the underlying posts of said additional frame member to provide passageways for said pins and to provide guide means during attaching of the pins to the construction.