Patent ID: 7967155
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: F24C

Abstract:
1. A rack for an appliance which is adapted to stack upon another rack, comprising; a support platform having a support frame having a frontmost wire portion, a rearmost wire portion, and opposed outermost side wire portions and a plurality of elongated support wires attached to the support frame to form a support surface extending along a plane; a plurality of downwardly depending leg sections each coupled to one of the frontmost wire portion and the rearmost wire portion, each leg section having a shoulder portion and a foot portion located below the shoulder portion, each foot portion including an upturned portion; and at least one cross member having a generally loop-shaped geometry oriented transverse to the elongated support wires and attached to an underside of the elongated support wires, the cross member being spaced a distance apart from a portion of the support frame such that a portion of the loop-shaped cross member extends a distance beyond each of the frontmost wire portion and the rearmost wire portion of the support frame, wherein each portion of the at least one loop-shaped cross member that extends a distance beyond the support frame is located vertically above a corresponding foot portion and is generally aligned along a vertical axis extending through said corresponding foot portion, and the at least one cross member cooperating with the support platform to form at least two reception areas each adapted to receive a foot portion of a superjacent rack, each leg section including a progressively widening V-shaped geometry which is configured to inhibit the depth that the foot portion is received in a respective reception area of a subjacent rack, wherein the shoulder portion is configured to support the rack on a oven rack with the support surface at a first distance from the oven rack, and wherein the foot portion is configured to support the rack on another rack with the support surface at a second distance from a support surface of the another stack rack and on a flat surface with the support surface at a third distance from the flat surface, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance and less than the third distance.