Patent Publication Number: US-2006006299-A1

Title: Hidden pot holder

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS  
      A provisional patent application previously was filed for this invention, Hidden Pot Holder. The application number for this provisional application is: 60/586,879. The filling date for this application was Jul. 12, 2004.  
    
    
     BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION  
      The purpose of the Hidden Pot Holder is to make the storage of kitchen utensils simpler. The invention allows kitchen utensils such as pots, pans, etc. to be stored in a more accessible and organized way. The invention solves the problem of accessing pots and pans on the bottom of a large pile of other kitchen utensils. The invention also hides the stored utensils in a wall cavity behind concealing doors.  
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION  
      The Hidden Pot Holder contains two extendable and retractable flat planar surfaces of which hooks are permanently attached to, which allows kitchen pots and pans and other utensils to be hung. The flat planar surfaces on which the pots and other utensils hang can be retracted into a wall cavity becoming hidden behind cabinet doors. The two flat planar surfaces are attached to the vertical opposite sides of a rectangular cut wall cavity by two ball bearing full-extension sliding tracks for each surface. For each surface one track is attached to the bottom area of the surface and its adjacent side of the wall cavity and the other track is attached to the top area of the surface and its adjacent side of the wall cavity. At the side of each flat planar surface that faces the area of which the cabinet doors are placed there is an attached handle, that when pulled allows the board holding the pots and other utensils to be extended out of the wall cavity. This invention is used in such a way that when extended out of the wall cavity pots and pans and other utensils can be hung or taken off the hooks and similarly when the invention is retracted into the wall cavity the pots and pans become hidden inside the wall cavity behind cabinet doors.  
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS  
       FIG. 1 —Is a drawing to depict what the Hidden Pot Holder would look like if it was viewed from the front of the invention with the cabinet doors closed.  
       FIG. 2 —Is a drawing to depict what the Hidden Pot Holder would look like if it was viewed from the front of the invention with the cabinet doors open. This drawing shows the flat planar surfaces, hooks, handles, and ball bearing tracks attached to their adjacent wall cavities.  
       FIG. 3 —Is a drawing to depict what the Hidden Pot Holder would look like if it was viewed from the inside of the wall cavity looking at the right flat planar surface while it was extended out of the wall cavity.  
       FIG. 4 —Is a drawing to depict what the Hidden Pot Holder would look like if it was viewed from the inside of the wall cavity looking at the right flat planar surface while it was retracted into the wall cavity.  
       FIG. 5 —Is a drawing to depict what the Hidden Pot Holder would look like if it was viewed from the inside of the wall cavity looking at the left flat planar surface while it was extended out of the wall cavity.  
       FIG. 6 —Is a drawing to depict what the Hidden Pot Holder would look like if it was viewed from the inside of the wall cavity looking at the left flat planar surface while it was retracted into the wall cavity.