Patent ID: 6837235

Claim:
A coated steel wire oven rack designed to be received within an oven cavity, the coated steel wire oven rack comprising: a plurality of elongated steel wire members joined together to form an oven rack having an outer surface; the plurality of elongated steel wire members being made from a steel rod material containing from about 80 to about 99.9% by weight of iron, from about 0.001 to about 0.08% by weight of carbon and from about 0.001 to about 0.2% by weight of a carbon stabilizing transition metal selected from the group consisting of Vanadium, Tantalum, Titanium and Niobium; the plurality of elongated steel wire members being made from the steel rod material by drawing the steel rod material to form steel wire; wherein the diameter of the cross-sectional area of the steel rod material is reduced by at least about 20% when the steel rod material is drawn to form the steel wire; the outer surface of the oven rack being coated by a glass material; wherein the amount of carbon in the steel rod material, the amount of carbon stabilizing transition metal in the steel rod material and the degree to which the diameter of the cross-sectional area of the steel rod material is reduced, when the steel wire is drawn from the steel rod material, is balanced so as to prevent chipping of the glass material away from the outer surface due to the release of hydrogen gas from the steel wire members when the steel wire is either heated or cool.