Patent ID: 8826898

Claim:
A rack for an oven appliance, the rack comprising: a metal sheet comprising a plurality of openings spaced over the metal sheet between multiple peripheral edges that are coplanar with the metal sheet; a frame comprising a pair of L-shaped portions attached along opposing peripheral edges of the metal sheet, each L-shaped portion comprising a pair of legs that are respectively horizontally-oriented and vertically-oriented, each of the pair of legs defining a slot, wherein the opposing peripheral edges of the metal sheet extend into the slot along only the horizontally-oriented leg, and wherein each L-shaped portion is positioned such that the horizontally-oriented leg extends further away from a center of the metal sheet than a vertical plane associated with the vertically-oriented leg, such that the respective peripheral edge of the metal sheet that extends along the horizontally-oriented leg of each L-shaped portion extends beyond the vertically-oriented leg; a brace positioned adjacent to the metal sheet, connected with the frame, and extending between at least two of the multiple peripheral edges of the metal sheet.