Patent ID: 8623150

Claim:
A method of cleaning dishware, comprising: washing and rinsing dishware in a wash area of a dishware machine while a multi-sided door, in a closed position, laterally and upwardly encloses the wash area; thereafter, while the door remains in the closed position, forcibly drawing air into a generally vertically flowing plenum from a cavity defined by the door via at least a first air inlet port disposed below a top wall of the door; thereafter: moving the door upward to an open position, which is above the closed position, to laterally expose the wash area and move the cavity upward; forcibly drawing air from the upwardly moved cavity into the plenum via at least a second air inlet port disposed below the top wall of the door when the door is in the open position, but above the top wall when the door is in the closed position; thereafter, automatically ceasing the forcible drawing in of air to the plenum; wherein a duration from a start of the forcible drawing of air from the cavity while the door remains in the closed position, to an end of the forcible drawing of air from the upwardly moved cavity is a first predetermined time period.