Patent ID: 8047373

Claim:
A suspended utensil storage system, comprising: a utensil tray including a plurality of utensil compartments having solid side walls and mesh bottom surfaces having a mesh material therein, the plurality of utensil compartments including longitudinally adjacent utensil compartments with spaces therebetween; a debris collector tray underlying the utensil tray and receiving the utensil tray, the debris collector tray including opposite side walls with laterally inwardly extending supports aligned with and extending within the spaces between longitudinally adjacent utensil compartments; wherein the mesh material of the utensil compartments of the utensil tray supports utensils and includes holes sized to allow debris to fall there through into the debris collector tray for collecting the debris, and the debris collector tray including a ledge and the utensil tray includes a lip that is supported in the debris collector tray on the ledge.