Warewash rack system and warewasher with associated warewash rack system

Abstract

A ware rack system for holding lightweight wares during cleaning in a warewash machine includes a lower ware rack including a bottom wall, upright side walls and a plurality of pegs extending upward from the bottom wall, wherein a multiplicity of the pegs are tall pegs that have upper ends that are located higher than upper edges of the upright side walls. An upper ware rack may be placed inverted atop the lower ware rack to capture lightweight wares between the upper ends of the tall pegs and the bottom wall of the upper ware rack. A method of modifying a ware rack is also provided.

1 . A ware rack system for holding lightweight wares during cleaning in a warewash machine, comprising:
 a lower ware rack including a bottom wall, upright side walls and a plurality of pegs extending upward from the bottom wall, wherein a multiplicity of the pegs are tall pegs that have upper ends that are located higher than upper edges of the upright side walls.   
     
     
         2 . The ware rack system of  claim 1 , wherein at least some of the pegs are short pegs having upper ends that are located lower than upper edges of the upright side walls, wherein the lower rack comprises a first rack unit and a second rack unit, the first rack unit engaged within the second rack unit, wherein the second rack unit defines the bottom wall, the upright side wall and the short pegs, and the first rack unit defines the tall pegs. 
     
     
         3 . The ware rack system of  claim 2 , wherein the first rack unit is of wire form construction. 
     
     
         4 . The ware rack system of  claim 3 , wherein the second rack unit is of plastic construction, and the first rack unit is removably seated in the second rack unit. 
     
     
         5 . The ware rack system of  claim 3 , wherein each tall peg is defined by an inverted U-shaped wire rod portion. 
     
     
         6 . A method of modifying a ware rack that includes a bottom wall and upright side walls, the method comprising:
 utilizing a wire form rack unit that includes a wire rod base portion and a plurality of upwardly extending wire rod peg portions;   placing the wire form rack unit into the ware rack such that the plurality of upwardly extending wire rod peg portions have upper ends that are located higher than upper edges of the upright side walls.   
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein, after the placing, the base portion seats against the bottom wall. 
     
     
         8 . The method of claim  8 , wherein the ware rack includes a plurality of upwardly extending pegs and, after the placing, each upwardly extending wire rod peg portion overlies a respective one of the upwardly extending pegs. 
     
     
         9 . The method of claim  9 , wherein, after the placing, at least some of the upwardly extending pegs of the ware rack do not include any overlying wire rod peg portion.