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SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2002 3:22 AM
Harold DeHart, of Durham, N.C., may just be the next Thomas...
Harold DeHart, of Durham, N.C., may just be the next Thomas Edison. He’s won a patent for a 'dining table with integral dishwasher.' It has a trap-door in the table that opens into a dishwasher underneath. In his patent, DeHart traces the legacy of his idea to a 1934 patent for a table with food trays mounted in the surface and a washing apparatus below. There were a few other attempts, mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, but DeHart maintains he has improved on all earlier patents. His dishwasher doesn’t wet the table top as some of the others did, however, his approach requires electrical, water and waste utility lines routed to the dishwasher from the floor beneath the table. During dinner, the access door in the table top is removed, and a tray connected to the inside of the dishwasher is raised until it’s flush with the table surface. Dishes can be loaded onto this tray, which is later lowered into the dishwasher. Pots, pans or big serving bowls would be loaded into the dishwasher through larger doors under the table. That’s Kids in the News. Check back next week.
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