Talk:Dish drying cabinet

Only popular in Finland?
Hi! I'm Spanish and I haven't ever seen a Spanish kitchen without this so I don't agree with "the dish draining closet is not very popular outside Finland and has mostly remained a Finnish speciality". But it isn't like in the photo, our closets have its bottom uncovered and it's always over the sink so the water falls in it. KirO (talk) 01:38, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

-- I'm also Spanish and I agree with KirO, the dish draining closet is very common in Spain. El Estudiantee (talk) 02:19, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

___ In Romania it has been very popular as well, especially in the past 20 years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.166.132.219 (talk) 19:16, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Novelty
So what exactly is the novelty or specific innovation of this invention? The article doesn't seem to ever clearly say. Letting dishes sit out to air-dry in a rack (rather than hand-drying using towels or clothes) can't possibly have only been invented in the 1940s, so the only thing I can think of is mounting the racks right above the sink. But that doesn't seem very innovative at all, so I continue to wonder... --Gwern (contribs) 01:44 9 August 2012 (GMT)

Older invention?
Finnish Wikipedia tells that there are several older patents for a dish draining closet than Gebhard's. --ilaiho (talk) 08:17, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

The Frankfurt Kitchen is from 1926 and has a draining cabinet that looks very similar to the photo in this article Udoschmitz (talk) 22:03, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Edited Google translation
In the United States Louise R Krause received a patent (U.S. 1,860,617) for a cabinet fitted with doors to be placed above the sink in May 1932. [1] Similarly, Angiolina Scheuermann, an American, received a patent (U.S. 1,733,907), for a bit smaller closet (Drainer and Depository for Dishes) already the last decade in October 1929. The cabinet plates were supported by wire bent clips, quite similarly to the Finnish dish draining closet. [2] Before them, in July 1895 Robina Wood from Scotland had received a United States patent (U.S. 542 912) for a dish draining closet, for which he had a patent (GB189410066 Improvements in and Relating to the Drying of Dishes and the Like) in the UK from 1894. [3] [4]