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Step stool

Granted 1 Jun 1993 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Cosco Management, Inc. · originally Cisco Systems

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Inventors: Robert A. Schwartzkopf, Roy L. Ruggles · Examiner: Alan P. Douglas · AU 293 · TC 2900

Application
483006
filed 22 Feb 1990
Publication
Not published
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US D335966
granted 1 Jun 1993

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of…

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a step stool showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side elevational view, the right side being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the tread surfaces of FIG. 2 thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top plan view, of a second embodiment, the difference being in the removal of the diagonal tread strips on each step thereof;

FIG. 8 is a bottom plan view, the difference being in the removal of the rib structure under each step thereof; and,

FIG. 9 is a perspecitve view of the first embodiment of FIGS. 1-5.

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D06/350D06/349

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